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Translating troublemakers

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Published: April 20th, 2022,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

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When Tiziano Terzani, the former China correspondent for German news magazine Der Spiegel who died in 2004, once addressed a Chinese cadre in Mandarin, the cadre allegedly turned to his subordinates and asked, „Which traitor taught him our language?“

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