Tea Leaf Nation
List of Tea Leaf Nation articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In One Xinjiang City, Beards and Muslim Headscarves Banned From Buses
Karamay's clumsy policy is likely to fray nerves further in an already tense region.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Bizarre Fixation on a 23-Year-Old Woman
Guo Meimei is being used to represent all that's wrong with Chinese charities -- and maybe China itself.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Chinese Military’s Awkward New Recruitment Video
The U.S. Navy is partly to thank (or blame).
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Exclusive: Hackers Infiltrate Chinese TV Station
Messages denouncing the "Communist Party bandits" parade across Chinese televisions in Wenzhou.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Is Ending Its ‘Apartheid.’ Here’s Why No One Is Happy About It
Ending the divide between urban and rural residents will seemingly please neither.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What’s Wrong With this Chinese Town?
Officials in Sihong County appear out of control, and Chinese media is starting to smell blood.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The ‘Anti-Corruption’ Campaign That Wasn’t
Former security czar Zhou Yongkang was deposed because he lost a power struggle, not because he was corrupt.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Paper Tiger
How China's once-feared top security chief Zhou Yongkang became just a sad old man.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Say It Ain’t So, Zhou
China reacts to the downfall of its once-powerful security czar.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Look Who’s Not Talking
Behind the scenes, the Chinese and Japanese governments are barely communicating. That should worry us all.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The New Website That Has China Buzzing
"Pengpai" has tens of millions of dollars in funding, and everyone in journalism is talking about it. But no one seems pleased.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s ‘Stinky Meat-Gate’
A recent muckraking report is a black eye for McDonald's and KFC, but also for the country's regulators.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All Hail ‘Fatty Kim the Third’
Chinese netizens love mocking North Korea's portly dictator. But it masks a deeper disdain.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Everybody Hates Rui
Chinese netizens rejoice after once-swaggering state news anchor Rui Chenggang gets detained in a corruption probe.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Another Chinese Website Bites the Dust
Crowdsourced translation site Cenci gets "erased from the planet."
