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ByteDance shortens work hours and Kuaishou loses its CEO
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Editor’s note for Monday, November 1, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Xi Jinping has still not left China since January 2020, and contributed only by video at the G20 and merely wrote a letter to the COP26 climate change summit. Is he mostly being cautious about COVID-19 ahead of a CCP plenum on November 8-11?
COVID origins: China denounces inconclusive U.S. intelligence report that calls for more transparency from Beijing
The 90-day review of U.S. intelligence on COVID-19 origins, which was completed in August, was highly inconclusive and even discounted several points cited by lab-leak theory proponents, according to a newly declassified summary. Beijing did not respond to the contents of the report, which it dismissed as “political and false.”
Shanghai Disneyland locks in more than 30,000 people for testing after COVID scare on Halloween night
Pandemic control authorities locked down Disney’s biggest amusement park in China and mass tested all staff and visitors. It may have been a horrible way to spend Halloween for the people stuck in line for a swab test instead of a rollercoaster ride, but the action received widespread support on Chinese social media.
Alibaba’s silicon chip in the age of hypersonic missiles
Alibaba’s Yitian 710 chip shows how the U.S.-China-Taiwan semiconductor dance hides an increasingly unstable equilibrium.
Chinese Super League’s Hebei FC on verge of collapse
Financial woes threaten to bring down yet another club in China’s top soccer league.
Update: The pros and cons of a property tax
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Singles don’t want to mingle, they want to consume
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Editor’s note for Friday, October 29, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: No sleep for China’s regulators; Netflix announces cast list for Three-Body Problem adaptation; Evergrande averts default, again; Boeing is expected to get green light for 737 Max in China in early 2022; Chinese investors lose money on record number of first-day trades, as Hong Kong loses spot in top three listing venues; U.S. Senate votes unanimously to prevent Huawei and ZTE from receiving new equipment licenses; the Cyberspace Administration of China issues more guidance on data security reviews.
China proposes ban on telehealth and computer-assisted diagnosis
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‘The Bund’: The Hong Kong TV series that defined a generation
An iconic drama that harkens back to an era when mainland-Hong Kong relations were characterized by cultural intimacy.
Editor’s note for Thursday, October 28, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Beijing is financing “the construction of an outpost for a special forces unit of Tajikistan’s police” to counter terrorism, but it is not a military base; Foreign Minister Wang Yi calls for the international community to help Afghanistan’s development; the Cyberspace Administration of China makes another call for a “civilized internet”.
China warns that Taiwan’s push for international space presents ‘seismic risks’
Beijing is very unhappy with statements in the last two days from Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen and from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the future of the island nation that China sees as a breakaway province.
Genki Forest accidentally loses millions due to price glitch. Now it wants the money back.
China’s most fashionable beverage startup sold mineral water at a deep discount because of a website error. Should customers who bought at low prices feel obligated to return the merchandise?
Understanding China’s historic changes through informed empathy
“There is something major afoot in China right now,” says Kaiser Kuo, but single-lens analysis that lacks empathy won’t cut it in providing insight into the complexity of the changes. What The China Project has called the Red New Deal could mark the start of a new phase in Chinese history, and it deserves to be taken seriously and seen from multiple perspectives.
FBI raids HQ of Chinese company that may have hacked credit cards
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China Unbound: The implications of China’s expanding influence
Joanna Chiu’s debut book examines China’s rise in the context of the global village. What are the various tensions and conflicts arising from China’s return to international preeminence?
Editor’s note for Wednesday, October 27, 2021
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
China to finance counter-terrorism base for Tajikistan
According to new reports, China is going to build a military base in Tajikistan, and take control of another one. There is no official confirmation yet, but the move shows how much Beijing is worrying about instability from Afghanistan.
DeFi: Can decentralized finance defy China’s crypto controls?
Beijing has cracked down hard on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but China still has a thriving ecosystem of startups and entrepreneurs working on decentralized finance technology, or DeFi, based on the blockchain technology behind bitcoin.
