Tea Leaf Nation
List of Tea Leaf Nation articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Censored: A Young Survivor Decries Handling of Tianjin Explosion
The day of China's splashy military parade, she writes, local officials persuaded her parents to sign a sketchy contract.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Chinese Web Users Grieve for Syrian Toddler — and Blame America
The reaction to images of Aylan Kurdi says much about the deep tie many see between democracy and chaos.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We’re Still Fighting the Japanese in Bed’
China's oversexed anti-Japanese propaganda and its underground porn trade have a lot in common.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Military Parade Doesn’t Speak the Language of its Youth
Many young Chinese are skeptical of Beijing’s latest bid to link love of country to love of state.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Chinese Web Users Aren’t Blaming Detained Journalist for Market Panic
Wang Xiaolu has confessed to "spreading fake information" on state television. Many think he's being scapegoated.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rebel Without a Country
Rebel Pepper, China's most notorious political cartoonist, fled his native land for Japan. But life in exile is tougher than he expected.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Netanyahu, Shanghai, and the Communist Party’s Forbidden History
How the Israeli embassy just waded into one of China's most controversial wartime debates.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Chinese Media Jumps on Tragic Virginia Shooting
It happened in the evening, Beijing time, but quickly dominated China’s headlines.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Caused ‘Black Monday’? The Answer’s Blocked in China.
Global commodities, oil prices, the Fed — state media will blame anything but China for the recent dive in global stock prices.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mapping Fallout From ‘Black Monday’: Who Was Hardest Hit?
American stock markets have just closed. As the smoke clears, FP tallies the worldwide damage.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Let China Join the Global Monetary Elite
China wants the RMB to join the special drawing rights basket. It’s in America’s best interest not to stop it.
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map_china_europe_stereotypes cropped This Map Shows China’s Hilarious Stereotypes of Europe
According to Chinese web users, Italy is weak, Bulgaria is milk-fed, and Lithuania is suicidal.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is China About to Plunge the World into Recession?
FP asked four experts to weigh in on the RMB devaluation and China's sinking stock markets.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Is China So Fascinated by Amateur Porn?
Beijing's unwillingness to acknowledge a sexual revolution has helped boring sex tapes go wildly viral.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 4 Questions Chinese People Want Answered After Deadly Tianjin Blast
After a midnight explosion in Tianjin killed dozens, citizen-journalists are pressing the government to do more and share more.
