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Dec 24, 2024 | 
expresso.pt | Yasheng Huang
No seu comovente discurso de concessão, a vice-presidente dos EUA e candidata democrata à presidência, Kamala Harris, apelou aos seus apoiantes para que não cedam ao desespero. Ela disse: “A luz da promessa da América irá sempre brilhar enquanto nunca desistirmos e enquanto continuarmos a lutar”. Outros democratas proeminentes, como o governador da Califórnia, Gavin Newsom, reiterou o seu desafio.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
project-syndicate.org | Yasheng Huang
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Yasheng Huang
Aa Aa Aa - A + BOSTON – In her moving concession speech, US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris urged her........ © Project Syndicate visit website
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May 2, 2024 | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Simon Shuster |Ian Fritz |Yasheng Huang |Sarah Scoles
The writing community is abuzz about the cancelation of the 2024 PEN America Literary Awards. After over a third of authors withdrew their books for consideration, the organization saw no choice but to back out of their annual public celebration of winners. Authors have taken this dramatic, collective action as a form of protest against PEN America for the organization’s silence on the genocide in Gaza.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Yasheng Huang
Economics China East Asia In the late 1990s, Keyu Jin got a taste of what she calls the West’s “simplistic understanding of life in China” while attending high school in New York.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
archive.is | David Gerard |Michael Beckley |Hal Brands |Yasheng Huang
Review Three books explore the failures of regulators—and sometimes journalists. February 18, 2024, 7:00 AM By David Gerard, the author of the book Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and the cryptocurrency and blockchain news blog of the same name.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Yasheng Huang |Andrew J. Nathan |Zongyuan Liu |Axel Dreher
In This Review In This Review The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its DeclineThe EAST in Huang’s title stands not only for China but for the four keys to its history listed in the subtitle. The imperial examination system dating back to the sixth century forced aspiring elites to unite around the single goal of service to the state.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
qoshe.com | Yasheng Huang
On 7 and 8 June 2023, close to 13 million high-school students in China sat for the world’s most gruelling college entrance exam. ‘Imagine,’ wrote a Singapore journalist, ‘the SAT, ACT, and all of your AP tests rolled into two days. That’s Gao Kao, or “higher education exam”.’ In 2023, almost 2.6 million applied to sit China’s civil service exam to compete for only 37,100 slots.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de | Yasheng Huang
Lesezeit: 7 min Die wirtschaftliche Transformation Chinas zeigt einen Wandel hin zur innovationsgetriebenen Wirtschaft. Die Vorstellung, dass Demokratie und marktbasierte Finanzierung Voraussetzungen für Innovationen sind, wird in Frage gestellt. Jedoch spielen hier ausländische Domizile, insbesondere Hongkong, eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Bereitstellung wesentlicher Elemente für das Wirtschaftswachstum. Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser, diese Funktion ist den Abonnenten der DWN vorbehalten.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
almendron.com | Yasheng Huang
As China’s economy steadily grew in recent decades, its advocates championed the country as an antithesis—and an antidote—to liberal economics and politics. This argument seemed credible as China grew rapidly under an autocratic and economically statist system. At the same time, the United States—that beacon of Western democracy—was suffering from economic and political sclerosis.
