Editor’s Note for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.

editor's note from jeremy goldkorn, editor in chief of supchina

My thoughts today:

Even as China becomes more and more hostile to many liberal values, it is moving in the opposite direction of some European countries and some U.S. states: Beijing just lowered the minimum age for gender reassignment surgery. Click through to our new Queer China column for more, or see a short summary below in todayโ€™s newsletter.

Chinaโ€™s diplomatic outreach to Pacific island nations isnโ€™t going completely smoothly, we report in todayโ€™s newsletter below, or click here to read on our website.

But of course, today’s news is tomorrow’s fish and chip paper, as Gerard DeBenedetto notes in his latest A-Share Intelligence column on investing in Chinese listed companies

Our word of the day is Queer China (้…ทๅ„ฟไธญๅ›ฝ kรน er zhลngguรณ), the name of our new column about LGBTQ life and news in China.