Editor’s note for Monday, November 8, 2021

My thoughts today:

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Chinese activists’ mobile health codes are showing red alerts, forcing them to cancel plans to travel, to start legal proceedings, or to visit imprisoned relatives, reports (in Chinese) independent — and amazingly still surviving! — Hong Kong website Stand News.

It’s sadly predictable: In February 2020, I wrote a short piece titled: “The coming biosecurity state — How the coronavirus will strengthen China’s surveillance state.”

Here is a fantastic resource if you’re learning Chinese: The Slow Chinese newsletter by Andrew Methven, “a collection of Chinese words, phrases, idioms and slang to help you maintain and improve your Chinese language skills, and keep on top of the latest language trends in China.”

Our word of the day is The third historical resolution (第三次历史性决议 dì sān cì lìshǐ xìng juéyì).

—Jeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief