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In Honor of the Chinese ADIZ, Today's Novelty Aviation Footage
This is not part of the Chinese ADIZ. The planning behind, and consequences of, China's expansion of its Air Defense Identification Zone, or ADIZ, in the East China Sea remain obscure. Of the various...
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Free to the Right Owner: A Five-Star Resort in Western China
Part of the village of Yellow Sheep River, at harvest time. That's a fiber optic cable, part of the effort to modernize rural China, running through the middle of the scene. This and next photo by...
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Chessmaster or Pawn: Now, It's China's Turn
Everyone knows the "chessmaster or pawn" puzzle. As applied to President Obama's leadership style, it's the question of whether he is thinking five steps ahead of his adversaries, luring them into...
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Events: Pritzker; Simon, Doctorow, Gessen, & Nafisi; Kummer & Levenson
In the world of modern journalism, sometimes you are traveling around and learning things as a reporter; sometimes you are sitting in a room and going crazy as a writer; and sometimes you get to ask...
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'Unsavory Elements' in Reddit AMA
Unsavory Elements is a new book of reflections, tales, and memoirs of China by 28 foreigners who have lived there. It's edited by Tom Carter, and among the contributors is my wife Deb, known to the...
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Afraid of Free Speech, on Many Fronts: PEN, Google, China, Goliath
From left: Atlantic moderator, Doctorow, Nafisi, Gessen, Simon. Twitter photo by @David_MSullivanOn Wednesday afternoon, as previewed earlier, I got to serve as moderator for a panel of four very...
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'Springbok, Cleared for Landing': More on the Language of the Skies
Real Time Flight Tracking via Flightradar24. Sunday 10:30 AM ET, Dec. 8, 2013By Deborah Fallows. [See update* below.] On our recent flight home in our small plane from Eastport ME, to Washington DC, we...
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PEN, Google, China, Goliath: A Follow-Up
Statement from today's Reform Government Surveillance ad.These follow last week's item on various ramifications of free and controlled speech around the world: 1) I said that when it was available, I...
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Mike the Cat
We take animals into our lives knowing that, in the normal course of events, we will see them leave. Over the ages people have written about the satisfactions and heartbreak of this cycle. When I was a...
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'50 Social Innovations That Changed the World'
In my article accompanying our "50 Greatest Inventions [since the wheel]" project last month, I said that since such a list was inevitably arbitrary, its real value would be the discussion it provoked...
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China Aviation Update: Let's Look on the Bright Side
On the bright side, another barrier removed as China progresses toward aerospace eminence! As reported by a writer for my favorite newspaper, the China Daily, more people will soon be able to learn to...
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Your Thursday Night Reading List
1) Washington football melodrama and American Futures, together at last. I am on the other end of the country from our nation's capital, on another American Futures journey, about which more details...
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American Futures Heads West
Through the month of November, my part of the American Futures convoy was in the hangar, because of two long-haul business trips I was making, to Australia and China. John Tierney and Deb Fallows have...
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When Rails Make the Difference, From Down East to the Southwest
[Introductory note from JF: As mentioned two days ago, my wife and I are now in Southern California, in my original home town of Redlands, applying the "what makes a city resilient?" test to a place...
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Reports from the Road: Hangar 24 and a Student-run Farm
It's been a very long day of interviewing and visiting, and before an early start tomorrow and some "real" reports on this next American Futures stop, here's a shot from one of the moments that makes...
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North Korea, Iran, and the NPT
The "Great Successor," via Kyodo and NPR.A few days ago I recommended an article on China by Shlomo Ben-Ami and one on Iran by Robert Hunter, both of which hold up well and which, if you missed them, I...
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Today's Aviation Videos
The image above, the aviation- & retro-California-themed label for one of Hangar 24's popular beers, is the slender-reed connection between where I am at the moment, reporting in Redlands, and the...
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Inside the Packing House
I mentioned yesterday that it was surprisingly odd to visit, as a reporter, a place I thought I knew by heart. It turns out that I didn't -- or that it has changed, or that you see different things...
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On the Limits, but Also the Power, of Local Narratives
The WPA-era historic Redlands City Hall, now a police station, in Southern California. That's the base of an enormous flagpole at the right. Photo, yesterday, by Deborah Fallows.This afternoon, Friday,...
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A 4th-Generation Orange Farmer, on Why He Sticks It Out
This afternoon Marketplace will have an American Futures report on Redlands, California. This smallish town still styles much of its identity around its orange-growing industry, even though its...
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