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Brian Spegele

@BrianSpegele

Reporting from Beijing and beyond for The Wall Street Journal.

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Back in September, I met Frank Zhao. His life captures so much of the essence of China – and the unease that many Chinese are harboring over its future. 'A Bowling Kingpin Lived the Chinese Dream. Now His Faith is Being Tested.' wsj.com/world/china/a-…

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New with Charles Hutzler: The U.S. is weighing lifting sanctions on a Chinese police institute suspected of human-rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang in a bid to jumpstart cooperation on fighting fentanyl.
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The U.S. is discussing lifting sanctions on a Chinese institute suspected of human-rights abuses in exchange for Beijing’s help in combating fentanyl, people familiar with the matter say - latest from ⁦Brian Spegele⁩ & ⁦Charles Hutzler⁩ wsj.com/articles/u-s-w…

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It's always great getting out in the field in China, this time to the barbecue-crazed tourist hotspot of Zibo. A visit to the city helps explain one of the biggest challenges for China's post-pandemic recovery.

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“He was drawn back to Russia as a journalistic duty,” The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Beckett (@paulwsj) speaks about Evan Gershkovich to The @WashingtonPost for World Press Freedom Day.

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Emptied my notebook. These protests are mostly about Covid controls, not toppling Xi.

But don't ignore protesters' deeper discontent -- they don't want to live in a hermit kingdom. 'We hope tomorrow’s China doesn’t become today’s North Korea,' one said. wsj.com/articles/china…

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Lingling Wei 魏玲灵 Stella Yifan Xie Cao Li Brian Spegele Yanzhong Huang Liyan Qi The story is all across the top of Monday's The Wall Street Journal front page: 'Protests Spread in Challenge To Xi's Regime: Anger at Covid-19 lockdowns spills over in Beijing, Shanghai and other Chinese cities'
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