Fan Wenxin
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China reporter. Alum of WSJ, Bloomberg News and NYT. x.com/xinwenfan
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Weeks before Zelensky said men from China are fighting for Russia, a tenacious Chinese journalist spoke to one. For NPR, I interviewed Chai Jing. A decade ago, she had the attention and emotions of millions of viewers at CCTV. Now she's back, to YouTube, prompted by a weird move from censors.
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1/My colleague Fu Ting writes on a recent new, but unnoticed clampdown on independent bookstores in China - and how some are finding new homes overseas. At least a dozen have shuttered the past few months alone, with the owner of one arrested:
apnews.com/article/chin...
As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas
Independent bookstores have become a new battleground in China. They're getting swept up in the ruling Communist Party’s crackdown on dissent and free expression.
apnews.com
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Another car ramming in China, at a primary school in Hunan this morning.😱