Editor’s note for Wednesday, September 28, 2022

A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.

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

My thoughts today:

As everyone sensible, including me, has been saying for a number of days, rumors of a coup in Beijing have been greatly exaggerated. Xรญ Jรฌnpรญng ไน ่ฟ‘ๅนณ reappeared on state TV yesterday.

New video:

  • Lizzi Lee interviewed journalist Eliot Chen on the difficulties of purging U.S. supply chains of forced labor,
  • Lizzi also spoke to Bill Reinsch, international business chair for the CSIS and former National Trade Council president on what a recent Wall Street Journal article might have missed about U.S. export controls on sensitive technology.
  • You can see last weekโ€™s TikToks by Susan St.Denis on our webpage โ€” no need for TikTok app! If you donโ€™t mind having ByteDance in your phone, you can subscribe to our our account here.

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