Tea Leaf Nation
List of Tea Leaf Nation articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who Said It, Donald Trump or a Chinese Communist?
How well do you know Trump, or the Chinese Communist Party leaders?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 I Lost My Savings in a Massive Chinese Investment Scam
Why doesn’t the government help me get my money back?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China, Explained
A new Chinese media start-up hopes to appeal to U.S. readers. But Beijing's censorship may get in its way.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Youth Think Tiananmen Was So 1989
Leery of anything political, young Chinese elites are helping the government banish the student massacre from memory.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beijing Calls South China Sea Island Reclamation a ‘Green Project’
The evidence is strong that construction has devastated coral reefs. But Beijing claims no harm done.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Meet the Chinese Trolls Pumping Out 488 Million Fake Social Media Posts
New research exposes a “massive secretive operation” to fill China’s internet with propaganda.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Taiwan’s Kids Are Not All Right
Angry youth swept Tsai Ing-wen to the presidency. They may also threaten her ability to govern.
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BEIJING, CHINA: TO GO WITH STORY "AFPLIFESTYLE-CHINA-RELIGION-CULTURE" (FILES) This file photo dated June, 1966 shows Chinese Red Guards, high school and university students, waving copies of Chairman Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book," parade in Beijing's streets at the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. During China's Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976, when at the command of Mao Zedong, one of the 20th century's most tyrannical dictators, Red Guards rampaged through much of the country, pillaging cultural symbols that were deemed as not representative of communist heroes Mao and Marx. AFP PHOTO/FILES (Photo credit should read JEAN VINCENT/AFP/Getty Images) My Uncle Was a Red Guard in China’s Cultural Revolution. He Isn’t Sorry.
To hear him tell it, China has turned its back on the values for which he fought.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Chinese Is Not a Backward Language
Critics who say it's unfit for the PC or the iPad are peddling a rebooted version of Orientalism.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mapped: Chinese Stereotypes of the Americas
Search engine queries suggest a mix of current events and well-worn tropes driving views of the continents.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Wants to Feed the World’s 1.6 Billion Muslims
The officially atheist country is salivating at a $1.6 trillion halal market. So far, it's been unable to break in.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 It Just Got Harder to Make a Difference in China
A harsh new NGO law has foreign organizations scrambling.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Man Who Burned His Chinese Passport
He also disparaged Chinese students online. Now netizens are arguing — was it racism, treachery, or political dissent?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Forecasting the Aftermath of a Ruling on China’s Nine-Dash Line
A tribunal is likely to rule on China's hazy claims to South China Sea sovereignty. How Beijing and others react isn't set in stone.