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I Can't Stand to Watch Any More of the Chinese Victory Parade, but I Encourage You to Do So
My lord. The livestream is here. If I were living in — oh, I don’t know, maybe Japan…
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Reuters China’s Air Problem Is Worse Than You Think
A new study finds that air pollution kills 4,000 people per day in China.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Just How Great a Threat Is China?
It is the most important country for America’s future. Does that mean it’s the most dangerous?
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Reuters San Bernardino Votes to Move Past Bankruptcy, Plus Pandas and the Finale to the Boiled Frog Saga
News from every corner of the world
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Reuters Lee Kuan Yew, the Leader Who Lasted
Why the passing of a 91-year-old Singaporean is attracting such notice
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YouTube Could This Video Save China?
"I just don't want to live like this," a prominent Chinese journalist says about the environmental hell that her country has become. We are witnessing a very important moment for China's future, and for its effect on the world.
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Wikimedia Sobering News Out of China, Part 4 Million
"Pinging Baidu without a VPN takes 17ms on average with 0% loss; pinging the Atlantic without a VPN takes 350ms and about 40% loss." Chronicles of a country walling itself off
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ProPublica Fun With Chinese Agitprop, Presidents' Day Edition
A preposterously nationalistic video celebrating Internet censorship, which gets less funny the more you think about it
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Reuters This Is Getting Serious: Intellectual Self-Isolation in China
Let's hope that some day we'll look back on the current crackdown as an unfortunate phase.
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Youku via The Nanfang One Clip, Two Views of China
Take a look at this video. These are the people the Chinese government thinks shouldn't get open access to the Internet.
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People's Daily online There Will Always Be a Chinese State Media
The government is very conservative about some aspects of expression. When it comes to others...
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Brian Glucroft China Catches Up
And in the worst possible way
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Reuters Is the U.S.-China Climate Pact as Big a Deal as It Seems?
Wednesday's news doesn't mean that global climate negotiations will succeed. But it means they're no longer guaranteed to fail.
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GreatFirewallOfChina.org The Under-Appreciated Genius of Mark Zuckerberg in China
"Facebook is blocked in China, but Chinese media and social media was aflame with the story of the multi-billionaire founder of Facebook who speaks Chinese!"
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James Fallows 'A Foreigner Speaking Chinese—That's Scary!'
Finale on the Zuckerberg-in-China saga
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Reuters Isaac Stone Fish With More on Zuckerberg's Chinese Language Show
"Yes, I could give a 30-minute Chinese-language speech much better than Zuckerberg’s. But I will never be able to satisfy the request to do so in front of millions of people."
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All maps from FlightAware What a Wandering Airliner Says About China's Prospects
A Chinese plane was not allowed to land at some Chinese airports. Why that matters.
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Reuters Why Obama Should Say Very Little About Hong Kong, and Other Protest Readings
What looks "strong" to the Washington commentariat would only weaken the demonstrators' position
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Hai Zhang 'On the Other Side of the Shenzhen River'
A man born in Kunming reflects on Hong Kong, and cries.
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Reuters 'When We Felt Threatened, We Opened Umbrellas and Raised Our Hands'
A message from Hong Kong
