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Oct 05 2020
Analysis
Why Leaders Lie About Their Health
If something resembling President Trump’s current health crisis were happening in another country, perhaps one with a shorter history of peaceful transfers of power, we might be wondering right now if a member of the president’s inner circle, or commanders of the military, were about to seize power. That’s not the case here, but the impulse to hide information about the president’s health in
SlateSep 21 2021
News
U.S. Stocks Open Higher After Global Market Selloff
U.S. stocks bounced higher Tuesday, chipping away at losses after fears about China’s property sector helped fuel a global selloff in stocks and commodities.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up more than 300 points, or 0.9%, in morning trading. The S&P 500 advanced 0.8% and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.9% following their worst one-day pullback since May.
Markets started
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 01 2021
Analysis
2020 and the surprising conclusions historians will make about America and this year
Historians will note that amid the death, destruction and dissension something else happened, too. The year 2020 is now commonly dubbed the annus horribilis — "the horrible year." The last 10 months certainly have been awful.
But then so was 1968, when both Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. The Tet Offensive escalated the Vietnam War and tore America apart.
Victor HansonAug 13 2020
Background
Officials Push U.S.-China Relations Toward Point of No Return
WASHINGTON — Step by step, blow by blow, the United States and China are dismantling decades of political, economic and social engagement, setting the stage for a new era of confrontation shaped by the views of the most hawkish voices on both sides.
With President Trump trailing badly in the polls as the election nears, his national security officials have intensified their attack on
New York Times (News)Jul 06 2022
News
Shanghai, Beijing order new round of mass COVID-19 testing
Residents of parts of Shanghai and Beijing have been ordered to undergo further rounds of COVID-19 testing following the discovery of new cases in the two cities, while tight restrictions remain in place in Hong Kong, Macao and other Chinese cities.
Shanghai has only just emerged from a strict lockdown that confined most of its 24 million residents to their homes for weeks and the new
Fox News DigitalNov 13 2020
News
Potential Biden Cabinet Pick a Frequent Guest on Chinese Propaganda Outlets
Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and potential progressive pick for a cabinet position under a Joe Biden administration, appeared on Chinese propaganda outlets throughout the 2020 campaign to blast U.S. foreign policy as an "unholy crusade against China."
Sachs, a Columbia University economist, contributed to scathing articles in the Global Times, China Daily, and other regime mouthpieces
Washington Free BeaconNov 27 2021
News
After detecting the Omicron variant, South Africa feels ‘punished’ by global travel bans
As the United States and European countries close their borders over fears over the recently detected coronavirus variant, many South Africans say they feel as if they are being “punished” for alerting global health authorities.
Hours after South African scientists announced the existence of a new variant that they said displayed “a big jump in evolution,” Britain banned travelers from
New York Times (News)Nov 16 2021
News
Biden exits three-hour Xi summit with no White House mention of China’s growing nuke arsenal
President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met via video teleconference for more than three hours on Monday night, discussing a wide slate of issues at a moment of growing international concern over Cold War prospects between the U.S. and the world’s biggest communist power.
While China‘s military muscle-flexing and advancements — including its rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal and a
Washington TimesSep 23 2020
News
Facebook Removes Chinese Accounts Posting About Foreign Policy, 2020 Election
Facebook says it has taken down a network of China-based fake accounts whose posts included content about the U.S. presidential election.
Most of the activity by the more than 180 fake accounts, groups and pages was focused on Southeast Asia, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy, said in a blog post Tuesday.
The network posted in Chinese, Filipino and English
NPR (Online News)Dec 31 2020
News
China Looks To Cartoons, Social Media To Form A Patriotic Generation
China has a long history of focusing on the political education of new generations. Under the guidance of President Xi Jinping, however, the Chinese Communist Party has turned to social media and cartoons to instill sympathetic attitudes in the nation’s children.
Pro-China propaganda has become the norm in recent years. A multi-pronged effort to spread nationalistic sentiment across the
International Business Times