{
  "id": 1015333,
  "title": "Why Chinese youth are turning to an 84-year-old Cambridge professor for support",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/why-chinese-youth-are-turning-to-an-84-year-old-cambridge-professor-1015333",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-15T10:26:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3364001/why-chinese-youth-are-turning-84-year-old-cambridge-professor-support"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Wearing a black mariner’s cap and with a wall-to-wall bookshelf as a backdrop, Cambridge University professor Alan Macfarlane greets his social media audience with a soft ni hao – “Hello” in Chinese. In his latest video, Macfarlane follows this signature opening by thoughtfully answering a question pulled from the comments: why has making genuine friends become so difficult? Few would have…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
        "title": "Why Chinese youth are turning to an 84-year-old Cambridge professor for support",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/why-chinese-youth-are-turning-to-an-84-year-old-cambridge-professor",
        "published": "2026-08-15T10:26:35.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}