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by BeetleB 1405 days ago
> There's really no obvious way that this affects Americans, so why bother talking about it?

Looking at cnn.com right now, I see stuff like:

> Finnish PM says videos of her 'boisterous' partying shouldn't have been made public

> Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s 2016 plane incident: FBI report reveals new details

I know nothing about the Chinese real estate market, but somehow I feel confident that it will affect more Americans than these two stories combined will.

> Plus, the crisis in China has been going on for so long at this point that it's turned into olds.

So has the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, yet it still makes big news.