Inflection EP10: More Xinjiang Lies + a Closer Look at China’s Infrastructure

Week of July 26-30, 2021

Inflection is a weekly show featuring Angelo Giuliano and Brian Berletic, discussing recent headlines and in-depth discussion of topics shaping the shift from West to East and unipolarism to multipolarism.

This week we talk about the Associated Press’ smear piece on China’s security policies in Xinjiang province - a smear piece that contradicts its own reporting from 2017 when Xinjiang constituted a threat to not only China’s national security, but global security.

We also go in-depth on China’s infrastructure and how Beijing’s approach differs from the West - what it means for China and what it means for China’s Belt & Road partners.

News:

AP - Room for 10,000: Inside China’s largest detention center (2021):
https://apnews.com/article/business-religion-china-only-on-ap-f89c20645e69208a416c64d229c072de
AP - AP Exclusive: Uighurs fighting in Syria take aim at China (2017):
https://apnews.com/article/syria-ap-top-news-riots-international-news-china-79d6a427b26f4eeab226571956dd256e
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Funded by the US Government) - Foreign Fighters in Iraq and Syria, Where do they Come From?:
https://www.rferl.org/a/foreign-fighters-syria-iraq-is-isis-isil-infographic/26584940.html
Radio Free Asia (Funded by the US Government) - Xinjiang Authorities Confiscate ‘Extremist’ Qurans From Uyghur Muslims (2017):
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/qurans-05252017142212.html
Washington Post - Saudi prince denies Kushner is ‘in his pocket’ (2018):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/saudi-prince-denies-kushner-is-in-his-pocket/2018/03/22/701a9c9e-2e22-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html
LA Times - In China, rise of Salafism fosters suspicion and division among Muslims (2016):
https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-saudi-arabia-20160201-story.html

Main Topic:

Hitachi - China’s City of the Future: Xiong’an New Area:
https://www.hitachi.com/rev/archive/2021/r2021_01/gir/index.html
ABC News Australia - A mega dam on the Great Bend of China:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-25/chinas-plan-to-build-mega-dam-on-yarlung-tsangpo-brahmaputra/100146344
https://jamestown.org/program/beijing-boosts-its-position-as-a-himalayan-hegemon-through-hydropower/
Railway Technology - China launches first fully electrified bullet train in Tibet:
https://www.railway-technology.com/news/china-electrified-bullet-train-tibet/
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1216337.shtml
Reuters - China unveils 600 kph maglev train - state media:
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-unveils-600-kph-maglev-train-state-media-2021-07-20/
Statista - Global investments on the construction and maintenance of infrastructure as share of GDP in 2018, by country:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/566787/average-yearly-expenditure-on-economic-infrastructure-as-percent-of-gdp-worldwide-by-country/
Carl Zha on city of Chongqing. Build road/railway infrastructure first, then build the city around it:
https://twitter.com/carlzha/status/1342832155710275584?lang=en
CNN - Xiaomi has Samsung in its sights after overtaking Apple in smartphone sales:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/16/tech/xiaomi-smartphone-app-intl-hnk/index.html

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