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Revisiting the End of Zero-Covid

New on the site this time: Gan Ye, a young journalist working with Singapore-based Initium to produce a poignant piece on how ordinary Chinese people deal with the grief and anger produced by the many...

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China 2025

New on the site this time: Three new texts, all on China’s mood as 2025 dawns. All are bleak. Sun Liping. “The Two Things People Are Most Worried About, Which Can Also Count as a Belated New Year's Wi...

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Xiao Gongqin on Trump 2.0

New on the site this time: Only one piece, unsurprisingly on Trump's re-election: Xiao Gongqin, "As Trump Assumes Power, How Will China Respond to the Challenge?" Personally, Trump's victory has me fl...

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It's the economy, stupid!

New on the site this time: ​Two pieces on the Chinese economy, both sparked by the massive intervention of China’s central bank into the Chinese stock market on September 24, the effects of which are ...

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