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An Ordinary Man, a Senseless Knife Attack

From Caijing Magazine: Workers at a Hangzhou instrument gauge factory in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province remember Tang Yongming as an ordinary colleague who liked to joke and play cards at a local tea house. Tang could be...

Rah-Rah Diplomacy: Win or Lose, Chinese Are a Cheerful Bunch

The Washington Post reports: The Chinese, it turns out, are going wild over the Games. Through two days of full competition in Beijing, Chinese spectators have displayed just the sort of enthusiasm that officials hoped to see...

A Stabbing Rooted in Loss and Despair

The New York Times looks at the life of the man who is blamed for killing an American tourist in Beijing for the Olympics: The killing has provoked hand-wringing and heated debate on the Internet. Some people fretted that it...

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