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Shanghai's Auto Show: 'Rough Around the Edges'

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Rob Schmitz
Apr 22, 2011
"It's more chaotic," auto analyst Michael Dunne told me, comparing this week's Shanghai auto show to shows in the US. "It's a little rough around...
Posted In: auto show, Shanghai
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Psst... Where's the Revolution?

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Rob Schmitz
Mar 10, 2011
No jasmine here. I've put the blogging on hold to focus on a reporting trip up North in Beijing (more to follow on that front)...
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Help Wanted in the World's Workshop

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Rob Schmitz
Feb 17, 2011
The photo on the left was taken two days ago by the China Daily outside the train station in Liwu, Zhejiang province--the manufacturing hub of th...
Posted In: China, rob schmitz
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China-Taiwan Reunification? Not Tonight. I've Got a Headache.

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Rob Schmitz
Feb 11, 2011
Perhaps Yuan Yuan and Tuan Tuan weren't the right names. But that's what the Chinese government named a male and a female panda it loaned to Taiw...
Posted In: China, panda, Taiwan, Tuan Tuan, Yuan Yuan
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China's Netizens Help Reunite Father and Son

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Rob Schmitz
Feb 10, 2011
Here's a story that challenges the commonly-held notion in the West that the Chinese don't care much for coming together for a charitable cause (...
Posted In: abduction, microblog
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Gong Xi Fa Cai: Marketplace China Bureau Survives Relentless Fireworks Attack

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Rob Schmitz
Feb 3, 2011
I recently reported on the arduous start to the journey home for many Chinese migrants during the New Year holiday. Now that many have made it ho...
Posted In: Chinese New Year, fireworks, Rabbit
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Maverick, Goose...and CCTV

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Rob Schmitz
Feb 1, 2011
One of my favorite China-related stories the past week has been the revelation that state broadcaster CCTV allegedly used footage from the 1984 ...
Posted In: China
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Shanghai's Blue Skies Are But a Smoggy Memory...

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Rob Schmitz
Jan 26, 2011
November 1st, 2010: The view from my office disappears. After living in an industrial region of China in the 90s, my lungs kn...
Posted In: air pollution, smog, World's Fair
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China Goes Home

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Rob Schmitz
Jan 20, 2011
There's a lot to think about when you're standing in line for two days. And, by and large, you're more willing to talk to a foreign reporter abou...
Posted In: China
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Update: Wuxi's Land Grab

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Rob Schmitz
Jan 18, 2011
A month ago, I blogged about the case of Ding Hongfen, a woman in the Yangtze Delta city of Wuxi. Her family was forced out of their home to make...
Posted In: China

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