Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a nice holiday. The PRC is back to work Tuesday from the New Year’s holiday. Today’s newsletter is a bit of a catchup from the last couple of weeks, no doubt there are some gaps. While official public data on the number of Covid infections since the government switched to its “dynamic let it rip” policy are useless, there is little doubt that hundreds of millions have been infected, and tragically many thousands have died, and many more are going to. Infections appear, emphasis on “appear”, to have peaked in some of the larger cities but there is always a lag between infections and serious illness and death, and cases appear to be just beginning to surge in rural areas.
I think by now there are enough numbered "optimizations," "establishes," and other such profundities so as to do a take off on "The Twelve Days of Christmas," with apologies to this carol. The first day being, "And Xi Jinping being carefree," or some such thing. Is the CCP leadership not aware of how ridiculous it appears to the world? The Century of Humiliation continues, now as that of self-humiliation. And now it's carping about travel restrictions?
I think by now there are enough numbered "optimizations," "establishes," and other such profundities so as to do a take off on "The Twelve Days of Christmas," with apologies to this carol. The first day being, "And Xi Jinping being carefree," or some such thing. Is the CCP leadership not aware of how ridiculous it appears to the world? The Century of Humiliation continues, now as that of self-humiliation. And now it's carping about travel restrictions?
A million kilowatts is 1 Gigawatt which is a more familiar unit. 65 GW of coal-fired capacity approved in 2022 is quite a bit.
Welcome back Bill, happy new year to you and fam. looking forward to your notes in 2023