Editor’s Note for Monday, June 6, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Some Hongkongers tried to commemorate June 4 over the weekend, in tiny, almost private protests. We just published a report from Victoria Park and environs by Trevor Tong that gives a sense of the melancholy mood in Hong Kong.
Wonders never cease: Niall Ferguson, a pugnacious Scottish historian โ much loved by Republican Americans who generally prefer bombing or exploitative trade deals as a means of dealing with the non-Western world โ has published an article urging Joe Biden to take a dovish policy on China.
Meanwhile, I have to agree with this piece by former top China guy at the CIA, Christopher Johnson: Rumors that Xรญ Jรฌnpรญng ไน ่ฟๅนณ is losing his grip on power are greatly exaggerated.
The Sinologia Conference is a student-organized symposium supported by The China Project, featuring papers by five young scholars working in political science or applied history, a keynote by Cheng Li of the Brookings Institute, and Sinica Podcast host Kaiser Kuo as discussant. Click here to participate on June 10.
China sent three astronauts to its space station yesterday, and so our word of the day is:
The beginning of permanent Chinese habitation in space.
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