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dkrause on DSKHT7XVN1PROD with $$_JOB349at Beijing University. Publishing a piece such as this, in a widely respected journalthat is influential among English-speaking foreign policy circles, would almost certainlyrequire political clearance by CCP authorities.80. Michael Chase, ‘‘Chinese Suspicions and US Intentions,’’ Survival 53:3(June 2011); and John Lee, ‘‘China’s America Obsession,’’ ForeignPolicy.com, May6, 2011. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/06/china_s_america_obsession?page=0,0.81. U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Hearing on China’sNarratives on National Security Policy, written testimony of Gilbert Rozman, March10, 2011.82. AU.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Hearing on China’sNarratives on National Security Policy, written testimony of Jacqueline NewmyerDeal, March 10, 2011.83. Author unknown, ‘‘Developing a New Understanding of the CommunistParty at the Central Party School,’’ January 17, 2011. http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/01/developing-a-new-understanding-of-the-communist-party-at-a-party-school.Translation by China Digital Times (Don Weinland) and USCC staff.84. As noted in a 1998 propaganda handbook, officials should be careful whenspeaking with foreigners, ‘‘remembering that ‘insiders and outsiders are different’and to be mindful of the need for secrecy.’’ ‘‘Shandong Sheng Duiwai XuanchuanGongzuo Huibian Ziliao 1992–1998’’ (Shandong Province Foreign Propaganda WorkReference Materials 1992–1998), publisher unknown, Vol. 2 (1998), p. 1921. Thework is cited in Anne-Marie Brady, Marketing Dictatorship (Lanham, MD: Rowman& Littlefield, 2008), p. 161. For a discussion of the party’s practices of suppressinginformation on certain issues while making reports on these same issues availableto senior party officials, see He Qinglian, The Fog of Censorship: Media Control inChina (New York, NY: Human Rights in China, 2008), pp. 71–75.85. ‘‘Like communist and revolutionary parties throughout history, formed andnurtured by underground cells and violent conflict with the regimes they sought tooverthrow, the Party in China is secretive by habit and inclination.’’ RichardMcGregor, The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers (New York,NY: Harper Collins, 2010), p. 20.86. On the employment of ‘‘proactive’’ propaganda by the CCP, see DavidShambaugh, ‘‘China’s Propaganda System: Institutions, Processes and Efficacy,’’China Journal 57 (January 2007). For a discussion of the suppression of negativenews, see Ashley Esarey, ‘‘Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in ContemporaryChina’’ (Washington, DC: Freedom House Special Report, February 2006). http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/speciallreport/33.pdf.87. Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley, China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files(New York, NY: The New York Review of Books, 2003), p. 233.88. Yang Jiechi, ‘‘Strengthen Shanghai Spirit,’’ China Daily, June 15, 2011.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-06/15/content_12698267.htm.89. People’s Daily Online (in Chinese), ‘‘‘Shanghai Jingshen’ Zhangxian WuxianMeili’’ (Displaying the Limitless Charm of the ‘‘Shanghai Spirit’’), June 15, 2011.http://world.people.com.cn/GB/57507/14910318.html. Translation by USCC staff.90. Richard Weitz, ‘‘Balancer-in-Chief: China Assumes SCO Chair,’’ China Brief,July 1, 2011.91. ‘‘Astana Declaration of the 10th Anniversary of the Shanghai CooperationOrganization,’’ Shanghai Cooperation Organization statement issued in Astana,Kazakstan, June 15, 2011. http://www.sco2011.kz/en/kzsco/inform.php.92. Wang Guosheng, ‘‘Comments and Analysis on China’s Traditional Strategyof Defense,’’ Zhongguo Junshi Kexue (China Military Science) 4 (2005); and People’sDaily Online (in Chinese), ‘‘Peaceful Journey, Sowing Civilization: Commemoratingthe 600th Anniversary of the Voyages of Zheng He’’ (Heping zhi Lu, BosanWenming—Jinian Zheng He Xia Xiang 600 Zhounian), June 29, 2005. http://www.people.com.cn/GB/32306/32313/32330/3506449.html.93. See the discussion of recent PRC propaganda treatment of the Zheng Henarrative in John Dotson, ‘‘The Confucian Revival in the Propaganda Narratives ofthe Chinese Government’’ (Washington, DC: U.S.-China Economic and Security ReviewCommission, staff research report), July 20, 2011. http://www.uscc.gov/researchpapers/2011/Confucian_Revival_Paper.pdf.94. People’s Republic of China State Council Information Office, China’s NationalDefense in 2010 (government white paper on China’s defense policies) (Beijing,China: March 31, 2011). http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/31/c_13806851.htm.95. ‘‘Chen Bingde,’’ biographical entry at ChinaVitae.com. http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Chen_Bingde/summary.VerDate Nov 24 2008 13:46 Nov 10, 2011 Jkt 067464 PO 00000 Frm 00361 Fmt 6601 Sfmt 6621 G:\GSDD\USCC\2011\067464.XXX 067464