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South China Morning Post (HK) · the top story · first seen · 06:02 Sun in Hong Kong

How a museum masterpiece’s life-size replica sparked rare US-China collaboration

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South China Morning Post (HK) (scmp)
Position
The top story
First seen
2026-10-10 22:02 UTC · 06:02 Sun in Hong Kong
Last seen
2026-10-11 01:12 UTC · 09:12 in Hong Kong · 19 polls · on the page for 3 h 9 min · as of now, not part of the record
Story URL
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3370434/how-museum-masterpieces-life-size-replica-sparked-rare-us-china-collaboration?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
SHA-256
81d20b56c78d1038d83307becd5b750cc287dc6bff136ea5a13d2561ad8082ea

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81d20b56c78d1038d83307becd5b750cc287dc6bff136ea5a13d2561ad8082ea

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-81d20b56c78d.json prints 81d20b56c78d1038d83307becd5b750cc287dc6bff136ea5a13d2561ad8082ea. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
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  4. If someone shows you this front page as it was, hash it: sha256sum prints 6df3cb3fc34392f05eebccc4bdc5474e078f24fbc42c03faf74c667037be5981 for the page this site kept 2026-10-10 22:02 UTC. The hash is a line of manifest #1235, and the manifest's receipt proves the manifest existed by Bitcoin block 970834: with both saved, ots verify manifest-1235.txt.ots.