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Taiwan Cuisine and What it Says About Taiwanese Identity

Taiwan is a self-ruling island of 24 million people that is officially known as the Republic of China. Only about a dozen countries recognize it as a nation because China […]




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Comparing Responses from ChatGPT and China’s AI Chatbot Ernie 

“How does the United States affect the situation in Taiwan?”Ernie ducked the question about China’s “zero Covid” restrictions, offering a lengthy description of the policy instead. When asked to recount […]




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China’s ‘Absurd’ Covid Propaganda Stirs Rebellion

“We have won the great battle against Covid!”“History will remember those who contributed!”“Extinguish every outbreak!”These are among the many battle-style slogans that Beijing has unleashed to rally support around its […]




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‘Reversing Gears’: China Increasingly Rejects English, and the World

As a student at Peking University law school in 1978, Li Keqiang kept both pockets of his jacket stuffed with handwritten paper slips. An English word was written on one […]