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):
- Economist Brad W. Setser writes on shadow reserves: How China hides trillions of dollars of hard currency.
- Social media users are piling on a group of American fashion influencers who went to a Potemkin factory in China to promote fast-fashion app Shein.
- Cambridge professor of Chinese Management Chris Marquis talks to scholar Victor Shih about his new book, Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao’s Stratagem to the Rise.
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).
