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Getty / The Atlantic ‘We Tried to Warn You’
Links between online misinformation and real-world violence were always a problem “over there.” The Capitol Hill riot shows otherwise.
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Chan Long Hei / Bloomberg / Getty Eradicating a Democracy Movement
Mass arrests in Hong Kong show both the power of an organized opposition and the authorities’ fear of it.
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Paula Bronstein / Getty When You Live Next to an Autocracy
How does a country balance its values and its interests when it shares a border with China?
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Lam Yik Fei / The New York Times ... An Ominous Milestone in Hong Kong’s Democratic Descent
Joshua Wong has been sentenced to more than a year in jail. Avenues for protest in the city are narrowing.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Joe Biden Has a Barack Obama Problem
Many leaders in Asia, in particular, remain unhappy with the former president’s foreign policy.
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Getty / The Atlantic America Still Thinks It’s the Election Police
After the 2020 election, who would bother to listen to the U.S. about how to run a vote?
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Trump Is a ‘Necessary Evil’ for Some
Despite his own assault on democratic norms, the president is lauded in parts of Asia for his hawkishness toward China.
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Anusak Laowilas / NurPhoto / Getty How Milk Tea Became an Anti-China Symbol
The Milk Tea Alliance is emblematic of the frustration many young people feel toward Beijing’s grating assertiveness in the region.
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ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP / Getty How History Gets Rewritten
Hong Kong’s leaders and police have sought to recast what has happened in the past year. Even if no one is convinced, it may not matter.
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Billy H.C. Kwok / Getty Where the Pandemic Is Cover for Authoritarianism
In Hong Kong and around the world, public-health concerns are being used to excuse extraordinary overreach.
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PHILIP FONG / AFP via Getty Hong Kong’s Most Brazen Arrest Yet
The authorities insist freedoms will be upheld. Their actions show otherwise.
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Chien-Chi Chang / Magnum A Newsroom at the Edge of Autocracy
The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper—for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows.
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Anthony Wallace / AFP / Getty Hong Kong Is a Colony Once More
With a far-reaching national-security law, overlords in a distant capital are again making decisions on the city’s behalf.
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Marly Gallardo The Leader Who Killed Her City
Carrie Lam has been a unique failure. Yet she is merely a symptom of Hong Kong’s ills.
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The Atlantic Lessons for American Police From Hong Kong
The city’s force had dubbed itself “Asia’s Finest.” Now it is seen by many as an occupying force.
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Philip Fong / AFP / Getty Pandemic Dining: Temperature Checks, Time Limits, and Dividers
The experience of eating out in Hong Kong illustrates what it’s like to visit a restaurant right now.
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Paul Yeung / Bloomberg / Getty The End of Hong Kong
China has moved to take away the city’s autonomy, one of several aggressive actions by Beijing across the region.
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Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images Is This Taiwan’s Moment?
Countries “are not backing down in the face of Chinese pressure” over the island, its foreign minister says.
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Courtesy of Denise Rendor The Fragility of the Global Nurse Supply Chain
The pandemic has exposed how richer countries, including the United States, rely on health-care workers from poorer ones, such as the Philippines.
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Adeshola Makinde What Happens to Gambling When Sports Shut Down?
The cancellation of major events has left stadiums empty and casinos closed.
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