This article was produced in collaboration with ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Are Chinese citizens happy with the direction their country is taking? Do they believe in a market economy? Do they believe that hard work brings success? Each year, the American think tank Pew Research Center asks questions like these to over 300,000 [...]
It barely registered in the International media, but plans by the Russian parliament to prevent officials from holding assets abroad have made waves in the Chinese media, and found vociferous support in the Chinese blogosphere. Online, discussions centred around a post on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, by investor and online personality Charles Xue (@薛蛮子) laying out the [...]
As if there were ever any doubt. Surprising no one, Vladimir Putin was re-elected to a third term as Russia’s president. The news hit the wire at 5:00 a.m., Beijing time. As @翠婷1990 described, “I woke up around 6 o’clock or so, as soon as I opened Weibo Putin was all over my screen.” As [...]
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