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China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Any China Chinese Great Ideology Longer Makes Nation Pride Sense Them

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More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'

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Topics: After American Become Between China Date Decades Enemy Even Found Four Generally Lives Mao Met Moment More Nixon Our Our Lives Pivotal Powerful Present Reached Relationship Than

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The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.

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Topics: Banks Between China Contribution Controversial Differentiate Fair Growing Like Must New Power Reflections Sea South Those World

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Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

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Topics: Because Chairman Communist Communist Party Country Cult Decades Engineering Extremism Leaders Led Mao Nation Next Party Personality Political Politicians Possible Rare Spent Three Through Top

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In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.

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Topics: Across Affairs Bridge China Cycle Frequent Large Line New News Nothing Over Passes Presidents Rarely Ride Some Subway Though Trip Without

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Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Abroad Encounter Foreigners How Interest Living Places Regard Strange

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I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.

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Topics: American Away Dwell Expect Find History Much Museums Too Trace Vietnam Vietnamese Visible War

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A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.

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Topics: American Believing China Communist Generation Made Mistake Our Policy Short-Term Sympathies Tragically Unite Vietnam War Were Would Wrong

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'419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them.

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Topics: Age Clause Code Digital Digital Age Longer Named Nigerian Noise Notice Part Them White

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As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.

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Topics: Beijing China Made Movies Obscurity Onto Sheer Somehow Sometimes Student

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 24th, 1976

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