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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author of “The Perfect Weapon,” David Sanger, shares his new account of America’s plunge into simultaneous conversations with two very different adversaries at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont this Saturday at 6 p.m.
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What would you do if your ambitious career suddenly transformed into a deadly game of international espionage? Ashley Yablon’s new book is "Standing Up to China: How a Whistleblower Risked Everything for His Country."
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer stopped by the SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges Of Nanoscale Science And Engineering in Albany Tuesday, launching a new push to limit the use of Chinese-made semiconductor chips.
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Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey discussed his recent trip to Taiwan, South Korea, Cambodia, and the Philippines at a press conference in Boston Tuesday.
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Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of the novel “A River of Stars” and a story collection, “Deceit and Other Possibilities.”In her new novel “Forbidden City” (Ballentine Books) – it’s the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution and sixteen-year-old Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished village. It is only when Mei arrives at the Chairman’s opulent residence—a forbidden city unto itself—that she learns that the girls’ job is to dance with the Party elites.
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Erich Schwartzel has reported on the film industry for The Wall Street Journal since 2013. His new book "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" is an eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business in the high-stakes contest between the U.S. and China.
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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. Jing Tsu, a Yale professor and world-renowned authority on East Asian languages joins us to discuss her new book, "Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern."
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Perhaps this is somewhat sports adjacent, but there’s one sport that I can almost guarantee China will fall behind the rest of the world. And that sport is competitive gaming, which, depending on your perspective, either is or absolutely is not part of the greater competitive sports complex.
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Journalist Geoffrey Cain joins us this morning to tell us about his new book "The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying…
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One thing 2020 will be remembered for: the emergence of the face mask as a way to help protect against COVID-19.Facemarks masks first became ubiquitous…