Editor’s note for June 29, 2023

A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.

Dear reader:

Today’s newsletter is jam-packed, so let me just draw your attention to a few highlights (scroll down for summaries or click through to The China Project for the details):

And then there is China’s new rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service, which gives us our Word of the Day: Guowang or National Network (国网 guówǎng).