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Watch Out China Daily! The 'Pocket Airport' Threat

By James Fallows

I've mentioned before two threats to the China Daily's position as my favorite newspaper. (From Global Times, and of course an ongoing challenge from the Onion.) Now here's another: Gizmag. As long as it keeps running stories like this one (screenshot below):

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What's great, according to the story, is that the "small neighborhood airport" movement would be environmentally friendly (read for details) and more efficient all around. I'm sold! Background here and here.  OK, China Daily, let's see you match this.

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James Fallows is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and author of the newsletter Breaking the News.