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“It provides the clearest and most convincing explanation of how information is controlled in today’s China. This is especially valuable because most ideas about censorship in China rest on fundamental misunderstandings.”

Such a strange story on so many dimensions...

The capitalist government calls itself communist and teaches communism but crushes students who act like communists instead of capitalists. Students who call themselves communists but act like capitalists are okay though unless they also act like democrats nyti.ms/2NPExM6?smid=n…

The way most global maps are drawn makes countries away from the equator appear artificially large (because it projects a round globe onto a flat map). This animation shows how countries would look in true size: Via Randy Olson reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…

If you are interested in our #VoxDevTalks series, take a look at all of them! A big thanks to Tim Phillips Talk Normal for being such a great partner with VoxDev on these. audioboom.com/channels/49707…

Cool piece VoxDev on media bias. "Increasing competition in newspaper mkt has meant that propaganda through the mktplace has become less effective." In response Chinese govt switched to social media for propaganda (more concentrated & directly regulated) voxdev.org/topic/institut…

“Maybe it’s no coincidence,” Ms. Lafrenz, now 99, told Der Spiegel. “We are dying out and at the same time everything is coming back again.” nyti.ms/2yXovGo?smid=n…

The Land That Failed to Fail — a remarkable series on China by ⁦Philip P. Pan⁩ on ⁦The New York Times⁩ nyti.ms/2Duc480?smid=n…

The earth’s economic centre of gravity took nearly 2000 years to move to Europe. It is just taking 50 years to go back to Asia.

The brand-new chapter on behavioral development economics by Michael Kremer, @raogautam, and @FrankSchilbach is now online! Heroic piece of work that will help the field set the agenda for the coming years. economics.mit.edu/files/16499

“About 6 million Chinese either suffer from or have already died from pneumoconiosis, or dust-caused lung damage that includes silicosis.” reuters.com/article/us-chi…

Chart showing which country appeared most in New York Times headlines every month since 1900: pudding.cool/2018/12/countr…

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After 30 years, a former People’s Liberation Army journalist who saw the Tiananmen massacre is speaking out: "Everyone who took part must speak up about what they know happened. That’s our duty to the dead, the survivors and the children of the future.” nyti.ms/2I23i1L

#hongkongers are making history today. All lanes of the Hennessy Road - including those which police refused to open before - are flooded by protesters against the #extraditionbill South China Morning Post

1.03 million (1 out of 7) people took to the street in Hong Kong today to protect its autonomy. Largest protest turnout since 1989! Collective actions are the most spectacular scene that demonstrates the power of mankind.

We wrote this 2 years ago, becoming even more relevant today. China's trilemma in Hong Kong -- paradoxically, protests are absolutely critical to the stability of Hong Kong’s political equilibrium. blogs.lse.ac.uk/management/201…

Another gigantic protest in HK today. Do you head the people sing? Singing a song of angry men.

Wait til 25s when night falls. Civil liberty shines through one of the most impressive urban backdrops.