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A Trip Worth Its Salt
With snow-capped peaks, blue skies and waters, Qinghai Lake and Chaka Salt Lake are a photographer’s dream - if you can avoid the scarf aunties
Code Compliant
I was ultimately directed to a desk manned by another harried member of the security services, who was attempting to deal with two elderly people who had apparently perplexed one of the world’s strictest disease control systems by not owning smartphones
The Ancient Art of Coffee
My family, fully addicted coffee drinkers, were coming to visit from Canada, so I asked Qingyun to help me buy the equipment I needed. Who knew a premim coffee grinder could cost hundreds of dollars? Same for a long-necked kettle imported from Japan. This was shaping up to be an expensive hobby
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Covid-19 vaccine should be priced as a public good, not a commodity
As the Covid-19 pandemic is a public health crisis, a Covid-19 vaccine should be considered a public good, which is nonexclusive and non-rivalrous. If the less well-off in society are cut off from access to the vaccine, it could trigger more outbreaks
