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The Silicon Valley killing that exposed the new fault lines in Chinese society

Murder House • EQUATOR Skip to content “Crimes are universally understood to be news to the extent that they offer, however erroneously, a story.” – Joan Didion, Sentimental Journeys When the police arrived at 714 Valley Way in Santa Clara, late in the morning of 16 January 2024, they found Chen Liren on his knees in the bedroom, his hands raised, staring into space. A few steps away, his wife Yu Xuanyi’s body lay with her head battered in. The floor, the wall and the back of the bedroom door were spattered with blood. Chen’s right hand had swelled up and turned purple, and his clothes and lim

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