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The US delists China as a currency manipulator. China commits to spend $200 billion on US agricultural products. 1/20

Evan Osnos interviews a range of key figures to predict the future of the United States’ contest with China. 2/20

Demand in China for ginseng is so great, illicit trading blooms in Appalachia. 3/20

MUJI introduces a prefab home for sale (only in Japan), complete with firepit. 4/20

Democrats hold their final debate before Iowa—a state that remains up for grabs. 5/20

Across 32 countries, 64% of people say they do not have confidence in Trump to do the right thing in world affairs. 6/20

The president's most devout defenders want the Senate to adopt the Federal Rules of Evidence. Doing so may actually condemn him. 7/20

The White House and Los Angeles feud in public, but appear to be working together privately on homelessness. 8/20

“Because you are foreigners, they hate you.” Farnoush Amiri writes about the day her home was raided by federal agents. 9/20

A giant kettle of vultures is disrupting Customs and Border Protection communications on the US-Mexico border. 10/20

A poem to start your week: “Duplex (I Begin With Love)” by Jericho Brown, from The American Poetry Review. 11/20

Twenty headlines demonstrate the double standard between press coverage of Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton. 12/20

"Any woman, including Greta Gerwig." Snubs in this year's Academy Award nominations. 13/20

Lana Del Rey’s debut was the only record from the 2010s to chart in the US’s biggest-selling vinyl LPs of the decade. 14/20

The evacuation and return of Japanese citizens who lived near Fukushima, as captured by British photographer Giles Price. 15/20

The oldest drawing of Venice yet discovered is from a 14th-century travelogue. 16/20

Travel destinations for those who find the New York Times’s “52 places” list too dull (or driven by PR firms). 17/20

Nell Zink reflects on Dostoyevsky and trash-talks Ben Lerner while hunting for Robert Walser, or something like that. 18/20

Always a treat: Playwright Alan Bennett’s diary of what he did last year. 19/20

The oldest solid material on Earth has been found in a meteorite: stardust that formed between five to seven billion years ago. 20/20

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