Correspondent with North Dakota News Cooperative. @NDNewsCoop As of April 2022, back in the US after 16 years in China. Reach out at [email protected]

Bismarck, North Dakota
Joined September 2008
Two former star real-estate brokers and their brother were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking, after a hearing in which about a dozen women spoke about the impact those crimes had wsj.com/us-news/law/alexande… via @WSJ
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"Dictator" is likely one of the kinder relevant descriptors. "Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, said an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives" the-independent.com/arts-ent…
At least three Chinese firms are cutting ties with French soccer star Kylian Mbappé, after he made some comments apparently referring to Mao Zedong, the founding leader of Communist China, as a dictator. Read more: abcnews.link/jV172NL
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In our new What China's Thinking column, the political scientist Lin Yao explains why some Chinese intellectuals admire Trump, how the meaning of liberalism has shifted, and mutual misunderstandings between China and America. Read Yi Liu's latest Q&A now: chinabooksreview.com/2026/10…
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