Let’s continue to explore the under-reported sides of news this week.
Jingjing’s Highlights in This Week
1. Full text: Communique of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
“The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China concluded its third plenary session on Thursday with a communique issued. The following is the full text of the communique…"
2. Graphics: Key takeaways from the third plenum
“By 2035, we will have finished building a high-standard socialist market economy in all respects, further improved the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, generally modernized our system and capacity for governance and basically realized socialist modernization.”
3. Reform resolution is the most important outcome of third plenum
“Promoting Chinese modernization faces many complex issues, necessitating further deepening reform comprehensively to better adapt the relations of production to the productive forces, the superstructure to the economic base, and national governance to social development.”
4. China has surpassed the US in daily dietary protein available to its population
It's an indicator of modern quality of life, and some commentators & politicians in the West thought it was impossible to achieve.
What You May Have Missed This Week
1. Politico - Trump + Vance = ‘Tariffs are coming’
“Donald Trump’s pick for VP is a China hawk who has made criticism of Chinese trade and financial policies a key part of his political brand. That means J.D. Vance could become the trade warrior-in-chief in a second Trump administration.”
2. Biden Appears To Forget Name of ‘Black Man’ Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in BET Interview
“President Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of his own Secretary of Defense on Wednesday, referring to Lloyd Austin as the “Black man” in an interview with Black Entertainment Television (BET).”
3. OpenAI unveils cheaper small model GPT-4o mini, less energy-intensive
“ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Thursday it was launching GPT-4o mini, a cost-efficient small AI model aimed at making its technology more affordable and allowing the startup to target a broader pool of customers.”
4. BreakThrough News - Why is NATO Taking Aim at China? That’s Not in the North Atlantic
“Last week NATO held its annual summit in Washington D.C., where representatives from the alliance laid out its political and military priorities for the upcoming year: Billions more to Ukraine and preparing for a war with China. This week, Amanda and KJ discuss what came out of this summit, NATO’s accusation that China is ‘enabling’ Russia in its war in Ukraine, and the fallacy of NATO as a ‘defensive’ alliance.”
5. Inside China Business - The US is trying to kill China's tech industry. We are making them stronger
“The United States and our allies have places heavy sanctions and export restrictions against Chinese tech companies, most notably Huawei. These export bans have not merely failed to achieve their objectives of slowing down China's tech industry; they have supercharged Chinese tech instead.”
6. 2024 Paris Olympic Village officially opens to welcome first athletes
“The Olympic Village of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris officially opened on Thursday to welcome its first inhabitants. Delegations of Australia, Brazil, Argentina and Kenya have arrived at the village.”
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I love these "What You May Have Missed This Week" articles, Jingjing! You nicely summarize information that would otherwise bypass me.