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China Bureau Chief @WSJ . Formerly of Seoul, New York and Hong Kong bureaus. jonathan.cheng @wsj .com

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Yuzuru Hanyu’s Chinese fans, armed with banners and Winnie the Pooh dolls, waiting outside the skating venue here in Beijing
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South Korea's largest-circulation newspaper this morning: "Angry Whites Overturn America"
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Breaking: K-pop boy band BTS is scheduled to perform and give a three-minute speech in front of top officials and heads of state at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, KBS reports, citing unnamed sources.
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The power of the BTS fandom: After T-shirt controversy, an ambitious examination of what happened, what didn't and how it played out—by "ordinary BTS fans who believe in the power of knowledge and discussion." @teamwhitepaper @doolsetbangtan @doyou_bangtan
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It's the K-pop Olympics. Pyeongchang torch relay included Suzy (formerly miss A), VIXX's N and Leo, Super Junior's Donghae and Yesung, Sandara Park (formerly 2NE1), Girl's Day, AOA, Soyou, etc. Performing at the closing ceremony: EXO and CL. @TamarWrites
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6 years
And here it is: the English-language translation of N. Korea's latest statement, taking aim pretty clearly at John Bolton.
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No Tillerson? No problem. S. Korea's foreign minister, originally scheduled to meet Rex in Washington, will meet Ivanka instead.
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WSJ editorial board: "New satellite photos show that Kim Jong Un is continuing to develop his nuclear weapons program…This wasn’t supposed to happen after the Donald Trump-Kim summit last month in Singapore."
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Diplomats from twenty-five countries at the Canadian embassy in Beijing this morning for the Spavor verdict.
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Former Australian PM Tony Abbott: "The answer to almost every question about China is India. Although currently not as rich as China, as a democracy under the rule of law…India is perfectly placed to substitute for China in global supply chains."
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Xi Jinping signaled late Wednesday that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples. 'We are ready to continue our cooperation with the United States on panda conservation.'”
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In Wuhan, doctors are being stretched to the limit, asked to stop a global pandemic that no one fully understands, risking their own health while they attend to sick patients—along with their own family members. “My tears wouldn’t flow.”
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Jonathan Cheng
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"The English did not bring political democracy to Hong Kong, but they did bring the common law and its belief in and practices for subjecting government to the rule of law." @jeromeacohen
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Jonathan Cheng
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Soon after Donald Trump took office, people with ties to the Chinese state poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into his re-election bid to get close to and potentially influence the new president. Big investigation by @BrianSpegele
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Jonathan Cheng
2 years
China’s most popular Olympian may be a Japanese figure skater. Two-time gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu’s devoted following in China flies in the face of history and geopolitics; "His face is like jade, his body is like a pine tree" @shashamimi
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
Chinese dissident Yang Jianli: "By ensuring a prolonged fight at minimum cost, the [Hong] Kong people have not only gained time for themselves, but also set a hopeful example for mainland China: put up a fight and you may not necessarily lose!"
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Jonathan Cheng
5 years
Pope Francis has competition, and his name is Kang Daniel.
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
AP with a pretty big, unbylined piece about China imposing abortions, sterilizations and IUDs on its Muslim population. "The practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known…demographic genocide.” “They want to destroy us as a people.”
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Jonathan Cheng
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Red Velvet Seulgi on Pyongyang performance: "They called all of us ma’am and called Irene the leading ma’am. They had researched us beforehand. They greeted me by saying, ‘Aren’t you Miss. Kang?’ and said, ‘Aren’t you Red Velvet’s leading ma’am?’ to Irene”
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Jonathan Cheng
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"Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen, was sentenced to ten years in prison for 'providing intelligence overseas'…It should sound an alarm for any visitors considering going to China—you too might become a Chinese citizen unwittingly." @china_neican
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Jonathan Cheng
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Has the coronavirus killed Hong Kong’s protests? One answer: "There is a high probably there will be a resumption of major protests of some form after the fear of infection from the coronavirus lessens." @jwassers
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Jonathan Cheng
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German soccer star Mesut Özil, a devout Muslim of Turkish heritage who plays for Arsenal, is the latest to risk China's wrath, posting rather pointedly on Beijing's treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang. @JoshRobinson23 @gauthiervillars
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Jonathan Cheng
5 years
Guardian op-ed: "I'm a Blizzard gamer. I am boycotting them over their Hong Kong censorship…What Blizzard gains in revenue from China, it must lose from the rest of the world."
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Jonathan Cheng
6 years
The declaration
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NYT op-ed: "Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong…have been able to interrupt the chain of…transmission. And they have done so without embracing the highly disruptive, drastic measures adopted by China. Their success suggests that other governments can…too."
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Jonathan Cheng
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Pompeo on Hong Kong election delay: "There is no valid reason for such a lengthy delay. It is likely…Hong Kong will never again be able to vote—for anything or anyone. This…confirms that Beijing has no intention of upholding the commitments it made."
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Jonathan Cheng
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"It could escalate into the most sensitive political situation that Adam Silver has faced in his five years as NBA commissioner…the Rockets and the NBA risk a strong backlash in the U.S. if they apologize or punish Morey." @bzcohen @felixliuworld
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Jonathan Cheng
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Epidemiologist and Hong Kong government adviser writes column saying it's okay to call it the “Wuhan coronavirus” and adding there's no evidence the virus came from the U.S.—then retracts it and apologizes. "Maybe no one loves the country more than I do."
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Jonathan Cheng
6 years
Four points of the Trump-Kim Declaration: 1. The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new U.S.-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.
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Jonathan Cheng
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Fresh out the oven: Chinese authorities have seized and sold tens of millions of dollars in assets owned by jailed Uyghur business owners—from home appliances to 30-story buildings—much of it on Alibaba's Taobao platform. @wsjeva
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Jonathan Cheng
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@shashamimi Nathan Chen won the gold medal in men’s figure skating singles on Thursday. But only Yuzuru Hanyu drew crowds of Pooh-clutching fans expressing their undying love for him on the streets around Capital Indoor Stadium. @shashamimi @lizalinwsj @TByGraceZhu
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Jonathan Cheng
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Reuters, citing "a source with direct knowledge of the matter," says Beijing could intervene in issuing work visas for foreign journalists in Hong Kong. Says China's Foreign Ministry: “Visa issues are a matter of national sovereignty." @jamespomfret
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
Overheard in Hong Kong: "We used to have three groups: the opponents, the supporters, and the silent…[But now] the silenced will still be silent, the opponents will all have been arrested, and so only the supporters remain.” @maryhui
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Jonathan Cheng
6 years
Kim Jong Un, via the Blue House: "There were two different clocks in the reception hall at Peace House. One was for Seoul time and the other for Pyongyang time, which made my heart heavy…Let’s first unify the two different times of the two Koreas.”
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Jonathan Cheng
5 years
Washington Post columnist @joshrogin : "If the Rockets, the most popular NBA team in China, can be banned over a tweet, there’s no mystery why the rest of the league is running scared."
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
Across China, millions stayed up well past midnight tracking the condition of Dr. Li Wenliang, a young doctor who was among the first to warn about the coronavirus—and who became infected with it. He died just before 3am @Chao_Deng @joshchin @raffaelehuang
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Jonathan Cheng
6 years
There it is.
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Jonathan Cheng
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"U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, a China hawk," will introduce new bill to automatically give Hong Kong residents aslyum in the U.S. “Victims of communism will always find refuge in the United States."
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Jonathan Cheng
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The Economist: "Japanification is too mild a diagnosis of China’s ills. A chronic shortfall in growth would be worse in China because its people are poorer. Japan’s living standards were about 60% of America’s by 1990; China’s today are less than 20%."
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Jonathan Cheng
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A federation of medical staff unions has threatened strikes if Hong Kong's government doesn't escalate efforts to contain the disease. “Morale among medical staff is low…They worry they won’t even have enough medical equipment to protect themselves.”
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Jonathan Cheng
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China’s 40-Year Boom Is Over. What Comes Next? The economic model that took the country from poverty to great-power status seems broken, and everywhere are signs of distress. @Lingling_Wei and @yifanxie take a big step back.
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Jonathan Cheng
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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: “We will stand up loudly and clearly for human rights…Whether it’s talking about the situation faced by the Uighurs, whether it’s talking about…Hong Kong, whether it’s calling out China for its coercive diplomacy.”
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Washington Post editorial board: "If this horror is not ended soon, the entire world must ask: Should China be allowed to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in one city while running concentration camps in another?"
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
A big Reuters report on growing fears among Hong Kong judges that Beijing will intervene in selecting justices to the city's top court. “We’re worried that they are losing patience, and will find ways of tightening the screws." @GregTorode @jamespomfret
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Jonathan Cheng
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Kevin Rudd: "Under Xi, ideology drives policy more often than the other way around. Xi has pushed politics to the Leninist left, economics to the Marxist left, and foreign policy to the nationalist right…Xi’s rise has meant…the return of Ideological Man"
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Washington Post editorial board: "If an authoritarian nation bars a social network from operating on its territory, as China and now Russia both do for most platforms, the social network should bar that nation’s state-run media from its turf, too."
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Jonathan Cheng
1 year
Henry Kissinger to The Economist: "I have never met a Russian leader who said anything good about China. And I’ve never met a Chinese leader who said anything good about Russia, they are sort of treated with contempt."
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Hanyu's Chinese fans have been rooting for him every step of the way. “The ice doesn’t hate you. You are a child of snow and ice. Don’t blame yourself, babe,” read one widely-liked comment on Weibo by a user called “ICU Pill.” @shashamimi
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U.S. national security advisor Robert O'Brien: “If not a genocide, something close to it going on in Xinjiang…The Chinese are literally shaving the heads of Uighur women and making hair products and sending them to the United States.”
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Jonathan Cheng
1 year
The U.S. Energy Department has concluded Covid most likely arose from a lab leak, according to a classified report provided to members of Congress, reflecting how different U.S. entities have arrived at disparate conclusions. @mgordonwsj @wstrobel
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Jonathan Cheng
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4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
Agricultural officials across the U.S. have launched probes after residents received unsolicited packages of seeds that appear to have come from China. “If they are invasive or contain plant pests or disease…that is our greatest concern.” @jessenewman13
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
In Taiwan, the polls are open, and the stakes are high. If Taiwan picks the wrong leader, it could end up like Hong Kong, said one 33-year-old salesman in Kaohsiung who plans to vote for Tsai Ing-wen. @ByChunHan @joyuwang
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Jonathan Cheng
6 years
The great thing about the S. Korean women's curling bandwagon is that it's big and inviting, with plenty of room for the stone-and-broom skeptics to jump aboard. Heck, we only joined 96 hours ago ourselves. @hj257
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Jonathan Cheng
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Paul Krugman: "Exactly how China’s bubble will end isn’t clear—it might be a sharp slowdown, or it might be a period of 'low quality' growth that masks the true extent of the problem, but it won’t be pretty." @paulkrugman
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Jonathan Cheng
5 years
"Never in Hong Kong’s history has a protest movement enjoyed such widespread support…Popular mottos include…'Together we climb the mountain, each in our own way,' conveying solidarity between radical front-line protesters and moderate, peaceful ones."
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Jonathan Cheng
5 years
Translation: Most of the Twitter accounts taking aim at @dmorey over Hong Kong/Houston-related controversy in the past day or so don't appear to be from real people.
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I analyzed recent tweets with "NMSL" (abbrev. for Chinese "Your mom died"), targeted mostly at @dmorey over his HK tweet. Here "target" = reply 2 another person's tweet w NMSL Most accounts (total ~5800) tweeting NMSL were created recently, w very few followers and engagements.
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Jonathan Cheng
5 years
"Just before the Group of 20 summit's final session, Trump approached Moon and asked him whether he saw a related Twitter message…Moon replied, 'Yes,' and told Trump, 'Let's try together,' according to Cheong Wa Dae. Trump gave him a thumbs-up, it added."
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
Overheard in Hong Kong: “I won’t be surprised if a few months down the road they will be put on TV and give a ‘confession’…The fate of these people can be the fate of us in the future.” @xinwenfan @jingyanghk
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
Cardinal Zen has questions for the WHO
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U.S. to China: You should desist from your provocative and unsafe conduct against the Philippines in the South China Sea, or else we may have to invoke U.S. mutual defense commitments under Article IV of the 1951 U.S. Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty.
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Jonathan Cheng
6 years
3. Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
Pompeo: "I’ve been terribly surprised that the Democrats haven’t talked about foreign policy enough with no mentions of China, the single-greatest challenge to the United States…Donald Trump called it early; he talked about it during his campaign in 2015"
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Jonathan Cheng
6 years
"The document, which Mr. Trump described as 'very comprehensive,' provided almost no particulars on how to make the denuclearization process complete, verifiable or irreversible—long-stated U.S. goals." @MichaelCBender @mgordonwsj
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Jonathan Cheng
11 months
Joe Biden called Xi Jinping a dictator on Tuesday and said Xi was embarrassed by Balloongate. "That's a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn't know what happened. That wasn't supposed to be going where it was. It was blown off course."
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Jonathan Cheng
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Mike Pence, in Hawaii: “I know that President Trump is grateful that Chairman Kim kept his word…we see today as tangible progress in our efforts to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula." Jim Mattis: "We don’t know who’s in these boxes." @PeterWSJ
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Jonathan Cheng
11 months
"Vietnam has banned Warner Bros' highly-anticipated film 'Barbie' from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows China's unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea."
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Jonathan Cheng
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2. “The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.”
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Jonathan Cheng
5 years
The NBA's unwanted debut in China-Hong Kong politics comes at a pretty inconvenient moment: LeBron James is taking his talents to Shanghai and Shenzhen this week, while NBA commissioner Adam Silver is set to arrive any day now too. @bzcohen @felixliuworld
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Jonathan Cheng
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Bloomberg: A decade ago, a Chinese-built light-rail system was hailed as a solution to Addis Ababa's transportation woes. Today, frequent breakdowns and operational constraints mean barely one-third of its 41 trains are operational.
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Jonathan Cheng
10 months
China to 1.4 billion people: We're going to need everyone involved in counter-espionage work. Everyone. A system that makes it "normal" for the masses to participate in counter-espionage must be established, the Ministry of State Security wrote on Weibo.
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Jonathan Cheng
6 years
Chloe Kim, who the S. Korean media has basically adopted as their very own, wipes away tears as she accepts the gold medal—er, stuffed tiger—on the podium.
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Jonathan Cheng
5 years
"S. Korea had been one of relatively few developed nations to outlaw abortion except in cases of rape, incest or in a narrow range of instances linked to health issues. Women can face up to a year in prison or a fine up to about $1,750." @_eunyoungjeong
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Jonathan Cheng
6 years
Don't panic. Just FYI, six U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters have arrived in S. Korea to stage simulated attacks on mock N. Korean nuclear and missile targets and transporter erector launchers that move the North's missiles.
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Jonathan Cheng
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. @eosnos : "China at the end of Xi’s first decade is…a nation slipping from motion to stagnation and, for the first time in a generation, questioning whether a Communist superpower can escape the contradictions that doomed the Soviet Union."
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
If "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" is going to have Hong Kong protesters on there, then it's not going to have anyone from mainland China on there. @teamlipei
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
TikTok founder Zhang Yiming, long an admirer of Silicon Valley, always wanted the company he created to be seen as global. But not this way, as his company is dragged into the U.S.-China geopolitical morass. Big WSJ profile by @lizalinwsj @evawxiao .
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Jonathan Cheng
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"If that was a lie, then during Trump’s term, S. Korea will not trust whatever Trump says.”
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False Narrative on U.S. Aircraft Carrier Elicits Jeers in Asia
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Jonathan Cheng
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Elon Musk: I believe China is “on Team Humanity” and would be willing to work on common guidelines to regulate the "civilizational risk” of artificial intelligence. Rep. Mike Gallagher: I see China as being more on “Team Genocidal Communism.”
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Jonathan Cheng
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Janet Yellen says she ate magic mushrooms in Beijing. "The person who had arranged our dinner did the ordering…There was this delicious mushroom dish. I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties. I learned that later." h/t @ewong
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Jonathan Cheng
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"The proportion of foreign residents in China is approximately 0.05%, which is significantly low for the world's second-largest economy. It lags behind…Japan and S. Korea…It is even lower than countries like Laos…and Cambodia."
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Jonathan Cheng
7 years
S. Korean authorities now confirming that this nuclear test was 9.8 times as powerful as last year's test, the previous biggest.
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기상청 "北인공지진, 작년 5차 핵실험의 9.8배 위력…역대 최강", "통상 지진 규모 0.2 오를 때 위력 2배 증가…역대 핵실험 압도"
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Hong Kong's national security law is coming to the Ivy League classroom. Princeton, Harvard and UPenn are creating new mechanisms to protect students' identity so they can freely discuss Hong Kong, Xinjiang and other China-sensitive topics. @Lucy_Craymer
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
There's been a lot of focus on @WSJ in China, so offering a thread of our news bureau's coronavirus coverage, starting with a Jan. 8 scoop that first named the then-mysterious pathogen as a "novel coronavirus." @WHO confirmed it Jan. 10. @natashakhanhk
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Jonathan Cheng
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How does a Korean boy band sell 12,500 concert tickets in two hours…in Chile? Here's how. @Jeff__Benjamin
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Jonathan Cheng
5 years
Some Hong Kong teenagers attended Saturday's protest for the first time. "I told my parents I was working part time at McDonald’s," said Gigi, a 16-year-old high-school student. "I felt I was doing a grave injustice by staying indoors." @Preetika_Rana
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Jonathan Cheng
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China: We are a developing nation and will always be a developing nation. U.S. Senate: You're a developed nation and we're going to make sure the rest of the world agrees with us.
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Jonathan Cheng
1 year
Protests are erupting in several major cities in China over Xi Jinping‘s zero-tolerance approach to Covid, an unusual show of defiance in the country as the economic and social costs from snap lockdowns and other strict restrictions escalate. @Lingling_Wei
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Jonathan Cheng
4 years
Wuhan police punished eight people for sounding the alarm early on the coronavirus. Now, China's top court is standing up for them. "It might have been a fortunate thing if the public had believed the ‘rumour’ then and started to wear masks." @Junmai1103
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Jonathan Cheng
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Top U.S. diplomat for East Asia on China's alleged attempts to “wipe out” Mongolian and Tibetan culture, "repression” in Xinjiang and a “draconian” Hong Kong security law: “These are not the actions of a responsible global actor, but a lawless bully."
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Jonathan Cheng
11 months
China and Cuba have reached a secret deal for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island, in a new geopolitical challenge from Beijing, according to U.S. officials familiar with highly classified intelligence. @wstrobel @glubold
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Jonathan Cheng
2 years
As inflation soars around the world, China has kept it at bay. Consumer prices there increased just 1.5% in March from a year earlier. By contrast, the U.S. annual inflation rate was 8.5% in March and 7.5% in 2021, the steepest since 1982. @yifanxie
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Jonathan Cheng
6 months
"Foreign firms operating in China are not only declining to reinvest their earnings but—for the first time ever—they are large net sellers of their existing investments…Outflows exceeded $100 billion in the first three quarters…and are likely to grow."
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Jonathan Cheng
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for patience in a speech released as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a deepening economic slump and said Western countries are “increasingly in trouble” because of their materialism and “spiritual poverty.”
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Jonathan Cheng
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In July 2016, Hideji Suzuki got out of a taxi at Beijing airport when five men shoved him into a white van. Mr. Suzuki had visited China 200 times as head of a Japan-China friendship group. “In a civilized country, this shouldn’t happen.” @miho_inada
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