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  • Chinese Propaganda Outlet Pays Millions to US Newspapers

    Chinese Propaganda Outlet Pays Millions to US Newspapers0

    One of China’s main propaganda outlets has paid American newspapers nearly $19 million for advertising and printing expenses over the past four years, according to documents filed with the Justice Department. China Daily, an English-language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has paid more than $4.6 million to The Washington Post and nearly $6

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  • China’s Recycling Ban: Surprisingly Helpful for the Environment

    China’s Recycling Ban: Surprisingly Helpful for the Environment0

    Off the coast of California floats a Texas-sized island made out of garbage. It’s comprised almost entirely of humanity’s plastic waste. Where did this garbage mass in the middle of the Pacific Ocean came from? Plastic dumping. Plastic dumping is the practice of simply throwing away waste into rivers or lakes which eventually lead out into the

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  • China’s Growing Influence on Campus

    China’s Growing Influence on Campus0

    The U.S. government has opened a multi-front assault on the Chinese Communist Party’s infiltration of American institutions. Chinese companies that don’t abide by American securities laws will be delisted from U.S. stock exchanges under an executive order signed by the president. Another order prohibits federal workers’ pension funds from being invested in Chinese-controlled companies. Yet

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  • China’s Education System: A Case Against Importing It

    China’s Education System: A Case Against Importing It0

    I remember a story my college economics professor told my class many years ago about the differences she saw between her American economics students and the Chinese ones she taught during frequent sabbaticals to Beijing. She said that the Chinese economics students generally had superior math skills and the ability to quickly solve complex calculus

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  • China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Is a Totalitarian’s Dream Come True. Are We Far Behind?

    China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Is a Totalitarian’s Dream Come True. Are We Far Behind?0

    In its third season, the British science fiction TV series Black Mirror featured an episode called “Nosedive.” The episode, which was co-written by The Office actress Rashida Jones and starred Bryce Howard, depicted a society of smiling people who walked around with holographic bubbles that contained their “rating.” These ratings were based on how people were

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  • China’s Rags-to-Riches Ascent at America’s Expense

    China’s Rags-to-Riches Ascent at America’s Expense0

    A friend of mine who traveled China from the 1970s until recently described what the country was like 30 years ago: Its cities were sprawling, impoverished places with dirt roads and low-rise structures. With few automobiles in the country back then, the Chinese people got around mostly by rickshaws and bicycles. The country had only

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