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NPR correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Now DC-based. My book "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom" is now out: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724947/let-only-red-flowers-bloom-by-emily-feng/

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习近平同美国总统特朗普通电话_腾讯新闻 新华社快讯:11月24日晚,国家主席习近平同美国总统特朗普通电话。 ​​​

Trump and China's Xi Jinping have had a phone call - no details yet from either Beijing or Washington view.inews.qq.com/a/20251124A0...

24.11.2025 14:38 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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A tale of two Chinas: Tech industry booms as workers face dim prospects In China, two economic realities exist side of by side. The country's fast-growing technology sector is now leading the world in some aspects. Yet prospects for the average Chinese worker remain dim.

A tale of two Chinas: Tech industry booms as workers face dim prospects

www.npr.org/2025/11/24/n...

24.11.2025 12:17 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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🔊 Listen Now: How one group is turning mushroom's bioelectricity into music All Things Considered on NPR One | 3:16

This is exactly the kind of content I want

How one group is turning mushroom's bioelectricity into music one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5606...

23.11.2025 15:48 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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50 notable works of nonfiction from 2025 The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

I’m honored my book Let Only Flowers Bloom is a notable book of the year from the @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

21.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The growing problem with China’s unreliable numbers Beijing’s GDP figures have drawn scrutiny for years but the questions have become more acute

“We can’t stress enough how abnormal this is for an
economy of any significant size,” noted economist Jonathan Anderson in a report this year.” www.ft.com/content/5b9e...

18.11.2025 15:27 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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CPB agrees to revive a $36 million deal with NPR killed after Trump's pressure The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.

CPB revives $36 million NPR deal killed after Trump’s pressure

www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...

18.11.2025 02:37 — 👍 53    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1
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King of the Aral Sea • EQUATOR A Central Asian travelogue

'“He is the liberal gentleman, coming from the civilised, wealthy, modernised, free world – but from China, this time, rather than the United States or the United Kingdom.” The old vantage points fall away." www.equator.org/articles/kin...

17.11.2025 14:05 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s Regular Press Conference on November 17, 2025

Syria's foreign minister is visiting Beijing today. A top issue during his meeting earlier with Wang Yi was the presence of Uyghur fighters in Syria.

Contrary to reports, Syria has said emphatically today that it will not deport the Uyghurs to China.
www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xw/f...

17.11.2025 13:58 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Sudan’s lost children wander through a landscape of death Around 200 unaccompanied children have arrived in the Sudanese town of Tewila after escaping El Fashir, where RSF fighters have carried out mass killings.

“Over half of all those displaced are under the age of 18,” Fletcher said. “I challenge anyone who is boasting about aid cuts to come here and speak to these people.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

15.11.2025 22:37 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Alaska station that covered devastating storm cuts jobs A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.

A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department. n.pr/4qVulQV

15.11.2025 10:26 — 👍 298    🔁 118    💬 13    📌 4
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What Was the American Revolution For? Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.

In the 1970s, National Public Radio, with generous funding from the N.E.H., staged a yearlong series of three-hour Saturday-morning call-in programs called the “American Issues Radio Forum.” .lhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/what-was-the-american-revolution-for

14.11.2025 21:24 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | China Looks Strong. Life Here Tells a Different Story.

“That muscular facade is punctured here in China, where despair about dimming economic and personal prospects is pervasive.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

13.11.2025 18:55 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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Cancelled Chinese film festival in New York latest example of Beijing pressure campaign, says organizer A film festival showing movies that are hard to see outside China went dark after many of the directors who were supposed to take part suddenly backed out.

On Here and Now with the fab Scott Tong to talk broadly about transnational repression and economic coercion globally www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

13.11.2025 18:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Tycoon gambling suspect extradited to China for trial Police took dual Chinese-Cambodian national She Zhijiang from Klong Prem Central Prison in Bangkok to Suvarnabhumi airport on Wednesday for extradition to China and trial on online gambling charges.

The case of She Zhijiang could have been lifted from the pages of a spy thriller - and in fact, She claims he was a spy for China.

Beijing tried to extradite him...now Thailand has complied, the day before the Thai king visit to China.
www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...

13.11.2025 13:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A New Global Scene for Independent Chinese Film On November 6, the IndieChina Film Festival announced its cancellation because of pressure from authorities on China-based filmmakers and participants.This November, two unrelated festivals of indepen...

Ironic and sad - written just days before the festival was cancelled: "Films like this cannot be screened publicly in China. But this year’s film festivals will, according to Shelly Kraicer, “insist that independent Chinese film voices continue to be heard..."

www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...

13.11.2025 13:27 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Film festival organizer cancels event, citing pressure from China's government The director of a Chinese-language film festival in New York City says he's been forced to cancel the event because of pressure from the Chinese government on the films' directors.

First came the call from his own parents. Then dozens of cancellations came pouring in.

How the director of an inaugural film festival in New York City...came under pressure from China to cancel the festival in the U.S.
www.npr.org/2025/11/13/n...

13.11.2025 13:25 — 👍 15    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.

Wild story www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

12.11.2025 15:56 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Carlson’s War: Part 1 : Up First from NPR What does it mean to live through war? And can someone who’s experienced war ever get over it? These are questions NPR’s Quil Lawrence has been asking himself for years. A decade ago, Lawrence did a...

Just finished part 1 and part 2 of this very moving, 10-year long saga @quillawrence.bsky.social has been reporting with a U.S. war vet
www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...

11.11.2025 15:49 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Daughter Explores Her Father's PTSD, From Vietnam Until Today NPR's Kara Frame traces her father's PTSD, and those of his Army comrades, back to a terrible battle in Vietnam. In a short documentary film, she also explores the impact it's had on their families.

Sharing from a colleague on today's Veterans' Day: an old interview about a very moving film on her father, a Vietnam vet, and the PSTD he was burdened with

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11.11.2025 15:48 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Thieves steal ancient Roman-era statues from Syria's national museum Officials say thieves have broken into Syria's national museum in Damascus and stolen several ancient statues from the Roman era.

Terrible news...I love this museum and found great joy in visiting at the end of long reporting trips this year in Syria.
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11.11.2025 14:18 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Great to be at University of Chicago on such a fine fall day before the first snows

10.11.2025 23:00 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Dalai Lama created a Tibetan capital in exile in India. It's shrinking For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala, India, and sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai Lama. That's now changing.

For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala, India, and sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai Lama. That's now changing.

10.11.2025 00:52 — 👍 126    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 2
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Emotional Glimpses of an Immigration Crackdown in a San Diego Courthouse Federal officials use the building for check-ins that can end with immigrants being detained. Clergy members and volunteers have been watching for months.

www.nytimes.com/card/2025/11...

09.11.2025 02:24 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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In Chinese American Families, There’s a Generational Split on Mamdani

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"In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong...

Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election."

07.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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The Xi Jinping School of Journalism • Articles • EQUATOR The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter

this is the best story I've ever read on what it's like working (as a PRC citizen) in state media in China, and also extremely good on Mongolian ethnic tensions.

www.equator.org/articles/the...

07.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 71    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 1
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Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

04.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 1767    🔁 637    💬 39    📌 252
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Edward Cody, globe-trotting correspondent at The Post, dies at 82 He reported on conflicts and disaster zones from Mexico to Lebanon. “Rarely in a career do you enjoy a task that is so solitary and intense,” he wrote.

"“Rarely in a career do you enjoy a task that is so solitary and intense, so concentrated and vivid as that of a foreign correspondent." www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

04.11.2025 16:37 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

“In September 2024, the university informed Chinese state security that it would not be publishing a final phase of research on forced labour in China. “Immediately, relations improved,” an administrator wrote.”

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

03.11.2025 20:11 — 👍 28    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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A temporary calm in the U.S.-China trade war after Trump–Xi meeting A highly-anticipated meeting between president Trump and Xi Jinping leads to a pause - but not an end - to trade and tech competition issues.

A highly-anticipated meeting between president Trump and Xi Jinping leads to a pause - but not an end - to trade and tech competition issues.

www.npr.org/2025/11/01/n...

02.11.2025 13:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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He Stayed in Belarus for His Imprisoned Wife. Now He’s Locked Up, Too.

“Last October, almost four years after his wife’s arrest, the Belarusian riot police came for him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...

02.11.2025 13:49 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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