Steven Lee Myers
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New York Times in California. Previously in Beijing, Moscow, Baghdad and DC. Author of "The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin" https://t.co/krGqyYud1Y
Joined April 2009
The F.B.I. has searched a suspected Chinese police outpost in New York’s Chinatown. Such outposts are unnerving diplomats and intelligence agents who fear they are being used to keep tabs on Chinese nationals abroad.
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Beijing says the outposts aren’t doing police work, but Chinese state media reports say they “collect intelligence” and solve crimes far outside their jurisdiction.
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Her recent public appearances marked the first time Pyongyang confirmed that Mr. Kim had a child. Until her debut in state media, ordinary North Koreans had never seen any of Mr. Kim’s children.
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Her appearances in state media, most recently in undated photos released on New Year’s Day, have triggered growing speculation about succession plans in the country.
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On today’s Daily, I talk to @stavernise about a Russian soldier who was sent to Ukraine with a 1960s era rifle and little else. He survived a massacre of his platoon and now says the war is based on a mountain of lies. But he plans to return to the fight
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As the war against Ukraine rolls on, it has become increasingly clear that this was not the Russian Army anyone expected.
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Competition for China’s civil service jobs is so fierce that ppl often refer to them as “thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge.” But for those who got the jobs, some felt that their days were ruled by rigid hierarchies and monotonous chores.
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With youth unemployment high, millions will take this month’s Civil Service exam. But for those who get jobs, the reality can be monotonous work that blurs the line with personal lives.
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"As long as the two have the U.S. as their shared common threat, the convergence of their interests will outweigh the divergence."
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Russia is isolated by its invasion of Ukraine and needs China more than ever. But China, facing a Covid crisis, is in no position to risk sanctions.
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Currently at Twitter: - Seattle office faces eviction - people are bringing their own toilet paper to work as janitorial services are cut - workers scrambled to deal with the aftermath of a data center shutdown on Christmas Eve @RMac18
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Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending.
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In Ryazan, I spoke to the mother of a killed soldier. She said she thought the invasion “should have been planned better,” to minimize losses, but she expressed no anger at Russia’s leadership. “Something had to be done,” she said, referring to Ukraine.
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Ryazan, not far from Moscow, regularly sends young men off to fight. Some are now buried in the local cemetery, but there is no surge of outrage against Russian leaders.
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We've spent ten months reporting from inside Ukraine. With secret battle plans and interviews with Russian soldiers, here now is the story of what Putin's war looks like on the other side: a calamity of historic proportions with no end in sight. https://t.co/QJpKhp4b9y
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Secret battle plans, intercepted communications and Russian soldiers explain how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for Russia.
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“I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”
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The social media service, which is owned by Elon Musk, said that it suspends accounts that “violate the Twitter rules” but did not provide details.
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In 2009, I wrote an impassioned defense of Seoul after it made a Lonely Planet "cities you really late" list that called it "oppressively bland." The city has since blossomed into a truly vibrant destination. Come eat, drink, hike and see for yourself: https://t.co/6yAPWlaZU0
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Hike fortress walls without leaving the city limits, go to an “LP bar” and enjoy stir-fried intestines at a baseball game: only in Seoul.
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A sluggish economy continues to leave many young in China unemployed, decreasing jobs and opportunities. The frustration/anxiety worsen as students’ social experiences being robbed by covid @daiwaka @QianIsabelle @amy_changchien
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A sluggish economy continues to leave many young people unemployed, with few job prospects or hopes to tap into the rising incomes their parents enjoyed during boom times.
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Among those arrested was a man who had tried to make contact with representatives of the Russian government over the plans...
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Among those detained were a German prince, a former far-right member of Parliament, an active soldier and former members of the police and elite special forces.
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TV Rain, an independent Russian channel in exile in Latvia, is engulfed in the biggest crisis of its turbulent 12-year history, with Latvian and Ukrainian commentators accusing the station of supporting Russia’s war effort.
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A news host’s comment about helping troops prompted the Latvian authorities to revoke the license of TV Rain, a major independent outlet, putting a focus on the public role of Russians who fled.
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Xi Jinping, China’s leader, will travel to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for summits with leaders from across the Middle East, a region where U.S. allies are growing closer to China. He is expected to sign contracts with the Saudis and other Gulf States.
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Xi Jinping’s trip, which will include three regional summits, aims to deepen a relationship with Gulf States that has grown far beyond oil.
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Computer science students and recent grads are confronting a shrinking Big Tech job market.
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A new reality is setting in for students and recent graduates who spent years honing themselves for careers at the largest tech companies.
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We have an exclusive this morning on a new report that documents extensive links between the global auto industry and the Xinjiang region, where the Chinese government has carried out a brutal crackdown on Uyghurs and other minorities
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A new report on the auto industry cites extensive links to Xinjiang, where the U.S. government now presumes goods are made with forced labor.
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Some of the cruise missiles that Russia launched at Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure in late November were manufactured months after the West imposed sanctions, according to a weapons research group.
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Weapons investigators in Kyiv found that at least one Russian Kh-101 cruise missile used in widespread attacks there on Nov. 23 had been made no earlier than October.
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The end of Zero COVID may finally be in sight. But what do three years of the basic inability to plan for tomorrow do to people’s ambition and optimism? I spent two weeks in Guangdong — one of the most dynamic parts of China — trying to find out:
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The world’s harshest Covid restrictions exemplify how Xi Jinping’s authoritarian excesses have rewritten Beijing’s longstanding social contract with its people.
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The authorities in China are using the country’s powerful surveillance apparatus to find those bold enough to defy them. “If they want to find us, they can definitely succeed,” said a protester who received a call from police. w/@paulmozur @fu_claire
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After a weekend of protests, the authorities in China are using the country’s all-seeing surveillance apparatus to find those bold enough to defy them.
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Utterly fascinating @ChuBailiang @miwine obit on how Jiang Zemin made modern China as we know it
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Mr. Jiang, a wily and garrulous politician, presided over a decade of meteoric economic growth in the post-Tiananmen era.
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