Tag: China
Florida’s Restrictions on Property Purchases by Chinese Citizens Hark Back to a Dark History of Xenophobia
“DeSantis wants us to believe that preventing a dietician, a property manager, or a professor from buying property in Florida, based purely on their national origin and non-immigrant status, somehow strikes a blow against “the Chinese Communist Party” and “crack[s] down on Communist China.” But it is hard to see why innocent people should suffer for the crimes of an oppressive regime they left behind.”
COVID-19’s ‘Patients Zero’ May Have Been Wuhan Lab Scientists, Report Finds
“The report—authored by independent journalists Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Alex Gutentag, and published on Substack—names Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu as “three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2” in fall 2019. Not only did these three scientists work at the WIV, but they worked specifically on gain-of-function research; Hu in particular was considered a “star pupil” of Shi Zhengli, dubbed the “bat woman” for her work studying coronaviruses in bats.”
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“The report’s authors spoke with multiple sources inside the U.S. government who provided the information. These sources, whose names were withheld to protect their anonymity, said there is little doubt that the laboratory is where the pandemic started.”
China’s Local Government Debt Crisis Explained
Why was the Qing Dynasty so weak? History of China 1644-1839 Documentary 1/10
Will China Attack Taiwan? An interview with Oriana Mastro
After the Fall: The United States and China After the Soviet Union | The Grand Strategy Summit
A Big Issue in Paraguay’s Elections Was…Taiwan?
The Sino-Indian War: Why India Turned On China In The 1960s | Mao’s Cold War | Timeline
Pentagon chiefs: Debt default is bad for troops, good for China
““China right now describes us in their open speeches, etc., as a declining power,” Milley said. “Defaulting on the debt would only reinforce that thought and embolden China and increase risk to the United States.”
Austin added that a default would mean a “substantial risk to our reputation” that China could exploit.”