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China Soft-Power Watch, Chapter 29,167
From the Guardian just now: This is really a shame, in every possible way. Melissa Chan of Al-Jazeera (right, from Al-Jazeera's site) has done excellent work from China, which I've made a point of...
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Flying Blind Through the Mountains of Hunan
A harrowing air trip provides a memorable introduction to life in China. pfflynn/Flickr [Note: The following story is an excerpt from James Fallows's new book, China Airborne, and is published here as...
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'The Flight to Zhuhai,' Illustrated Edition
The item posted a few minutes ago on this site, which is part of the 'China Takes Off' special coverage we are featuring this month, is drawn from the introduction to my book China Airborne, whose...
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What Is the Chinese Dream?
The nation may have larger-than-life ambitions, but it hasn't figured out how to win over the world. A policeman patrols outside the Chinese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo site (Aly Song/Reuters)...
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'The Chinese Dream' and the Complexities of China's Ascent
This morning, the Atlantic put up a second excerpt of my China Airborne book, as part of our China Takes Off special coverage this month. For the record, Popular Science also has an excerpt (on how...
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Policy Announcement: Book Promo News
The fun part of writing a book is when you're thinking about it, learning, meeting people, doing research. The unpleasant part is the actual writing. Some people say they "like" writing. To me, that's...
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Glad That's Cleared Up! China Soft-Power Watch #29,168
The proudly nationalist Global Times has reassuring news for those concerned about the denial of a visa for Melissa Chan, the (excellent) China correspondent for Al-Jazeera, who will soon be leaving...
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No One Asked Me, but ... (Obama on Same-Sex Marriage)
... I am surprisingly moved by Barack Obama's discussion just now of his "evolved" position on same-sex marriage. I agree with Ta-Nehisi Coates's immediate reaction: that this was a particularly...
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Book News: Diane Rehm Show, plus Philadelphia
As mentioned yesterday, here is the first in a series of book-tour and book-promo announcements.I will be on the Diane Rehm show, from WAMU in Washington, starting about 90 minutes from now, at 11am...
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Historical Note on the Romney-Haircut Story
This is a for-the-record historical observation, since (alas!) I am about the only one on Team Atlantic in a position to offer it.I am just a few years younger than Mitt Romney (also Bill Clinton and...
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Peter David of the Economist
On Monday of this week, I sat next to Peter David, Washington bureau chief of the Economist, at a dinner at the Atlantic's headquarters, in which we heard the CEO of Boeing talk his industry's future...
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Book News: DR Show Podcast, 'Economist' Review, Live Chat Text
As mentioned earlier, soon I'll have a standalone page on our site for info related to my new book China Airborne. For the moment, I'm putting it here. 1) Diane Rehm show podcast. I enjoyed being on...
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More on the Haircut, in Context
I mentioned yesterday that picking on "sissies" seemed a familiar part of 1960s-era American high school life as I remembered it, while cutting off someone's hair did not. Many people have written in...
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The Chart to Accompany All 'Jobs, Jobs, Jobs' Discussions
Numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, graph from Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The spike in "total employment" (including government) in early 2010 is presumably Census hiring. The...
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Book News: Zocalo, Rand Forum, Chinese Movies
Other people's travel problems are not interesting™, and thus I will go easy on my latest misadventures* at the hands of United Airlines. I will say, though, that if I see you either at a Zócalo event...
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Filibuster and False-Equivalence Fiesta
News has piled up fast about the filibuster in the past two weeks, and I am way behind in taking note of it. While I have ten minutes at a computer just now -- and am not in a taxi, in a security line,...
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Book News: Pushback, Videos, Lists
Given that today is Official Publication Day for China Airborne, I am erring on the side of adding some updates. As promised, I will move these items off the "main" site and onto a standalone book-news...
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Iran Drumbeat Watch: Rand Weighs In
After a 5 am airport checkin, my thoughts naturally turn to: Armageddon, despair, the bleak inevitabilities of life. Though on the brighter side, the TSA operation at San Diego turns out to have an...
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A Scam I Can't Quite Figure Out
This is not exactly a page from the Glamorous Life of a Journalist chronicles. But it's similar in being a note sent to me in my capacity as guy who works at a magazine. The picture of baby bulldogs...
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Book News: Seattle, Phoenix, Asia Sentinel, Malaysia
As promised, will move these to a standalone site when we eventually get one up and running, but until that occurs:1) Silicon Valley Thanks to Jonathan Weber, long ago my boss at the Industry Standard...
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