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Benjamin Carlson

Senior CorrespondentGlobalPost
Benjamin Carlson is GlobalPost’s senior correspondent covering China. Previously, he was executive editor of the Atlantic Wire in Washington. He has written on arts, culture, business, economics, and politics for The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and more.
Business, Finance & Economics
China economy: Wild West when it comes to securing trademarks
Business, Finance & Economics
China at a crossroads: the upshot from the Party Congress
Agence France-Presse
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption crime fighters
Politics
In China’s assault on microblogging, business wins
Agence France-Presse
In China, hot money crosses borders
Business, Economics and Jobs
Will Wukan have a ripple effect?
Politics
China’s blind activist: watershed for human rights?
Politics
China-Philippines standoff: Will the US military get involved?
Politics
Standoff in South China Sea (Q&A with Asia Society’s Andrew Billo)
Lifestyle
Is China turning against foreigners to cement control?
Lifestyle
Yang Rui and Chinese TV’s ‘foreign bitch’ problem
Business, Economics and Jobs
Ferrari’s success in China: a double edged sword?
Economics
Chinese economy: Can a stimulus lead to happiness?
Agence France-Presse
Confucius Institute: education bonus or wily Trojan Horse?
Lifestyle
Record crowd marks Tiananmen crackdown in Hong Kong
Business, Economics and Jobs
Google’s latest anti-censorship play in China a net loss?
Politics
China gives Norway the cold shoulder
Economics
China: Investments that stimulated fast economic growth may be problematic later
Lifestyle
Is it time for China to abandon the one-child policy?
Politics
Occupy movement deflating in Hong Kong
Economics
In China, college education comes at a price
Lifestyle
How China’s “sea turtles” will crush the US economy
Economics
In China, small business no longer booming
Politics
Chinese media crackdown
Lifestyle
US agricultural exports to China become costly in times of drought
Economics
The many faces of the Chinese labor force
Business, Economics and Jobs
Baidu, China’s ‘Google-killer,’ looks to build its brand worldwide
Agence France-Presse
For China, questions about whether the Olympics have been fair and square
Lifestyle
Beijing schools Hong Kong in Communism
Politics
Romney-Ryan China cheat sheet
Politics
Gu Kailai, wife of fallen party boss Bo Xilai, given suspended death sentence for Neil Heywood murder
Conflict
What Japan and China stand to gain, and lose, in Senkaku
Business, Economics and Jobs
What shoddily made bridges say about China
Lifestyle
Hong Kong hunger strikers take on ‘brainwashing’ in schools
Lifestyle
Who belongs to the Chinese middle class?
Economics
Why China’s middle class is nervous
Politics
US Election: What if Hong Kong could vote?
Business, Economics and Jobs
China’s Great Wall of Inequality: how a booming economy is creating a deeply divided society
Business, Economics and Jobs
What Romney’s tax returns say about his investments in Chinese companies
Politics
Bo Xilai: China’s Communists attempt to exorcise a comrade
Conflict
Ferry crash response revives distrust between Hong Kong and mainland China
Business, Economics and Jobs
Chinese magazine asks: ‘What does middle class mean’?
Business, Economics and Jobs
Why is US Congress afraid of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei?
Politics
US election: Kernels of truth in “China bashing”
Economics
America the Gutted: The island of migrant steel
Agence France-Presse
China scrambles to censor novelist Mo Yan’s Nobel Prize
Politics
Obama and Romney: Why all the China-bashing?
Economics
The disturbing truth about China’s economy
Economics
Chinese protesters force abandonment of chemical plant
Economics
How Wen Jiabao undermined the Party’s legitimacy
Politics
Obama, meet your new rivals
Politics
Chinese, awaiting new leadership, envy US democracy
Politics
China’s Party hangs on to status quo
Business, Economics and Jobs
She stole the show at the Party Congress
Lifestyle
Asia: Hopes rise in fight against HIV/AIDS
Lifestyle
China: If The Onion isn’t funny, what is?
Politics
Chen Kegui: So much for progress in China
Lifestyle
Beijing protests: Chinese in uproar over environmentally harmful construction
Lifestyle
Chinese New Year cake
Lifestyle
Xi Jinping: the casual Communist