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www.newyorker.com — The New Yorker's Evan Osnos dissects the controversial Hoekstra Superbowl ad and is left wondering how someone could get so much wrong in such a short TV spot.

www.economist.com — AMERICA'S GDP is still roughly twice as big as China’s (using market exchange rates). To predict when the gap might be closed, The Economist has updated its interactive chart below with the latest GDP numbers. This allows you to plug in your own assumptions about real GDP growth in China and America, inflation rates and the yuan’s exchange rate against the dollar.

www.nytimes.com — Colleges, eager to bolster their diversity and expand their international appeal, have rushed to recruit in China, where fierce competition for seats at Chinese universities and an aggressive admissions-agent industry feed a frenzy to land spots on American campuses.

www.change.org — Families like Annie and Alex Conrad are separated by arbitrary and unfair actions on the part of US Immigration. Annie moved to the US from China last spring, and had her green card application in process. Everything was going along fine, when an emergency necessitated her return to China to bring her daughter Ella from a previous marriage to the US earlier than planned.

www.nytimes.com — Last week Japan’s minister of finance declared that he and his colleagues wanted a discussion with China about the latter’s purchases of Japanese bonds, to “examine its intention” — diplomat-speak for “Stop it right now.” Senior American policy figures have repeatedly balked at doing anything about Chinese currency manipulation, in part out of fear that the Chinese would stop buying our bonds.