Biden’s Taiwan policy unlikely to be one of ‘strategic clarity’
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Grading Biden’s Foreign Policy Team: Tony Blinken
Right calls Biden a puppet of Xi as he packs his cabinet with China hawks
Right calls Biden a puppet of Xi as he packs his cabinet with China hawks
‘Joe Biden is China’s puppet’ is a well-worn trope weaponized by the American right wing. In the real world, Biden is staffing his cabinet with rabid China war hawks – but since when do echo chambers care about the real world?
Prior to the US election I wrote a couple of articles saying that, if Biden wins, he will be attacked by the right as a Xi Jinping puppet even as he escalates dangerous cold war aggressions with China, in exactly the same way Trump was attacked by Democrats as a Putin puppet even as he escalated dangerous cold war aggressions with Russia. This extremely obvious prediction is, of course, already coming true.
Joshua Wong’s downfall is a victory for peace, stability and rule of law
Joshua Wong’s downfall is a victory for peace, stability and rule of law
On November 23, Joshua Wong Chi-fung, an instigator of the Hong Kong riots, pleaded guilty to charges of illegal assembly for participating in protests which swept the city the previous year. Wong is to be remanded in custody until sentencing next week and faces up to five years in prison.
What If They Called an Election and Nothing Changed in the War State?
What If They Called an Election and Nothing Changed in the War State?
This election season, neither Democrats nor Republicans challenged the cultural components justifying the great game, which is evidence of one thing: empires come home, folks, even if the troops never seem to.
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How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich
How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich
Tasked by Obama to end the Iraq War, Biden supported Nouri El-Maliki, the leader he knew, and rescued the Iraqi prime minister’s career even though it ended up fracturing the country. When Maliki narrowly lost in 2010, Biden didn’t give Iraqi political parties time to broker a new coalition. With Biden’s endorsement, Maliki gained a second term; he grew more authoritarian, which is now widely believed to have led to the rise of ISIS. Biden ignored experts who were skeptical of Maliki and preferred to glad-hand. “He came to deal with Iraqi politicians like local political kingpins in Delaware or Pennsylvania,” said Robert Ford, who was deputy ambassador in Baghdad from 2008 to 2010.
The Biden-Harris Transition released a list of individuals who are briefing President-elect Joe Biden on national security matters.
Foreign investors pile back into booming China
Foreign investors pile back into booming China
That shift could support China’s longer-term plans to expand domestic consumption and gradually liberalise foreign involvement in its industries even after it has cracked down on some of its biggest conglomerates and the outward capital flows they fuelled over the past decade.
Official data shows that foreign direct investment in China rose in October for the seventh straight month, jumping 18 per cent year on year to Rmb81.9bn ($11.8bn).
The danger of a Trump coup is rapidly escalating
The danger of a Trump coup is rapidly escalating
It’s becoming increasingly apparent though, that very serious people are directing the strategy off-screen. Steve Bannon, the confirmed white supremacist and architect of Trump’s nationalistic and xenophobic “America First” policies, appears to be the one laying out the president’s battle plan. And behind Bannon has long stood the big money of those capitalist interests who’ve never had much concern for democracy, especially if it gets in the way of profits.
Within hours of the election ending, on Nov. 5 Bannon declared the outlines of the approach we now see coming to fruition: “Fortune favors boldness… Kick it to the state legislatures, kick it to the House of Representatives…. We win there.”
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‘No evidence’ that asymptomatic Covid-19 cases were infectious: analysis of post-lockdown Wuhan
A paper that analyzed the results of a massive post-lockdown Covid-19 testing drive that included nearly every eligible resident of Wuhan, China has found no evidence that positive cases without symptoms spread the disease.
‘No evidence’ that asymptomatic Covid-19 cases were infectious: analysis of post-lockdown Wuhan
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