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The bombing that demolished a Jewish community center in Argentina 20 years ago has continued to leave its mark on the nation. Following the tragic attack, the governme...
Karl Marx long ago disparaged religion as “the opiate of the people,” and now the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to ban all addicts. The Communist leadership o...
Matt Sheehan writes and consults on topics connecting China and California. He worked as the China correspondent for The WorldPost from 2014 to 2016, and lived in the c...
A year ago, few outside of China knew the name Jack Ma. Today, he’s the most sought after man at Davos. The founder and face of Alibaba Group, “the Steve Jobs of Ch...
Smog has darkened Beijing’s skies and sullied the city’s reputation, but northern China’s persistent pollution plague is now getting more artful treatment from on...
Matt Sheehan writes and consults on topics connecting China and California. He worked as the China correspondent for The WorldPost from 2014 to 2016, and lived in the c...
BEIJING — Fourteen-year-old Mao Baolong wears a goofy grin as he pinballs up and down the restaurant’s cramped aisle — taking orders and delivering bowls of noodl...
BEIJING — Attacks with scalding water, a bomb threat and a half-hearted suicide attempt — all in one plane ride. Mark this down as one of the most bizarre stories i...
Matt Sheehan writes and consults on topics connecting China and California. He worked as the China correspondent for The WorldPost from 2014 to 2016, and lived in the c...
Hong Kong is slowly returning to normal. Even as student leaders begin a hunger strike, the Umbrella Movement’s two-month experiment in spontaneous street democracy i...
BEIJING — Recently, two of China’s most infamous digital pirates breathed their last when YYeTs.com and Shooter.cn, websites providing crowdsourced Chinese subtitle...
BEIJING –- Global advocates for free markets cheer each time China opens up a new sector of its economy to competitive pricing. But recent media reports reveal that m...
Hong Kong police have begun clearing barricades and making arrests around the most volatile site in the city’s ongoing pro-democracy demonstrations. After a generally...
BEIJING –- President Barack Obama had barely finished shaking Chinese President Xi Jinping’s hand to seal this week’s landmark climate agreement before the predic...
BEIJING — Turkey Day and Santa Claus might spur Americans to shop till they drop, but China’s hundreds of millions of online shoppers have their own reason to blow ...