Editor’s note for Thursday, September 17, 2020
A note from the editor of today's The China Project Access newsletter.
On Wednesday, September 30, The China Project is hosting an event to officially launch a new podcast, China Corner Office, hosted by Christopher Marquis. It will focus on interviewing business leaders on how they have navigated doing business with and in China.
My thoughts today:
โSay what you wantย about the Chinese, but there’s no denying they are damned good at getting stuff done,โย says Eric Olanderย of the China-Africa Project:
The sight of a big beautiful new train on freshly laid tracksย in Lagos yesterday was something to behold.
The Chinese-financed and constructed Lagos to Ibadan standard gauge railway made its maiden voyage and generated a huge amount of excitement that, after years of planning and delays, Nigeria finally has a modern railway of its own.
โXinjiang has become a successful exampleย of practicing international labor and human rights standards in underdeveloped areas with large populations of ethnic minorities,โ according to a white paper released (in Englishย and Chinese) by the State Council Information Office.
The white paper comes after several weeks of sustained international criticism of China for its mass detention of Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities. The latest: Today, the Telegraph reports that British MPs have begun an investigation into the detention camps.
Our word of the dayย is Wicked Pandaย (้ชๆถ็็ซ xiรฉ รจ xiรณngmฤo).
โJeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief
