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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by justinclift on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:30PM (#24096581)
???

Let's start with the very first paragraph from the original:

  President Trump said last month that talks for a phase 2
  trade agreement with China were on the back burner. If
  they ...
Let's look at the very first paragraph from the "Outline" version:

  I would bring experience, design, engineering and related
  technologies developed over my 40-year career in the
  automotive industry building race cars and ...
Those are clearly different, which means the Outline one is missing content and not fit for purpose.

I didn't bother checking for further differences. There may or may not be any, none of which really matters given the Outline one is incomplete.

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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by croutonwagon on Sunday August 09, 2020 @12:11PM (#24100571)
Outline tends to attempt to cut out the first portion summary text.

It could be a formatting issue with bitly. Tinyurl may work better in some instances.

Ultimately it does the job tasked, to get you the text locked inside the paywall.

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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by justinclift on Sunday August 09, 2020 @10:08PM (#24104787)
Clearly it's not capturing the entire article text. :(

Personally, I consider that to be a fundamental flaw. eg "Not fit for purpose.

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