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China’s meeting with Mahmoud Abbas wasn’t really about peace
Abbas’s recent trip to Beijing was more about asserting China’s standing in the Middle East than peace between Israel and Palestine.
‘Anticolonial friendships’: How anthropologists study Uyghurs in contemporary China
Anthropology cannot “save” the people anthropologists care about. When anthropologists do speak, it should be alongside the voices of the disenfranchised, speaking as listeners and translators.
Liu Xiaobo and his ‘monstrous crimes’
Only twice has a Nobel peace laureate died in state custody. The first time was in 1938, when German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky died in Berlin of mistreatment at the hands of his Nazi captors. The second was in the summer of 2017.
Hong Kong murders prompt discussion over reporting on LGBTQ issues
In Hong Kong, where violent acts are rare, a recent double murder has sent major shockwaves among locals and officials. It has also prompted media criticism among some in the LGBTQ community.
Blinken, Xi, Li, and much more
News briefing for June 20, 2023.
Editor’s note for June 20, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Xi met with Blinken, Li courts German businesses, Modi to visit the U.S.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing yesterday, in a bid to stabilize ties between the two superpowers. Meanwhile, China’s No. 2 official is in Berlin on a trip aimed at smoothing things over with Europe’s economic powerhouse.
China now has a lot more batteries than electric vehicles
China is still producing the world’s best batteries, but a glut of low-quality EV batteries is crowding out more advanced tech.
Laurent Hou offers an offbeat look at Beijing
“Although central Beijing is already overphotographed, this project brings a different vision,” says Hou.
With caution, Honduras begins its diplomatic relationship with Beijing
In March, Honduras switched its diplomatic ties from Taipei to Beijing, a decision that President Xiomara Castro’s administration said was purely pragmatic. For China, of course, establishing diplomatic ties wasn’t just a way to get easier access to Honduran coffee, bananas, and seafood.
Women on Xiaohongshu don’t want kids. They want this monkey plushie from IKEA.
A stuffed ape is currently the most popular toy in China. Those who make posts about it on social media are making jabs — self-aware and humorous — at the government’s request for young adults to have more children.
‘Swagger around town’ — Phrase of the Week
A Chinese executive is sacked after being caught on camera blatantly having an affair with a colleague.
Editor’s note for June 16, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Messi madness grips Beijing
Central Beijing ground to a halt yesterday ahead of Argentina’s friendly against Australia. There was only one man everyone wanted to see.
Parsing out China’s political economy
Keyu Jin, an associate professor of economics at LSE, talks about the unique Chinese political economy, emphasizing both its successes to date and how it must change to meet the challenges to come.
Editor’s note for June 15, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
A Uyghur family fled and Beijing followed, pushing for prison and extradition in Turkey and Morocco
The precarious life of a Uyghur family in exile.
U.S. semiconductor export controls might actually give China the edge
China’s semiconductor wafer fabrication companies are way behind their Western and Japanese peers. But new multilateral export controls targeting China may actually push Chinese firms to innovate their way into the big league.
China’s war on drugs: From incarceration to rehabilitation
In the 1990s, China’s inability to contain its relatively modest drug epidemic put it on the same road as America’s failed war on drugs. But then, the number of new users in China began to drop dramatically…
