Laurie Chen
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China correspondent @Reuters, past lives in Hong Kong and London. I like dim sum and scoops. Views my own. [email protected]
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Joined November 2015
Pleased to announce that I've joined @Reuters in Beijing as a China correspondent, covering politics and general news, after three unforgettable years at AFP. Very excited to get stuck in to a fascinating beat! Do send tips, coffee invites my way: laurie.chen@thomsonreuters.com.
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History, triumph and trauma to take centre stage at China's WW2 military parade
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Airport scanners at office entrances, road closures for large-scale midnight rehearsals, drones banned, guards stationed 24/7 on all overpasses: Beijing has effectively paralysed its urban core for a...
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RT @rozlatiff: Chinese President Xi Jinping is unlikely to attend a major summit of Asian leaders in October, sources said, dashing expecta….
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is unlikely to attend a major summit of Asian leaders in October, two people familiar with the matter said, dashing expectations of a potential meeting with U.S. Presid...
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Is historically arid Beijing ready for a wetter future?
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During last month's deadly floods in Beijing, rural hotel owner Cui Jian and his guests spent the night stranded on a rooftop in torrential rain before rescuers battled through metre-high mud and...
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Exclusive: Second senior Chinese diplomat detained for questioning, sources say
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A deputy to a prominent Chinese diplomat being questioned by authorities was also detained, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a further sign of uncertainty in the top echelons of...
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Exclusive: US embeds trackers in AI chip shipments to catch diversions to China, sources say
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U.S. authorities have secretly placed location tracking devices in targeted shipments of advanced chips they see as being at high risk of illegal diversion to China, according to two people with...
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Israel strike kills Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
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A prominent Al Jazeera journalist, who had previously been threatened by Israel, was killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike in an attack condemned by journalists and rights groups.
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Prominent Chinese diplomat Liu Jianchao taken for questioning, sources say
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Senior Chinese diplomat Liu Jianchao, widely seen as a potential foreign minister, was taken away by authorities for questioning in early August, five people familiar with the matter said.
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US government turmoil stalls thousands of export approvals, sources say
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Thousands of license applications by U.S. companies to export goods and technology around the globe, including to China, are in limbo because turmoil at the agency in charge of approving them has...
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Several US executives to visit China this week: sources
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A high-level delegation of American executives will travel to China this week to meet senior Chinese officials in a trip organised by the U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC), two sources with...
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Expectations are rock-bottom for an EU-China summit on Thursday that will test European resolve and unity as the bloc faces intense trade pressure from both Beijing and the United States.
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Expectations are rock-bottom for an EU-China summit on Thursday that will test European resolve and unity as the bloc faces intense trade pressure from both Beijing and the United States, analysts...
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Six-week-old Yousef's lifeless body lay limp on a hospital table in Gaza City, his skin stretched over protruding ribs and a bandage where a drip had been inserted into his tiny arm. Doctors said the cause of death was starvation.
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Six-week-old Yousef was among 15 people to starve to death in the last 24 hours in Gaza, according to doctors.
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Industrial pruning won't pull China out of deflation as quickly as last time
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China's hardened rhetoric against price wars among producers is raising expectations Beijing may be about to kick off industrial capacity cuts in a long-awaited, but challenging, campaign against...
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MP Materials unveiled a multibillion-dollar deal with the U.S. government on Thursday to boost output of rare earth magnets and help loosen China's grip on the materials used to build weapons, electric vehicles and many electronics.
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MP Materials unveiled a multibillion-dollar deal with the U.S. government on Thursday to boost output of rare earth magnets and help loosen China's grip on the materials used to build weapons,...
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Activists urge the government to implement a content rating system for visual media and written publications, as well as creating more defined legal criteria for what constitutes "obscene" works and determining the scope of their reach.
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"Men who write pornographic fiction enter the China Writers' Association, whereas women who do the same go to jail," read a popular meme on RedNote, where the "Haitang" hashtag drew over 205 million views and 1.8 million posts before it was censored in June.
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"In a country that emphasises socialist morality, people's concept of sex is influenced by the prevailing culture, so of course it is linked to freedom of speech," said a lawyer defending one author. "Wasn't 'Dream of the Red Chamber' also obscene at the time?".
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The detentions since March have triggered debate on social media about the limits of free speech and the apparent sexist nature of the crackdown, while stirring sympathy for the authors, many of whom hail from low-income backgrounds.
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Police in China have detained dozens of young women authors in a genre of gay erotica widely known in Asia as "boys' love" during a nationwide crackdown on online pornography, lawyers and activists familiar with the cases say.
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Police in China have detained dozens of young women authors in a genre of gay erotica widely known in Asia as "boys' love" during a nationwide crackdown on online pornography, lawyers and activists...
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RT @lewjackk: China's Commerce Ministry said in May that unspecified overseas entities had "colluded with domestic lawbreakers" to evade it….
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Unusually large quantities of antimony - a metal used in batteries, chips and flame retardants - have poured into the United States from Thailand and Mexico since China barred U.S. shipments last...
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RT @fbermingham: EXCLUSIVE. Wang Yi told Kaja Kallas that China cannot afford for Russia to lose the war in Ukraine, otherwise the US will….
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Wang Yi speaks of concern that US could shift whole focus in China’s direction in talks with top EU diplomat Beijing.
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