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John Kennedy

China abroad | China at home
good morning beijing. Another day to channel Bill Clinton and avoid inhaling, pollution still high twitter.com/niubi/status/2…
	— Bill Bishop (@niubi) January 13, 2013
Writer Li Chengpeng returned to his hometown Chengdu Saturday to sign copies of his new book, "The Whole World Knows", a collection of essays, only to be told beforehand by domestic security police that he would not be allowed to address the crowd, speak with fans, or follow up with a Q&A session. In response, Li appeared wearing a mouth mask and a t-shirt on which he had written, "I love you all."
Yesterday, Li returned to Beijing for another book signing, this time greeted by a very long line of readers, a punch in the head, and a threat from one radical leftist in the form of a kitchen knife.
New Tang Dynasty TV has video of the shouting after Li was struck and his would-be interlocutor briefly detained by readers. Later Sunday, both Li's assailant and the knife-carrying man had their names and other personal information spread around online.
Author #Li ChengPeng new book launch, neither him nor his guests allowed to speak a word... #magic realism China twitter.com/Liangyanr/stat…
	— Yanr (@Liangyanr) 1月 12, 2013

From Weibo, the insanely long line at Li Chengpeng's book signing event twitter.com/Yuxin_Gao/stat…
	— Helen Gao (@Yuxin_Gao) 1月 13, 2013

"Li Chengpeng 李承鹏's book signing is so dramatic this tine around. Our 'People's War' has begun." "@gaodongmei: 李大眼这次签售好有戏剧性，我们的人民战争开始了。"
	— Yaxue Cao (@YaxueCao) 1月 13, 2013

Another incident is born: Li Chengpeng 李承鹏 attacked at book-signing site in Beijing.
	— Yaxue Cao (@YaxueCao) 1月 13, 2013

Weibo: two incidents happened during #LiChengPeng new book launch in BeiJing. One guy hit him on face and another threw a knife at him..#李承鵬
	— Yanr (@Liangyanr) 1月 13, 2013

Man who threw a knife at Li Chengpeng 李承鹏 didn't appear to mean harm. But Li was indeed punched by another man youtube.com/watch?v=5vuqUq…
	— Yaxue Cao (@YaxueCao) 1月 13, 2013
China abroad
Bloomberg
	-- China Mulls Trial Program for Individuals Investing Overseas The People’s Bank of China will proactively prepare for the trial of its qualified domestic individual investor program, it said in a statement on its website yesterday, without giving further details. The central bank lists the so-called QDII2 initiative as one of its major goals for 2013.
China Daily
	-- China 'needs say' on investment rules Commerce Minister Chen Deming said in late December that FDI flowing to China will reach $110 billion in 2012. Meanwhile, the non-financial ODI of China, the world's fifth-largest nation in terms of outbound investment, will surpass $70 billion in 2012.
China Policy Institute Blog
	-- Don’t forget about Central Asia: Local voices on China-Central Asian relations Central Asia is also the region where China established its first international organization – the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) – with Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The SCO, officially devoted to further regional cooperation on security matters, is assessed by China analysts as the “new model of regional cooperation” and a “case study of new thinking in China’s foreign policy”.
Diplomatic Courier
	-- China’s Dangerous Game: Resource Investment and the Future of Africa June 20, 2006, was an important day for Angola. Amid the diplomatic pomp and handshakes of an official visit, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opened the Luanda General Hospital and had his picture taken peering into a microscope, while surrounded by officials in suits and medics in white smocks...Four years later the hospital was in imminent danger of collapse.
East Asia Forum
	-- Coming to terms with Asia 'The pivot appeared to reinforce a formula that, crudely put, ran thus: Americans would make the peace; Asians would make the money. Accordingly, if the actual purpose of Obama’s pivot could be summarised in a single word, the word is inclusion, in terms of both security and economy’.
Jose L. Machinea
	-- Is China Enough? For many countries in Latin America, demand from China has been essential to maintaining high GDP growth rates over the last decade. But will Chinese demand for commodities be enough to sustain high prices for the region’s exports in the coming years?
New York Times
	-- Chinese Player Breaks New Ground at Australian Open The player in question is the quick and diminutive Wu Di, who is also the first Chinese man to play singles in any Grand Slam tournament in the 45-year-old Open era. 
Verge
	-- The Chinese Electronics Show: can China's biggest brands buy their way into America? Huawei, Hisense, Changhong. These names are unfamiliar to Americans for now, but in a few years they will be as synonymous with consumer electronics as Sony and Samsung. That’s the party line out of China, at least, where major electronics makers seem to have simultaneously decided that this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas would be their coming-out party.
 
China at home
Apple Daily
	-- 聲援《南周》 傳10人遭軟禁 Ten people have been placed under house arrest for participating in support protests outside the offices of Southern Weekly.
Australian
	-- Age the issue in China press freedom fight The first edition of Southern Weekend since the strike published an article that quoted a People's Daily editorial this week backing censorship. But it added that China's media regulations needed to move with the times and recognise the growing role of the internet.
Boston Globe
	-- What China Watches Who produces CCTV’s news, and what constraints do they face? In “Two Billion Eyes,” published recently by The New Press, Ying Zhu, a professor of media culture at City University of New York, offers a rare inside look at the journalists of CCTV, who work under intense political and financial pressures.
Chachin Ain't Easy
	-- Li Cheng Peng Book Signing in Chengdu As he sat down to sign his book, he donned a black gag and the crowd roared. Several young people came with their own gags. “He is too famous to touch,” said a girl named Yueling. “I bought three of his books just to support his cause and keep him free to speak.”
China Money Podcast
	-- Chen Zhiwu: Be Prepared For A Fiscal Crisis In China Within Three Years For 2013, the geopolitical risk may surprise people, especially given the noise from Japan and China over the disputed islands. Such hot button geopolitical factors tend to be underestimated by financial market participants. So I'm personally concerned for its impact on the economy.
Harvard Business Review
	-- Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. These aren't controversial production-side subsidies (of the kind that have been challenged as contravening international trade agreements) but rather incentivizing domestic subsidies intended to help Chinese citizens and organizations to purchase solar systems at an affordable price.
Free Li Bifeng!
	-- Li Bifeng’s story, told by Liao Yiwu "The next morning, a Chinese soldier used one end of a long rope to tie up both of my hands and connect the other end with the back of a tractor. Just like that, I ran after the tractor on the winding mountain path, like a trafficked slave.”
New York Times
	-- As China's Economy Revives, So Do Fears of Inflation Yet the pace of China’s expansion may not be fast enough to do much for the rest of the world. China’s imports are growing less than half as fast as its exports, making it hard for China to become the locomotive to pull the global economy out of its half-decade funk. And overall growth is not rebounding to previous levels.
Patrick Chovanec
	-- What Causes Revolutions? The greatest challenge facing China’s leaders is how — or whether — a fundamentally closed political system (rule by an elite) can cope with the dramatically more open economy and society that present-day China has become.  That’s why they’re reading Tocqueville.
Science
	-- Little Emperors: Behavioral Impacts of China’s One-Child Policy We document that China's One-Child Policy, one of the most radical approaches to limiting population growth, has produced significantly less trusting, less trustworthy, more risk-averse, less competitive, more pessimistic, and less conscientious individuals.


Liberal writer Li Chengpeng was punched and threatened with a knife at his Beijing book-signing event yesterday

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Readers took to Sina Weibo, where Li has a huge following, and quickly dug up the names and other private details of the two men.


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Morning Clicks | Liberal writer Li Chengpeng was punched and threatened with a knife at his Beijing book-signing event yesterday

Readers took to Sina Weibo, where Li has a huge following, and quickly dug up the names and other private details of the two men.