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U.S. poised to ban all Xinjiang products unless proven to not be made with Uyghur forced labor
After over a year of deliberations, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act has passed both the House and Senate in the U.S. Congress. President Biden is expected to sign the bill into law soon. Here’s what it would do.
DJI to be blacklisted by U.S. Treasury Department
The U.S. Treasury Department is reportedly set to announce a ban on investment in eight Chinese companies, including DJI, the world-leading commercial drone manufacturer.
SenseTime postpones Hong Kong IPO after more U.S. sanctions
Chinese AI giant SenseTime postponed a planned $767 million IPO in Hong Kong after a U.S. Treasury Department blacklisting. It was the second round of U.S. sanctions placed on the company, after it was accused in 2019 of developing facial recognition software targeting Uyghurs.
Editor’s note for Wednesday, December 8, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Australia, Britain, and Canada join the U.S. in a “diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing 2022 Olympics.
U.S. announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022 Olympics
Team USA will compete in the Winter Olympics in China, but the Biden administration will not send any officials to Beijing in protest of human rights abuses, particularly in Xinjiang. China called the move a “blatant political provocation.”
Editor’s note for Tuesday, November 30, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Is Airbnb violating U.S. sanctions with listings in Xinjiang?; the U.S. is reportedly looking to improve its airfields in Guam and Australia with an eye on China.
Solomon Islands leader blames ‘other powers’ for violent Chinatown protests
The South Pacific nation of fewer than 700,000 people remains divided over a 2019 decision to switch diplomatic ties from Taiwan to China. That is likely one of many factors in recent violent protests, but Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare insisted it is “the only issue” and that the violence had been “encouraged by other powers” that don’t like China.
Biden-Xi meeting aftermath: A prisoner swap, and a search for ‘strategic stability’
Three major outcomes of the Biden-Xi meeting are becoming clearer: A journalist visa thaw, nuclear-arms talks of some type, and an apparent prisoner swap involving China lifting an exit ban on one American, while seven Chinese citizens were deported from the U.S.
Biden-Xi meeting: No breakthrough, but a possible journalist visa thaw
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s virtual meeting yesterday evening appears to have been relatively friendly and promises more stability for the U.S.-China relationship. There were no breakthroughs, but Chinese media reported that an agreement had been reached to issue journalist visas, starting with the U.S. side.
Editor’s note for Monday, November 15, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Expectations are low for the Xi-Biden virtual meeting; a Chinese citizen journalist uploads a YouTube video of buildings in Xinjiang that appear to be detention facilities; Malaysian hip hop singer Namewee appears on Taiwanese state media Taiwan Plus to talk about his hit satirical ballad about over-sensitive Chinese nationalists, “Fragile.”
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.
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.
Editor’s note for Tuesday, October 12, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Xi Jinping dials in to a UN meeting on biodiversity and announces major initiatives, including the establishment of China’s first batch of national parks; Harvard’s Chinese language program has relocated from Beijing to Taipei.
Xi Jinping and Joe Biden to meet later this year
The news of an expected virtual meeting came on the same day as a six-hour in-person meeting in Zurich between top U.S. and Chinese officials, after which both sides released statements assuring the world that they are being responsible.
Explaining China’s surge in warplane activity in the Taiwanese ‘air defense zone’
Some are alarmed by the number of Chinese military planes that flew near Taiwan over the weekend. But Taiwan’s ADIZ (air defense identification zone) is not the same as its sovereign airspace: there have been no PLA jets over Taiwanese land, a fact that has been lost in some of the breathier news coverage.
Biden’s trade chief presses China to fulfill Trump agreement pledges, signals little change in tariffs
Does the Biden administration have its own China trade strategy, or is it just “Trump with allies”? U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai gave a speech on China that recalled Trump’s tactics: castigating “state-centered” economics while demanding that Beijing direct more purchases of American goods, and offering both fig leaves and threats on tariffs.
China gives hero’s welcome to Meng Wanzhou, freed in apparent prisoner swap with Canadian hostages
The U.S. deal that allowed Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to leave Canada and escape extradition was swiftly followed by China’s release of two Canadian detainees, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. The apparent prisoner swap resolved a pressure point in U.S.-China relations, but only heightened concerns about China’s “hostage diplomacy.”
China opposes U.S. sanctions on Ethiopia and Afghanistan as humanitarian crises worsen
Since mid-August, flows of foreign aid have been interrupted to Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region and to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The U.S. has threatened sanctions to try to pressure a resolution to the Ethiopia conflict, and is reluctant to lift restrictions on the Taliban. China has objected to all foreign sanctions, calling them unilateral interference.
What the U.S. got out of China engagement through the S&ED
Prior to the Trump administration, top government officials from the world’s two largest economies used to meet annually in a massive forum. Susan Thornton, Rorry Daniels, and Daniel Jasper appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss a new study that pushes back on the view — now popular in Washington — that the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) was unproductive.
After calling Xi, Biden considers pressuring China over trade, Taiwan
A day after Joe Biden had an apparently amicable phone call with Xi Jinping, the Biden administration was reported to be considering multiple moves that would strain U.S.-China relations.
