Tea Leaf Nation

It’s 2013 in China already, where the clock runs 13 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard Time. As cheers erupted from Beijing to Shanghai to Chengdu, wishes and reflections for the new year also rained down on Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blogging platform that is the equivalent of China’s largest public square. A search on [...]

Well-known environmentalist and frequent micro-blogger Liu Shengjun’s (@刘胜军改革) plane just touched down in Hong Kong, and he loves the place. He tweeted the following:  “Today I arrived in Hong Kong. A free city; a hard-working city; a city with very low taxes; a financial center; a city with no controls on speech and therefore with [...]