Editor’s Note for Monday, November 28, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
My thoughts today:
What will happen in China next? That is the question everyone is asking. I think the answer is quite simple: The Chinese Communist Party is going to coerce and co-opt as many people as it can into supporting the status quo. And, based on every crisis the CCP has had since 1949, the Party will probably succeed.
But all autocracies are stable, until suddenly one day they aren’t.
Based on the last 70-odd years of Chinese history, I’d bet that the Communist Party will survive. Based on the few thousand years before that, I’d bet they won’t. But their demise might take another 100 years.
We have a summary of breaking news from China in our top story below, and also a video interview on the whole situation with University of Cambridge Professor William Hurst with Lizzi Lee.
Our word of the day is white paper revolution (白纸革命 bái zhǐ gémìng)
—Jeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief
