Editor’s note for Monday, August 24, 2020
A note from the editor of today's The China Project Access newsletter.
My thoughts today:
I am going to stop making pessimistic predictions in these newsletters, but Iโll continue to highlight the work of other pessimists:
- Mohan Malik, author of China and India: Great Power Rivals writes: โWith Cold War 2.0 intensifying, revanchist and irredentist tendencies growing, and major economies decoupling, the outbreak of a conflict either in the disputed Himalayas and/or in the Western Pacific cannot be ruled out. Welcome to the post-Wuhan world disorder.โ
- Celebrity historian and erstwhile promotor of the โChimericaโ concept Niall Ferguson has a new pieceย warning that โJoe Biden could end up being a wartime president.โ
On August 27, we are hosting a live Sinica Podcastย about Chinaโs goal of eradicating poverty by the end of 2020: is the goal reachable in the next 129 days. Register for free hereย to attend the podcast virtually, or click here for a new government websiteย (in Chinese) that has a countdown clock to the end of poverty on December 31.
The China Project Womenโs Conferenceย is going virtual this year and will be held on September 9 and 10. ACCESS members can attend the conference portion on September 9 for free and can get a 60% discount on tickets to the gala portion on September 10. Use the promo code WC20ACCESS when registering to receive your The China Project Access benefits.
Our word of the dayย is coronavirus vaccine emergency use: ๆฐๅ ็ซ่็ดงๆฅไฝฟ็จ xฤซnguฤn yรฌmiรกo jวnjรญ shวyรฒng.
โJeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief
