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WTA calls for China to investigate Peng allegation
Also in this week’s China Sports Column: The Chinese men’s national team face a nearly impossible task to qualify for next year’s Qatar World Cup following a disappointing draw against Oman.
Editor’s note for Friday, November 12, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: The Chinese Communist Party has wrapped up its Sixth Plenum, ending in a communiqué and the announcement (but not yet release) of the Party’s third-ever “historical resolution.”
Xi Jinping’s greatest hits, so far
Bloomberg, a news service owned by a New York billionaire, ranks Xi Jinping, chairman of everything.
Chinese grad student in Chicago killed in shooting
According to the University of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department (CPD), a 24-year-old graduate Chinese student Shaoxiong Zheng from Chengdu was shot and killed in what seems to have been a robbery on Tuesday afternoon.
‘We will not stop’: Students of Nanjing University protest school’s handling of sexual harassment case
At one of China’s leading universities, students are finding ways to protest inaction against sexual harassment despite the authorities trying to shut them down.
Chinese fans leave behind government’s video game bashing to celebrate esports team’s world title
Coming just months after the Chinese government made strict new rules limiting under 18s from playing computer games more than three hours a week, a Chinese esports team won the League of Legends World Championship. Fans celebrated in the streets and even state-owned media offered congratulations.
Editor’s note for Tuesday, November 9, 2021
A note from the editor of today’s The China Project Access newsletter.
Evergrande enters another payment grace period as Fed warns of China real estate risk
China’s highly indebted property developer Evergrande continues to hop from one grace period to another on payments for various bonds, narrowly avoiding default. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve has raised concerns about risks from “highly indebted corporations, especially in the real estate sector” in China.
After crackdowns, Beijing to issue licenses to resume after-school tutoring
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Editor’s note for Monday, November 8, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: The China Project’s crowdfunding campaign; Chinese activists’ mobile health codes are showing red alerts, according to Hong Kong’s Stand News; recommendation for the Slow Chinese newsletter.
China prepares to write Xi Jinping into history
The sixth plenum, a top Communist Party leadership meeting that started in Beijing today, is expected to approve a resolution that codifies General Secretary Xi Jinping’s image as an indispensable figure in Chinese history and governance, and set the stage for his “third term” that would begin at the 2022 Party Congress.
Zhang Weili falls in split decision at UFC 268
Rose Namajunas vs. Zhang Weili 2 went very differently than the first fight, when Namajunas surprised Zhang with an early knockout.
Editor’s note for Friday, November 5, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Jack Ma might soon sell the South China Morning Post to a Chinese state-owned company; foreign journalists and foreign residents in Hong Kong are frustrated with declining freedoms; considering the future of “COVID zero” and India-China relations.
The rise of Manner Coffee
In Shanghai, coffee has become an addiction. Can Manner Coffee expand to become China’s first major Starbucks rival?
Editor’s note for Thursday, November 4, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: How the beloved rural vlogger Li Ziqi become just another player in the platform economy — caught between the profit-making machine of social media and the shifting rhetoric of Chinese Communist Party politics.
China’s fourth Delta spike spreads to 19 regions, tests ‘COVID zero’ policy
With exactly three months to go until the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, health officials in the capital and elsewhere are taking extreme measures to quash the latest Delta-driven spike in COVID-19. How long will China hold out as the last “COVID zero” country?
China’s leading LGBTQ advocacy group deletes social media accounts, appears to be in jeopardy
Civil society organizations in China have been on the retreat for some time, and the past year has been particularly hard on LGBTQ groups. Today, one of the country’s most prominent advocates for sexual minorities shut down its online channels.
Who is the real Wang Huning?
Wang Huning is the most important political theorist in Xi Jinping’s China. But what kind of ideology does this man, who ascended to the Politburo Standing Committee after decades of advising different CCP leaders, actually believe in?
The wild, wonderful (and very queer) world of Chinese radio dramas
In China, overt depictions of same-sex relationships are banned from mainstream media platforms. But there’s one space where these stories are allowed to be told.
Censors go nuclear as tennis player’s MeToo allegations against top official go viral
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai accused former vice premier Zhang Gaoli of forcing her into a sexual relationship, sending censors into overdrive. Feminist activist Lü Pin told The China Project that “while it’s too soon to tell the long-term impact of her story, it has already generated lots of conversations among people and made them think.”
