Tea Leaf Nation
List of Tea Leaf Nation articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A New Look for Tibetans, With an Assist From the Chinese State
On a highly censored Internet, even viral wedding photos can be a propaganda tool.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stephen Schwarzman Wants to Create a Global Network for Peace
The private equity mogul does not think of his eponymous China studies program as just a scholarship — he thinks of it as a way to avoid war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Communists that China Forgot
Not an hour from Beijing is a hard-core leftist's "utopia," free from modern Chinese materialism. Welcome to Righteous Path Farm Academy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Happened to Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Movement?
Still riven over strategy, tactics, and core values, many now consider the 2014 protests a failure.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will China Ban Katy Perry?
The American pop singer just gave a concert in Taiwan — while wearing a Taiwanese flag and a sunflower dress.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Now Viral in China
Viewers there took President Obama’s self-deprecating humor as a lesson in popular politics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘The Chinese Passport Demonstrates Its True Worth’
Withdrawing nationals from earthquake-wracked Kathmandu has become a show of Chinese state power.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Chinese Fugitives
Forty percent of China's 100 most-wanted allegedly reside Stateside. Is Beijing trying to nudge Washington to step up cooperation?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Loves Pakistan … but Most Chinese Don’t
China's pro-Pakistan state media blitz may be more about convincing its own people.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China, Start-up Nation
Why everyone from Beijing to Beihai is trying to become the country’s Mark Zuckerberg.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Chart Explains Everything You Need to Know About Chinese Internet Censorship
Control + Alt + Anxiety.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Inspirational Backstory of China’s ‘Feminist Five’
One of China's now-famous activists speaks out about her detention, release, and the outpouring of support that gave her hope.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Xi Jinping’s Problems Are ‘Monumental’
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on Beijing’s massive ambitions and deep-rooted problems … plus how the Chinese president lights up a room.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Online Support — and Mockery — Await Chinese Feminists After Release
The outpouring of derisive comments pretty much proves the activists' point -- China's got a misogyny problem, and the government isn't helping.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Chinese Internet Hates Hillary Clinton Even More than Republicans Do
Many of China's netizens think she'll be too tough on their country, while others are just being sexist.
