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Feb 4

Claire—I finally finished, and Politico finally published, the article I’ve meant to write since forever about the geopolitical ramifications of Google Translate. It came out looking very spiffy:

Read it and tell me what you think. Katelyn Fossett at Politico did a terrific job of editing it. (Sadly, though, she told me I couldn’t keep the line about Orbán having “long since nestled himself in Putin’s crotch.” I thought excitedly that I was going to get away with that until very final round of editing. But alas, she finally brought the hammer down with a cool, “Rephrase.”)

ASIA

The question America is asking itself is why a big Chinese balloon is drifting over the state of Montana. Here’s a roundup:

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