Editor’s note for July 11, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Dear reader:
Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 visited Moscow in March for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine. He told Valdimir Putin in a televised farewell from the door of the Kremlin: “Right now there are changes — the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years — and we are the ones driving these changes together.”
Since then, senior officials have continued to meet frequently: China’s defense minister, General Lǐ Shàngfú 李尚福, visited Moscow in April and met his Russian counterpart as well as Putin. In May, China and Russia inked a slew of economic agreements during a meeting in Beijing between Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chinese Premier Lǐ Qiáng 李强.
Subscriber Carl Mitcham emailed me yesterday to say that we could “use more criticism of the U.S. to balance the often subtle criticism of China as not being truthful.” He was referring referring to my statement Janet Yellen “claimed that she and U.S. President Joe Biden ‘do not see the relationship between the U.S. and China through the frame of great power conflict.’” The comment should, of course, have been: Yellen “claimed, without evidence…”
Correction: The pinyin for yesterday’s Word of the Day — The broad Pacific Ocean is vast enough to embrace both China and the United States (宽广的太平洋两岸有足够空间容纳中美两个大国) should have been: “kuānguǎng de tàipíngyáng liǎng’àn yǒu zúgòu kōngjiān róngnà zhōng měi liǎng gè dàguó.”
Today’s Word of the Day is: Battery recycling (电池回收 diànchí huíshōu).
