Editor’s note for June 16, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Dear reader,
This week, as Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 turned 70, his government welcomed Bill Gates and football champion Lionel Messi to Beijing. Read all about it below.
Our Phrase of the Week is: swagger around town (招摇过市 zhāoyáo guòshì), a saying that is more than two thousand years old and has been used on the Chinese internet over the last week to discuss a scandal in which an executive at a state-owned company was caught on camera blatantly having an affair with a colleague.
