List of East Asia articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Empire of the Setting Sun
Shinzo Abe is trying to roll back nearly 70 years of Japanese pacifism, but is the country ready to be "normal" again?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s High-Pressure Network of Cram-Schools for Tots
Chinese kindergartens are required to go easy. That means many youngsters study overtime.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Chinese Universities, Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
Ventures in Seattle — and Laos, and Malaysia — are all part of a new soft-power push.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s PLA Gets Smarter (and Bigger, Faster, Stronger)
Once full of peasant farmers, China’s military now places a premium on college degrees. Somebody has to operate all those ballistic missiles.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Breakthroughs in Aleppo, Manbij; China’s New Building Spree
Turkey’s New Villains; And Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why China’s Internet Millions Suddenly Hate One Australian Swimmer
The Olympian called a Chinese competitor a ‘drug cheat.’ Online outrage promptly ensued.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Chinese Tourist Accidentally Applied for Asylum in Germany, Then Stayed in a Refugee Hostel.
After a misunderstanding while trying to report a theft, a Chinese man spent 12 days accidentally applying for asylum.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: China On The Move Everywhere, Taliban Truce With ISIS
Including Silicon Valley; U.S. War Anniversary;; Vets and Trump; And Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Chinese Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Their Military Again
The PLA has emerged from the darkness of 1989 to reclaim the hearts of the masses.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Gone Ballistic Since the Hague Ruling
Beijing has lashed out at neighbors and the U.S. after losing in a landmark international tribunal.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Japan’s Reluctant Feminist
For the hawkish new governor of Asia’s biggest city, fighting for female empowerment was a necessity, not a calling.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 North Korean Envoy to Olympics Was ‘Re-Educated’ on a Farm Last Year
The man overseeing the North Korean delegation was not in Kim Jong Un's good graces last year.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Was Uber’s China Exit a Failure or a Success?
For internet companies in China, the line between winning and losing has grown fuzzy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watch: Chinese Students in America Try to Find Meaning, and Fit In
Three overseas students at Smith College end up feeling caught between two cultures.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Is America’s Last Lonely Free Trader
The president is making a final push for a massive Asian trade deal that has been rejected by both Trump and Clinton — and by plenty of the powerful Republicans who once supported it.
