Isaac Stone Fish

Isaac Stone Fish was Asia editor at Foreign Policy from 2014-2016.

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How Obama Tried and Failed to Make Friends with China

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Why Michelle Obama shouldn’t meet with Peng Liyuan

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Umbrellas and renovations: The not-so-subtle ways Chinese officials keep people from commemorating Tiananmen

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Pulp Liberation Army

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Retired high-ranking Chinese official asks why Jews are so smart

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Does North Korea have a pirate problem?

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Why isn’t the Chinese press all over the AP phone-record scandal?

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Responding to He Yafei: Who’s to blame for the downturn in U.S.-Chinese relations?

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How do you investigate North Korean human rights abuses from afar?

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Why is a decades-old poisoning case taking Chinese social media by storm?

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Thomas Friedman: I only deserve partial credit for coining the ‘Chinese dream’

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CCTV releases images of Xinjiang ‘terrorist’ victims

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Could China’s love of cash be as much about trust as lack of trust?

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China’s Black Hole

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Why do so many Chinese people share the same name?

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