Editor’s note for Thursday, September 24, 2020
A note from the editor of today's The China Project Access newsletter.
My thoughts today:
TikTok, TikTok, the clock is running: The Wall Street Journal reports:
At a hearing on Thursday, Judge Carl Nichols gave the Trump administration until Friday afternoon to either postpone the download ban for TikTok or defend the proposed ban in court. The judge said the planned download ban could block hundreds of thousands of new TikTok users a day from signing up, potentially causing harm to the company.
Judge Nichols said that if the federal government doesnโt announce a decision to voluntarily postpone the download banย by 2:30 p.m. on Friday, he would hold a hearing on Sunday morning to determine whether to temporarily halt the ban.
Weโll have an update on this in tomorrowโs newsletter.ย
In Kashgar, Washington Post reporters observedย that โnone of the men in this Muslim city have beards and none of the women wear the hijab.โ This is one of the striking details in several media reports on Chinaโs ongoing construction of detention facilities in Xinjiang โ see our top storyย for more. ย
Our word of the dayย is the deeply indebted real estate developer China Evergrande Groupย (ๆๅคง้ๅข hรฉngdร jรญtuรกn).
โJeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief
