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Rachel Lu’s Biography

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Rachel is a senior editor at Foreign Policy magazine. She was born in Chengdu, China. Prior to founding Chinese media analysis site Tea Leaf Nation, which was subsequently acquired by the FP Group, she practiced corporate law in New York and Hong Kong, and worked as a sovereign risk analyst. She holds a law degree from Harvard University and an Economics and International Studies degree from Yale University. She has appeared on media outlets including BBC television and Public Radio Internation…

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China's Real Inconvenient Truth: Its Class Divide

China's Real Inconvenient Truth: Its Class Divide

Solving China's air and water pollution will require addressing the gap between rich urbanites and rural peas…

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Why 700 Million People Keep Watching the Chinese New Year Gala, Even Though It's Terrible

Why 700 Million People Keep Watching the Chinese New Year Gala, Even Though It's Terrible

The Chinese New Year Gala, which aired live on Feb. 18 on Chinese Central Television (CCTV), is a four-and-ha…

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Secrets to Rearing a Chinese Superbaby

Secrets to Rearing a Chinese Superbaby

HONG KONG - Giving birth is never easy, but for new Chinese mothers, the month following a baby's arrival is …

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Resistance Is Futile

Resistance Is Futile

HONG KONG - A chill has gripped Hong Kong. The Occupy Central movement, which advocated for open nomination r…

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A Turning Point in the Fight for Hong Kong

A Turning Point in the Fight for Hong Kong

HONG KONG - Future generations may well commemorate Sept. 28, 2014, in the history of Hong Kong as the day wh…

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For Alibaba's Small Business Army, a Narrowing Path

For Alibaba's Small Business Army, a Narrowing Path

As Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba plans an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange exp…

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What Comes After the Nation-State?

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By Rana Dasgupta, Graham McAleer, Rachel Lu
| Law & Liberty Verified
After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order is one of many new books aiming to diagnose the historic end of American hegemony. The book differs from others of its kind by arguing that today’s shift in global affairs is not on account of a renewal of great power rivalry. Freshly, the award-winning writer Rana Dasgupta argues that the cause is rather the end of the nation-state as a platform for global order. In the long history of the world, the nation-state is anomalous.
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New Modes and Orders?

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By Michael Lucchese, Lee Oser, Rachel Lu
| Law & Liberty Verified
In his fine essay “Modernity and Its Discontents,” Lee Oser offers several “theses” regarding the age in which we find ourselves. The whole piece is full of profound insights about our present condition, but perhaps its greatest virtue is that it is no hidebound reactionary condemnation of modernity itself.
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The Providential Declaration – Paul Seaton

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By Steven Sarson, Paul Seaton Verified, Rachel Lu
| Law & Liberty Verified
Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Penn. (Shutterstock/S... more Steven Sarson uncovers the Declaration's colonial context, but misses its soul. On its own terms, historian Steven Sarson’s The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States is an iconoclastic effort of rereading and retrieval.
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