Melissa Chan
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Baby Formula Marketing Practices Are Still Too Aggressive
While American mothers can’t find enough formula, a new WHO report details why parents are getting too much in other parts of the world. → Read More
China is regularly called ‘authoritarian.’ That doesn’t feel like enough.
Consider the hallmarks of fascism: a surveillance state with a strongman invoking racism, nationalism, and traditional family values at home, while building up a military for expansion abroad. → Read More
Nathan Law’s Lesson for Democracies
The exiled Hong Kong activist makes a case for fighting global authoritarianism in a new book. → Read More
‘I Never Thought China Could Ever Be This Dark’
Leaving Xinjiang has not meant Uyghur women are free of Beijing’s grasp. → Read More
"The Madman Theory" Argues Trump's Impulsive Tactics Rarely Work
“The Madman Theory” hands Trump a foreign-policy report card. → Read More
How Bolsonaro’s risky bet on China in the Amazon could backfire
Last October, he visited Beijing and declared that Brazil and China “were born to walk together.” → Read More
The West Is About to Fail the Coronavirus Test
China made huge mistakes managing the outbreak. The rest of the world may not do any better. → Read More
Once, we voted with our feet. Now, it’s time for us to speak up for Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong diaspora knew this day would come — but we never wanted it to. → Read More
Give the millions of Hong Kong protesters a Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee would have to consider China’s ire. → Read More
The rise of the killer robots – and the two women fighting back
Jody Williams and Mary Wareham were leading lights in the campaign to ban landmines. Now they have autonomous weapons in their sights → Read More
Beijing Trained Me to Cover Trump’s America
Reporters need to start treating DC like a foreign posting. → Read More
I was an out-of-line reporter in China. Like Jim Acosta, I paid a price for it.
As someone who had my press credentials denied by China, an authoritarian country, I never thought I would see the United States revoke a reporter’s entry to the White House. → Read More
Cuban Communism Is at Its Reform-or-Die Moment
The country’s first non-Castro president in over 50 years has only one path to legitimacy. → Read More
Angry about Comey’s firing? Good. China shows us the dangers of creeping cynicism.
Trump governs by whim rather than reason. It's an approach that's painfully familiar to the Chinese. → Read More
Trump’s Top China Expert Isn’t a China Expert
Peter Navarro doesn't speak Chinese, and has scant in-country experience. Should that matter? → Read More
Is The White House Beginning to Resemble Zhongnanhai?
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, January 28, 2017. Also pictured in the Oval Office of the White House (from left): White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, and Press Secretary Sean Spicer. → Read More
Is The White House Beginning to Resemble Zhongnanhai?
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, January 28, 2017. Also pictured in the Oval Office of the White House (from left): White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, and Press Secretary Sean Spicer. → Read More
Trump’s China tweets are just tough talk
A trade war would be damaging for the US, and the president-elect is likely to need Beijing’s help with North Korea. Wait until he’s in office → Read More
UC Merced stabber Faisal Mohammad was carrying ISIS flag
The freshman who stabbed four people at a California college was carrying around an ISIS flag during his stabbing spree. → Read More
Secret military operation at LAX to divert flights overnight
Secret overnight military operations at LAX will force flights to fly over homes this week, airport officials said Friday. → Read More