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In case you haven't been following along, I'm in Macau for a few days. Macau was handed back to China 27 years ago in 1999...two years after China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997. One would think that over three decades that behavior would
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"Enshittification" is a sort of "safe horny" term for what is really just outright impoverishment and declining living standards due to economic insolvency from deindustrialization, demographic decline, hyperinflation, etc. You are just de-developing and becoming poor. -Marko Jukic on X "Enshittification" is a
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Rewards and discounts are everywhere. Credit rewards are well-known in the West and especially the USA where 3-5% cash back on certain spending is not unheard of. Here in Hong Kong where credit cards are less generous, 1.5% cash back is generally the highest unlimited option. If
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Today is the 77th birthday of the People's Republic of China. I've been celebrating the birthday of my adopted home for almost 2 decades. It's been absolutely mindblowing to watch the progress of the nation over that time period. Every year is bigger and
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When people visit China, they often proclaim how safe it is. Deliveries are frequently left on a table outside hotels or housing on the side of the street or in the lobby and no one worries about their lunch or package being stolen. You can leave your phone, computer and
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I previously wrote about my experience getting blood tests in a Chinese public hospital and how fast, efficient and inexpensive the whole process was. One of the things that struck me was how much better and more accessible healthcare is in the Chinese mainland than two decades ago when I
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This evening, I popped up to Shenzhen to watch the recently released Chinese anti-war movie Once upon a time in the Middle East (欢迎来龙餐馆). It's the story of a Chinese chef who moves to a fictional country in the Middle East to work in a restaurant and
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The world's largest deployment of App Clips is in China.
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Chinese cities aren't making the same mistakes American cities made.
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Another article about another American leaving China. This one is a weird one though. But from 2023 — a time of widespread pressures on local government finances following three years of virus restrictions and a property slowdown — he was asked instead to pay closer to market rent. Given that his visa
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On a rainy day in China with visitors from abroad, one of the best forms of entertainment is free: test driving Chinese EVs. Today, I test drove China's largest EV SUV, the 5.4 meter long NIO ES9 "Executive" SUV. It has 697 hp and is
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China energy expert David Fishman penned a masterful analysis and refutation of the theory that China is closing the path that earlier generations of developing countries took to industrialization. This theory is all the rage in western policy circles and most recently espoused in a wildly shared article in Foreign