Chun Han Wong 王春翰
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@WSJ China reporter. 《華爾街日報》記者。我東寫西讀。 Author of "Party of One," an account of Xi Jinping's life and leadership: https://t.co/r4LJQ3H2Gx. https://t.co/bq3bRn1g8m
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My book on Xi Jinping's China, "Party of One," comes out next Tuesday, May 23. Get an early look through this cover essay for this weekend's @WSJ Review, adapted from the last chapter of the book. #PartyOfOne.
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Here's something that I've been working on for the past two years. Looking forward to presenting it next summer. 鄙人拙作拟明年5月出版，望大家多多指教。.
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Chinese activist blogger Li Tingyu spent nearly 4yrs under police custody and probation for documenting social unrest. This summer, she fled China to seek a new life. “Now I want to make use of my new status to say all the things I couldn’t say before.”
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China's No. 1 leader with his new No. 2. Caption says this was on Nanji Island, off Wenzhou city in Zhejiang province. Xi Jinping was Zhejiang party chief from 2002-2007. Li Qiang was Wenzhou party chief from 2002-2004, sec-gen of Zhejiang prov. party committee from 2004-2012.
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Blockbuster @AP story on how China's central government held off from warning the public of an epidemic threat for 6 days after concluding internally that they were likely facing a new coronavirus contagion, citing internal documents and expert estimates.
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Xi Jinping altered China's architecture of power not only with shock-and-awe purges, but also subtler techniques. He undercuts perceived rivals by taking down their political networks, an approach known as waqiangjiao, or “digging at the foot of a wall."
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U.S. State Department transcript of Pompeo’s Monday briefing lists Singapore as a part of Malaysia. The hosts of the just-concluded #TrumpKimSummit might have something to say about that.
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Authorities held Lu Yuyu for four years over his efforts to document unrest in China, a role he says he was forced to give up. “I’d just end up in jail again,” Lu says. “You can tell people how brave you are, but in reality you wouldn’t achieve anything.”
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Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi.
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The People’s Republic of China has formally outlasted the Soviet Union. #AchievementUnlocked
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Two cofounders of China's Boyu Capital, a leading private-equity firm started by a grandson of former president Jiang Zemin, have relocated to Singapore from Hong Kong, a move mainly driven by concerns over Jiang's ebbing clout, sources told @WSJ.
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A Chinese sporting power couple denounced China's Communist Party, backing an anti-Party campaign waged by fugitive Chinese businessman Guo Wengui. @WSJ spoke to retired soccer star Hao Haidong and former badminton world champion Ye Zhaoying to ask why.
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How Xi is rewriting China's recent past: a new Short History of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党简史), an authoritative text for general audiences published in February, features significant changes from earlier editions from 2001 and 2010.
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Activist Huang Genbao received a 16mth jail sentence for criticizing China's leaders and the Communist Party on Twitter. “In the past they only made threats and took statements,” he said. “This time they were doing things for real, I didn’t expect it.”
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“A neighbor’s cousin died. An acquaintance’s younger brother died. A friend’s father, mother and wife all died, and then he himself died," Wuhan writer Fang Fang wrote in her diary on the city's quarantine. "The tears don’t come when people cry.” #Covid19.
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The journalists I respect the most and do the best work I’ve read are often also the ones who tweet the least.
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China's leader Xi Jinping hasn’t sent a congratulatory letter to newly elected @kuomintang chairman Johnny Chiang, the first time a Communist Party leader hasn’t personally congratulated a newly elected KMT chairman since the practice began in 2005.
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China imposed roughly $1.5 million in financial penalties on the Beijing arm of Mintz Group for allegedly conducting unapproved statistical work, months after local authorities detained the New York-based due diligence firm’s staff members.
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German researcher @adrianzenz, whose work has shaped global understanding of China's Xinjiang policies, funded most of his research himself, using income from a side job coding for a German videostreaming startup. Per @joshchin
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Pottinger said: "台湾向世界表明自由民主的精神绝不仅仅是「美国」或者「西方」的，而且是普世的。正如中国天体物理学家方励之在1980年代后期所说，‘我研究的不是东方物理，也不是西方物，而是物理。’". Watch here:
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Dates this year when the People's Daily frontpage features neither a Xi Jinping photo nor a mention of his name in a headline:. July 15.July 9.June 29.June 6.April 10.April 5.Feb 21.Feb 18.Jan 28.Jan 27.Jan 22.
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Beijing's move to replace top Hong Kong policy-making officials while keeping Carrie Lam in place “shows us where the real power lies in Hong Kong,” says @antd. “Xi’s replacing the puppet masters rather than the puppet.”
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Rejecting Western influence with Chinese characteristics: celebrating a German philosopher, championing a Russian praxis of his political philosophy and crowning the occasion with a French socialist anthem.
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Schadenfreude seen on WeChat. “The Eight-Nation Alliance has suffered heavy losses.” #Covid19
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Zhao Kezhi's June 2018 speech, as revealed in #XinjiangPoliceFiles, suggests @WSJ's manually calculated total of at least 7,700 convenience police stations in operation by summer 2018 is accurate. More stations would have been built since Zhao's tally.
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Politburo, Politburo Standing Committee and Central Secretariat namelists, as released by Xinhua News Agency.
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China revokes police reprimand for Li Wenliang, the late doctor hailed as a #Covid19 whistleblower. “Dr Li, perhaps tonight’s outcome can give you a tiny bit of consolation,” a Weibo user said. “But it’s still far from sufficient to let you rest in peace.”
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"Why were you arrested?" "I violated Wuhan Order No. 17.". "Why were you arrested?" "I supported Wuhan Order No. 17.". "Why were you arrested?" "I issued Wuhan Order No. 17.". h/t a Chinese friend.
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It's now pub day (May 23 in Asia) for #PartyOfOne. Thank you for your support and looking forward to discussing the book with readers. 鄙人拙作于今日正式出版。感谢大家的支持，也请各位多多指教。
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping's younger brother, Xi Yuanping, made a rare public appearance on May 13 in Yan'an, where he attended a symposium commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the CCP Central Committee's Northwest Bureau.
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China's leadership dropped calls for pursuing "peaceful" ties or "peaceful unification" with Taiwan in an annual policy blueprint, breaking with nearly three decades of precedent in a sign that it is taking a tougher tack toward the island democracy.
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On April 12, Guangzhou's mayor said there were 4553 Africans in the city. Xinhua reported April 14 that 4553 Africans in Guangzhou underwent nucleic-acid testing since April 4—suggesting that the city has screened its entire registered African population.
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Disney's Chinese partner took down these photos after I asked about Communist Party work at Shanghai Disneyland.
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Lee Teng-hui, who as Taiwan’s first native-born president steered the island’s transition to democracy, became its first popularly elected leader and championed a sense of Taiwanese identity separate from mainland China, died Thursday at 97. @WSJ obit：
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“They are targeting Islam. they have gone overboard,” said a 65-year-old mosque worker in China's Yinchuan city, tearing up as he spoke. “Just make sure the common people have food to eat and clothes to wear. Don’t interfere with our religious beliefs.”
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The U.S. pursues reunification. of the Malay Peninsula.
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Hu Chunhua is NOT in the new Politburo, which has 24 members.
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Standoff between protesters and police on a stretch of Hennessy Road in Causeway Bay. #HongKong
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Signed some copies of #PartyOfOne at Hatchards (Piccadilly) and Waterstones (Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square outlets) in London. Only a few available, go get them quick if you’d like one!
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In China, Xi Jinping's top-down leadership breathed new life into an old problem for Communist governments: "formalism," or excessive red tape and pointless political rituals meant to please bosses.
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Chen Quanguo, Xinjiang's Communist Party chief, has imposed draconian grid-style policing with networks of "convenience police stations." @WSJ calculations suggest he built more than 7,700 such stations in Xinjiang between the summers of 2016 and 2018.
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“We don’t want Taiwan to become another Hong Kong,” said a 37yo homemaker with 2 kids after voting for @iingwen. “We can see what happens under authoritarian governments. People don’t have the freedom to speak out. Here we do.” #TaiwanElection #TaiwanVotes
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China is deploying anticorruption enforcers in embassies abroad, where they will seek crossborder cooperation to hunt fugitives and recover stolen assets, extending Beijing’s international reach as part of Xi Jinping’s crackdown on graft. w/ @KeithZhai
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My colleague @evangershkovich has been detained in Russia for 34 weeks. We at @wsj continue to call for his immediate release. #IStandWithEvan. Photo: Joe Fornabaio/The Wall Street Journal
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No country for alternative voices under Xi Jinping. Beijing think tank @OfficialUnirule, a rare bastion of liberal economic thought in China, says it is shutting down due to government pressure.
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Qin Gang's bio page on the State Council website, as cached on July 22 and how it appeared ~2300hrs Beijing time July 25. It's been updated to remove reference to him being foreign minister. July 22 cached version: Live link: 📷
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#MH370 co-pilot, Fariq Hamid, had invited 2 female passengers into cockpit on previous flight, says one of the women. http://t.co/AJcBEmvdsM.
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China's Foreign Ministry sent letters to foreign envoys explaining why Beijing wants to impose national-security legislation on Hong Kong. Addressing HK's legal loopholes and lack of enforcement tools is “something that must be done—and done without delay"
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#PartyOfOne comes out in paperback on May 21. It features some updates to reflect events that transpired since the book's publication last May. Available for pre-order now.
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#PartyOfOne, my forthcoming book on Xi Jinping's China, is available for pre-order ahead of its May 23 release. 鄙人拙作现已接受预购，感谢诸位支持。
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When Li Peng's death was announced, obituaries in many English-language media referred to him as the "Butcher of Beijing." But in the immediate wake of the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Western media applied the label exclusively to someone else: Deng Xiaoping.
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Very honoured to receive a starred review from Kirkus for my forthcoming book "Party of One." . The book is scheduled for release on May 23 and is available for pre-order:
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Taiwan’s legislature passed proposals to rebrand flag carrier China Airlines and make its passports more distinct from mainland Chinese ones. Lawmakers cited concerns that foreigners were confusing the Republic of China with the People's Republic of China.
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It's been 13 weeks since my colleague @evangershkovich was detained in Russia. We at @WSJ continue to call for his immediate release. #IStandWithEvan
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When the Shekou Museum of Reform and Opening first opened in December, visitors were greeted by this sculpture depicting a 1984 visit to Shenzhen's Shekou district by Deng Xiaoping and other senior leaders. 1/
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It has been 100 days since my @WSJ colleague @evangershkovich was detained by Russia during a reporting trip. We at @WSJ deny the espionage allegations against Evan and continue to call for his immediate release. #IStandwithEvan
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Today in Pekingology: Xi Jinping was seated as he delivered his reform-anniversary speech, a departure from his usual practice of standing behind a lecturn for major addresses at the Great Hall of the People. Jiang and Hu delivered their reform-ann speeches from behind a lectern.
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This is not an ad buy. The tender documents state that China News Service is looking for promoters to boost their Facebook and Twitter followings.
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China is intensifying diplomatic lobbying to thwart criticism of its Xinjiang policies, with Chinese diplomats formally and informally petitioning several govts not to call for a special session at the UN Human Rights Council. w/ @laurnorman.
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My newly arrived secondhand copy of this Wall Street classic appears to have some kind of intriguing backstory, the details of which I may never know.
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WRT Beijing party boss Cai Qi's remarks on Covid-19 policy, here's a video of his speech. The relevant segment starts ~1hr 15min. Cai didn't say "next five years" (未来五年) in relation to plans to "normalise" pandemic controls and dynamic-zero approach.
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Hu Jintao's appearance at Jiang Zemin's wake (located at the PLA General Hospital in Beijing) as shown on CCTV's flagship evening news programme.
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Under Xi Jinping, China's graft busters have hunted everyone from high-powered politicians to lowly bureaucrats. Now they are reaching back in time, scouring old case files to find wrongdoing that authorities had overlooked or chosen not to pursue.
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The Communist Party has long struggled with leadership succession, a problem that Xi Jinping exacerbated by tilting China back to one-man rule. Recent speculation over his health brings the issue into sharper relief.
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Here's a look at how Chinese Communist Party's authoritative history texts recounted the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and their aftermath. The CCP's 70-year history published in 1991 has by far the most detailed accounting of the events "between the spring and summer of 1989.".
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One of the best reporters in Beijing, who will still do exemplary China coverage from outside, wherever he ends up. As this thread shows, he already has.
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“I can’t really believe the official data showing large declines” in new #Covid19 cases outside Hubei, a Weibo user wrote. “Because large numbers of new cases are political lapses, whereas smaller numbers of new cases are political achievements.”
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American officials have said @SecPompeo’s meeting with Yang Jiechi was arranged at Beijing’s request. The official Chinese readout from the meeting said Yang attended at the invitation of the U.S. No consensus even on this basic detail.
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"The Great Expedition" (伟大征程), a mass song-and-dance performance staged in Beijing's National Stadium to celebrate the Chinese Communist Party's 100-year history, has a fairly sizeable 22-year gap in its narrative.
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Two titles by my @WSJ colleagues that deserve their places on any China reading list. Add them to yours!. “Land of Big Numbers” by @tepingchen “Superpower Showdown” by @bobdavis187 & @Lingling_Wei.
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China has approached a number of countries to discuss the possibility of easing border controls to allow some business travel to resume, part of broader efforts to restart economic activity stalled by the coronavirus pandemic. #Covid19.
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The 205 full members elected today to the CCP 20th Central Committee DO NOT include Li Keqiang, Wang Yang and Han Zheng.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Pope Francis's remarks on Uighurs "have no factual basis," and said Xinjiang is going through its best development period in its history. These comments have since disappeared from the ministry's website.
As the Vatican and Beijing's controversial bishop pact rolls forward with a new ordination in Qingdao, Pope Francis's comments on China's treatment of Uighur Muslims opens a new source of potential tension. @FrancisXRocca @ByChunHan.
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The definitive @WSJ account of how the US, China and Canada arranged the most high-profile prisoner swap in decades. Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou for the two Canadian Michaels, Kovrig and Spavor.
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Today in pointless Pekingology: Premier Li Keqiang switched ties between the NPC closing ceremony and his annual news conference.
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The Communist Party branch at @wallstreetcn, a Chinese financial-news aggregator recently shut down by regulators, held a study session on how to carry out "high-quality promotion of Party-building work in the media for the new era."
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An intriguing postscript to the historical revisionism at a Shenzhen museum where a Deng sculpture was replaced by a Xi quotation this summer: Deng is back. A frieze similar to the original featuring the reformist leader has been installed in the lobby.
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Before the Hong Kong protests erupted, “the Communist Party’s efforts to pressure Taiwan didn’t feel very personal to many of us," said an organizer of a concert in Kaohsiung supporting the Hong Kong protesters. “We’re like frogs that don’t realize we’re being boiled.”.
"Taiwan cannot become like Hong Kong." In the coming presidential election, voters weigh economic stability and political freedom.
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China’s Communist Party said it would convene a top policy-setting meeting in October, following an unusually lengthy delay that had set off speculation about the unity of the party leadership.
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Taiwan wasn't invited to participate in the virtual World Health Assembly starting today; Taipei agreed to set aside proposal to give Taiwan observer status at the WHA until normal sessions resume, per @MOFA_Taiwan.
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Xinhua releases final version of 2020 govt work report, with 89 amendments. As flagged by state media, refs to “peaceful development” of ties with Taiwan and 1992 consensus were added, after their omission from the report delivered by Li Keqiang last week.
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China's leader is visiting Wuhan, the epicenter of the #Covid19 epicenter. “Xi Jinping is there to pick peaches” and enjoy the fruits of other people’s labor, said @zhanglifan, a historian in Beijing. “Xi’s hope is to turn an initial setback into victory.”
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Xi Jinping has an unusual companion on his latest inspection tour in Tibet: Yang Xiaodu (1st from right), who is a Politburo member, deputy CCDI secretary and the director of the National Supervisory Commission.
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Another precedent that Xi Jinping broke: The new Politburo Standing Committee met Chinese and foreign press at the Golden Hall (金色大厅) in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, the 1st time this meeting didn't take place at the Eastern Hall since the practice started in 1987. /1.
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Tsinghua's Prof Xu Zhangrun, who penned a sensational essay in July criticizing Xi Jinping's leadership, resurfaces with another eloquent piece in @FTChinese, insisting on the need for free speech and public dialogue.
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Speaking of arithmetic with Chinese characteristics, here’s a gem from CPPCC member Pan Qinglin: “The Cultural Revolution had a thousand faults, but the fact that the ‘Up to the Mountains, Down to the Countryside Movement’ nurtured one Xi Jinping makes it 10,000 times worthwhile”
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"Mumford and Sons IPA." Lol. #RIPAnthonyBourdain
Anthony Bourdain was a brilliant, brilliant writer and I don't think anyone has ever nailed beer culture as well as he did.
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Ahead of Taiwan's elections this Saturday, @WSJ offers this report from Kaohsiung city, where dramatic turnarounds in political fortunes for Taiwan's two main political parties illustrate how the Hong Kong protests have shaped many voters' preferences.
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The #Covid19 pandemic is stoking long-simmering tensions between China and the island democracy of Taiwan, underscoring differences between their political systems and deepening resentment toward Beijing.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s speech at the NPC opening today was a lot shorter than the version of the government work report provided to journalists. Here’s a sampling—Li skipped over the segments highlighted in blue. #TwoSessions2021
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Most foreign news organisations simply cannot function in China without Chinese nationals doing journalism using titles like "researchers" or "news assistants." But not many consumers of China news even know they exist at all.
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"'The sick man of Asia' was used during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when foreign countries partially colonized China. This phrase is derogatory and inappropriate."
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