Editor’s note for January 9, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
On Friday, we published two stories you may have missed:
Half a year after Washington enacted a set of laws intended to prevent products of coerced labor from entering the U.S. market, supply chains in the solar power and apparel industries are snarled up, but it’s uncertain if the Uyghurs themselves have seen any benefit.
Just after we published the piece, news broke that the United States and Japan have launched a task force to promote human rights and international labor standards in supply chains, partly driven by concerns about China’s treatment of the Uyghurs.
Chinese women’s struggle to cope with domestic violence in the U.S.
They came here wishing for a “happily-ever-after.” That’s not what happened. Junyao Yang talked to survivors of intimate partner abuse in the U.S. to learn about their struggles for safety in a strange land.
Our word of the day is Whirlwind Guo (郭旋风 Guō Xuànfēng), an old nickname for Guò Shūqìng 郭树清, the senior financial official who today said that China’s crackdown on big tech companies is over.
—Jeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief
