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Mary Yang’s Biography

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Mary Yang is a reporter at Foreign Policy with a focus on Southeast Asia, Asia, and island nations. She is also a writer for The Yappie, a publication on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) politics and activism, where she leads the newsletter—a bi-weekly round-up of the issues most relevant to members of the AAPI community.

Mary has also reported on Capitol Hill as a congressional reporter for Medill News Service. There, she covered affordable housing and transportation policy, but also…

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Why Do Caribbean Countries Want to Leave the Monarchy Now?

Why Do Caribbean Countries Want to Leave the Monarchy Now?

Officials in at least six countries in the Caribbean where Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is head of state have…

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Reports of Russian Atrocities in Ukraine Are Just the Beginning

Just over a month ago, the small city of Bucha was a leafy suburb like any other. Affluent and dotted with pa…

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What Putin's Past Says About Ukraine's Future

What Putin's Past Says About Ukraine's Future

Russian President Vladimir Putin's modus operandi in Ukraine has been grounded in an assertion of genocide ta…

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Southeast Asian Traders Are Paying the Cost of China's Border Policies

Southeast Asian Traders Are Paying the Cost of China's Border Policies

Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-minus a representative from military-…

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Sanctions Won't Undo Myanmar's Coup

Sanctions Won't Undo Myanmar's Coup

The United States has unveiled new sanctions against Myanmar's military junta, almost one year after a milita…

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Equity, accessibility top infrastructure priorities, Transportation Department says

Equity, accessibility top infrastructure priorities, Transportation Department says

WASHINGTON -- Making public transit more accessible, cleaning up pollution in low-income neighborhoods and re…

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China's help critical, but unlikely, for US to choke off Iran

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By Isabel Kua, Mary Yang Verified
| Yahoo Singapore Verified
The United States has threatened the "economic asphyxiation" of Iran, but analysts say that a successful chokehold would require unlikely cooperation from China. Almost six months into the Middle East war, Washington this week laid out plans to expand sanctions against the Islamic republic, warning that any nation which continued to enable Tehran would become a "global pariah".
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Evergrande’s Xu Jiayin: from real-estate tycoon to life in prison

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By Mary Yang Verified
| Macau Business Verified
Once China’s richest man, disgraced property tycoon Xu Jiayin looked worn as a court in China handed the now white-haired Evergrande founder a life sentence on Thursday. The 67-year-old, known as Hui Ka Yan in Cantonese, was convicted of a list of crimes including fraud, bribery and embezzlement relating to his leadership of Evergrande Group, the country’s biggest real estate conglomerate before it defaulted in 2021. Xu’s rags-to-riches ascent mirrored the country’s economic rise.
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Robots sort packages and serve fast food at Beijing showcase

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By Mary Yang Verified, Luna Lin
| Japan Today Verified
Robots sorting parcels and serving fried chicken enthralled visitors at a robotics expo in Beijing, where hundreds of companies set out their pitches for a future labor market transformed by artificial intelligence. The Chinese government has embraced robotics as a strategic industry, and local firms have plowed resources into the development of embodied AI.
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