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Trump Banned Three Newsrooms. The Real Scandal Is What Took So Long.
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Last Friday, Trump announced on Truth Social that he was “proud” to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds, calling their…
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Everyone Agrees China Has the F-35 Parts. Nobody Can Agree on Who Handed Them Over.
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UPDATE (September 25, 2026, 3:45pm HKT): Sources have confirmed that CEVA acted as the freight forwarder and selected UPS, who mistakenly sent the parts via…
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Free for Five Days: The Wound That Never Closed: Taiwan, China, and the End of Strategic Ambiguity
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The Wound That Never Closed is free on Amazon for five days, beginning the afternoon of September 23.
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Spellcheck Never Required a Confession
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LinkedIn added an “AI slop” button a month or so ago. If you click the three dots on any post, there is now an option…
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I’m American, But Hong Kong Is the Real Melting Pot
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Order a yuenyeung at Lan Fong Yuen on Gage Street, the dai pai dong that’s been running the same eight-step brewing technique since 1952, and you’ll get a cup…
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The Taiwan Story Everyone’s Suddenly Covering, and the Seventy Years Nobody Explained First
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Xi Jinping lands in Washington today for his first visit to the White House in eleven years, and by every account I’ve read from people…
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How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People
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A practical guide, field-tested over roughly a decade, with results you can expect to replicate at your very next family dinner. Step One: Bring a…
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“This Is Just Hong Kong”: How I Stopped Fearing Chungking Mansions and Fell in Love With It
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I have to confess something that took me years to admit, even to myself. For most of my life, I thought I knew what happened…
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The Squeeze: How Hong Kong’s Taxis Are Losing a War Nobody Asked Them to Fight
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I have written before about the theater of hailing a Hong Kong taxi, the U-shaped hand gesture under an imaginary harbor, the window rolling down just…