Editor’s note for Monday, August 30, 2021
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter
My thoughts today:
The season of crackdowns is only just getting going, judging from state media. Bloomberg reports:
A commentary [in Chinese] published widely in Chinese state-run media described President Xi Jinping’s regulatory crackdown as a “profound revolution” sweeping the country and warned that anyone who resisted would face punishment.
“This is a return from the capital group to the masses of the people, and this is a transformation from capital-centered to people-centered,” the commentary said, adding that it marked a return to the original intention of the Communist Party. “Therefore, this is a political change, and the people are becoming the main body of this change again, and all those who block this people-centered change will be discarded.”…
The author wrote that high housing prices and medical costs will become the next targets of the campaign…“The capital market will no longer become a paradise for capitalists to get rich overnight,” the commentary said. “The cultural market will no longer be a paradise for sissy stars, and news and public opinion will no longer be in a position worshiping Western culture.”
For details of today’s crackdowns, see our top story, which highlights one crackdown that will be popular amongst a certain group of people: Chinese parents, who have trouble keeping their kids away from computer games.
Our word of the day is:
Overuse and even addiction to online games by minors
未成年人过度使用甚至沉迷网络游戏
wèi chéngnián rén guòdù shǐyòng shènzhì chénmí wǎngluò yóuxì
—Jeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief
