MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT, XINJIANG

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SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT, XINJIANG
RIOT, STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC DIALOGUE PREVIEW

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Editorial Quotes
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1. SECRETARY CHU AND LOCKE VISIT

"China and the U.S. should face the climate challenge together"

Guangdong 21st Century Publishing Company Ltd.'s business newspaper
21st Century Business Herald (21Shiji Jingji Baodao)(07/16): "The
constructive meaning of Secretary Chu and Secretary Locke's China
visits is that differences have been put aside and China and the
U.S. are seeking a way out of the climate issue. Both countries
want to protect their competence which is why agreement is hard to
reach. The critical issues of whether the two countries can
transform the crisis of climate change into an opportunity are: the
ability of the two countries to develop jointly new clean energy
markets while no longer protecting the old, polluting economic
development model. The traditional means used to protect competence
are trade barriers. If the U.S. implements a carbon tariff,
traditional polluting enterprises will be safe while the opportunity
to stimulate renewable energy industry will be lost. Over-criticism
of Chinese products that they are bad for the environment is
overlooking the potential of China's new energy industry. Since
President Obama took office, it has been the major breakthrough for
global climate negotiations that the U.S. has taken responsibility
for emission decrease. The U.S. should realize that the solution to
shared climate concerns is broad cooperation on clean energy rather
than another round of trade barriers."


2. XINJIANG RIOT

"Rabiya [Kabeer] wants to seek help from the Dalai [Lama]"

The official Communist Party international news publication Global
Times (Huanqiu Shibao)(07/16): "A letter from the World Uyghur
Congress has been publicized by the Dalai [Lama], seeking his help.
Chinese experts indicate that it is ridiculous that the separatists
would believe they can break apart China's territory by making up a
country's name and asking for some help from the West. In fact,
they know it will be hard to make their dream become a reality.
Their real goal is to produce chaos since chaos in China meets the
West's interests and can help them to continue to live in the [minds
of the] West. China should also crack down on those Western leaders
at the same time that they suppress Xinjiang independence followers.
Rabiya intended to take Dalai as the example, copying the Tibetan
independence followers' methods, to conduct separation activities.
The two groups of independence followers have had the more obvious
trend of getting closer after the 7/5 incident. Xinjiang
independence followers have had much smaller influence in the world
than Tibet separatists. They have tried every measure to increase
its influence. Chinese scholars called on a thorough investigation
of these methods. Like President Bush said after the 9/11 incident,
whoever stands against us is our enemy. China should indicate that
the Westerners and Western media who stand at the side of terrorists
harming Chinese people's lives are our enemies. The Dalai's low
profile indicates he is assessing the situation. It is possible
that he will make moves later."


3. STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC DIALOGUE PREVIEW

"High technology trade and carbon tariff will be on top of the
S&ED's agenda"

The Shanghai-based Shanghai Media Group (SMG) publication, China
Business News (Diyi Caijing)(07/16): "Zhou Shijian, a senior
research fellow of the Center for U.S.-China Relations at Tsinghua
University slightly jokingly said, "It's better for China to buy $1
trillion of technology than $1 trillion of U.S. treasury bonds. We
can also ask the U.S. to maintain a stable U.S. dollar," Zhou said.
The prospect of a large clean energy market in China is an
opportunity that the U.S. must not overlook and that the U.S. could
use to simulate the real economy's recovery. Europe is also seeking
a larger Chinese market in clean energy and high technology, which
has also increased China's negations chip with the U.S. Since the
carbon tariff issue has arisen, China's attitude has been clear that
trade issues can't be bounded together with climate change issues.
The carbon tariff is trade protection behavior in the name of
environmental protection. It will disturb the international trade
order and trigger a trade war. Associate Professor in International
Trade at the University of International Business and Economics
(UIBE),Cui Fan pointed that, America's motivation for a "carbon
tariff" comes from their highly developed manufacturing areas.
Thus, the carbon tariff has the strong purpose of trade protection.
But both Secretary Chu and Secretary Locke did not mention carbon
tariffs in public during their visit. The visit aims at making
contacts with China. Thus their comments will be 'artful.' The
result of negotiation might be: in the end, the main developing

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countries including China may take on duties of reasonably
quantified emission, decreasing emissions, in exchange for the
technological support of developed countries and their promise for
not implementing carbon tariffs."

GOLDBERG