> The fact of the matter is that the youth in China have a better future to look forward to than the youth in my country, and I’m fucking upset about that.

You mean China’s youth have a bright future when they have a 20% high youth unemployment rate and the fact that new graduates are flocking to work as Didi delivery drivers?

> In an appeal to authorities, Fang Xie, 51, wrote that the police have told her that she is “innocent” but that she cannot leave until her husband, a former bookseller who left China after his store was shut down for political reasons, gives himself up.

The government using family as leverage against those who left China is nothing new, that's why dissidents are afraid of them even when they live overseas. The question is why did the wife go back to China even though this is common practice?

I'm sure those Europeans are lamenting how they have to take Tehran off their vacation destinations list

Putin is going to be giving out Ladas like Oprah to these mothers