Friday, January 4, 2019

Dear reader,

Our Access members newsletter later today contains details on the swine-fever-infected pigs that are washing up on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, new data on China’s economic slowdown, our regular trade war update, and much more. In the meantime, here are a few things to consider.

Earlier this week, Bloomberg journalist Peter Martin tweeted:

2019 in Chinese political anniversaries: 40 years of US-China relations: January 1

60 years since Dalai Lama fled: March 17

100 years since May 4 movement: May 4

30 years since Tiananmen: June 4

10 years since Urumqi riots: July 5

70 years of P.R.C.: October 1

20 years of Macau return: December 20

If economic slowdown and growing tensions with the U.S. and other countries weren’t enough to make the Communist Party nervous, there is nothing like a “sensitive” anniversary to prompt even tighter repression.

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Finally, a correction: In our summary of a Sixth Tone story, One retiree’s solution for solitude: nude modeling, we incorrectly rendered Wáng Sùzhōng’s name: It should be 王肃中.

—Jeremy Goldkorn and the SupChina team