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Last year, many people wore politically defiant costumes during Halloween in Shanghai; this year, the police clamped down on celebrations. We verified social media videos and talked to people in Shanghai about their Halloween experience. w/ Vivian Wang 👉nytimes.com/2024/10/29/wor…

The Israeli military has demolished hundreds of buildings in Lebanese border villages, our new The New York Times investigation shows. We counted at least 1,085 buildings destroyed/badly damaged, flattening one village and reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble: nyti.ms/3C4sAfr

NEW: This week, ChinaPower released an in-depth report analyzing China's Joint Sword-2024B military drills and other activities. This is the 4th large-scale exercise around Taiwan in just over 2 years, and came after William Lai's 10/10 Speech. chinapower.csis.org/china-taiwan-j…

In July, Wagner suffered its biggest defeat in Africa. Our visual investigation, using satellite imagery, battlefield footage and firsthand accounts, shows a moment-by-moment breakdown of what happened — and the fallout with families in Russia. nyti.ms/3Yx2Orx

grateful to Rolling Stone for giving me the generous space to share my reporting. It’s a bit long, so bear with me.

nytimes.com/2024/11/11/wor… @NYTimes

we travel better when we can talk openly about the things that make it hard

At least 35 were killed after a man drove into crowd in Zhuhai, China. “…the wealth of the vast majority of households is shrinking and that will inevitably cause a lot of social tensions,” said Victor Shih nytimes.com/2024/11/12/wor…

Selling products on livestream video is a big business in China. The latest e-commerce trend, known as "blind box livestreaming," offers the thrill of potentially winning more prizes for a low cost. Here's how it works. nyti.ms/3Z6E8I0

Made to the The New York Times thanks to my live-streaming shopping habit😂. A dopamine filled piece of great storytelling! Muyi Xiao 肖慕漪

“People are looking for alternative ways to engage in the consumption economy without a huge hit to their wallets,” said Ivy Yang 杨方曦, an e-commerce analyst. “You want to have something that is kind of a cheap thrill.” Muyi Xiao 肖慕漪 Claire Fu nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Here’s the opening frame of the subsea cables piece.

The senior US official said Taiwan may have become overly alarmed because it had more capabilities than in the past to detect what China was doing. ft.com/content/025a81…

My holiday contribution to the “you can just do things” discourse linebyline.game