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A Bitter Road Back For Hong Kong Students Arrested During 2019 Protests
HONG KONG — Shortly after his release from the Detention Center, Ah Tao received a phone call from his secondary school headmaster. The headmaster told the Hong Kong teenager that it might not be a...
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Old Witch Farce, No Fly Zone: Specter Of Pelosi Taiwan Trip Raises Heat In...
It's not quite "Nixon goes to China," but the question of whether U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Taiwan is already stirring geopolitical tensions, and sparking rhetorical bluster from...
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China's Tattoo Crackdown: Celebrity, Subversion And A Twist Of Patriotism
For those who get tattoos to be noticed, the Chinese government has noticed.In June, China's State Council released new measures targeting the showcasing of tattoos in public media, forbidding...
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The China-Vietnam-U.S. "Triangle": A Model For Globalization's Future?
There have been a flurry of reports recently in the Chinese media about the rise of Southeast Asian economies, particularly Vietnam's.The question of whether Southeast Asia is about to replace China...
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How China's Race To Boost Low Birth Rates Is Backfiring With Teenage Pregnancy
In 2018, the phrase "family planning" disappeared from the names of Chinese State Council ministries and commissions. Three years later, China announced the "third-child policy", allowing one family...
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What Life Is Like As A Taiwanese Living In Mainland China
SHANGHAI — Weng was invited to a party by a mainland Chinese friend on the night that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan in August. The theme of the party was different from the...
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Inside China's Surveillance State, Built On High Tech And A Billion Spies
BEIJING — In 2021, a local police bureau in Beijing published an initiative on the Sharp Eyes project. Its description offers a chilling taste of how China's future of mass surveillance will be....
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Escape From Foxconn: Inside The COVID Lockdown Chaos Blocking China's iPhone...
ZHENGZHOU — Luo, a newcomer at the Foxconn factory in this central Chinese city, was genuinely frightened when she heard her workplace would be an "experiment field" for new COVID-19 policies: Even...
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Business Tips, Free Speech, Racism: A Nigerian Writer's China Diaries
BEIJING — China's increasing trade links with Africa have become the most discussed bilateral relationships of the twenty-first century. But the opinions we hear are usually white and Western. Solomon...
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Chinese Students' "Absurd" Protest Against COVID Lockdowns: Public Crawling
Since last Friday, the world has watched a wave of street protests have taken place across China as frustration against extended lockdowns reached a boiling point. But even before protesters took to...
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How China's Mass Protest Took The World By Surprise — And Where It Will End
In just one weekend, protests spread across China. A fire in an apartment block in Urumqi in China’s western Xinjiang region killed 10, with many blaming lockdown rules for the deaths. Anti-lockdown...
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Brother Boys, The Real Lives Of Hong Kong's Male Sex Workers
HONG KONG — David's working place is in an old Cantonese style building from the sixties, with a massage bed placed right in the center. There is a TV and a sofa, with walls painted his favorite shade...
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Why Xi Jinping Can't Escape His Failures On COVID
-Analysis-At the end of 2022, building new alliances around the world seems easier to the Chinese government than convincing its own population that Chinese vaccines will prevent a new surge in COVID...
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Between Xi Jinping And Pope Francis, China's Catholics Are Still Stuck In Limbo
At a mass on the Assumption of Mary, the Italian priest broke the bread and gave half of it to Liu, an underground priest from China. This simple and solemn rite symbolizes communion with Jesus and...
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A Perfect Storm Of China-Taiwan Hostility: Will It Snap In 2023?
-Analysis-TAIPEI — To predict what might happen in the Taiwan Strait in 2023, one needs to bear in mind the profound influence of three significant geopolitical events in 2022: the Russian invasion of...
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As COVID Explodes, An Inside Look At China's Gray Market Of Generic Drugs
BEIJING — When her grandfather joined the millions of infected Chinese, Chen quickly decided to buy COVID-19 drugs to limit the effects of the virus. She woke up early to shop on Jingdong, one of...
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How Argentina Has Become China's Foothold In Latin America
-Analysis-BUENOS AIRES — There was a media furore worldwide in February over the sighting and subsequent downing of mysterious Chinese balloons by the U.S. coastline. The unnerving affair naturally...
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Yes, Xi Jinping Is Now More Powerful Than Mao Zedong Ever Was
-Analysis-BEIJING — Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has been re-elected to a third five-year term at the head of the world's second largest economic power. Nobody was surprised.The vote took...
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Macron Goes To China — Old And New Reasons Xi Jinping Can't Ignore Europe
-Analysis-PARIS — In the midst of the war in Ukraine, and as clouds gather over Chinese-American relations, will French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to China help restore diplomacy to its...
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China, The West And Macron's "Third Way" For Cooling Global Tensions
-Analysis-PARIS — Do not send the wrong message. This is the main issue at stake in French President Emmanuel Macron's three-day visit to China. He must not send the wrong message about Ukraine but...
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