Pyongyang-Tokyo talks a two-edged sword
February 22, 2024
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America on autopilot to self-inflicted destruction
At a recent hearing in the US Senate, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas apparently had trouble understanding that a citizen of Singapore can look like a Chinese, talk like a Chinese and yet not be a member of the Communist Party of China. In Cotton’s questioning of Chew Shou Zi, the chief executive of TikTok, even the fact that Chew’s wife and children are American citizens seemed suspicious to him.
Fashionable but wrongheaded shots at globalization
So we now know that it is both fashionable and acceptable to criticize globalization, for even Mario Draghi is doing it.
China building up tech for 'censorship apparatus,' U.S. report says
WASHINGTON -- China is trying to control global opinion on Taiwan, Hong Kong and other issues through its extensive censorship apparatus and is advancing technologies for this purpose, according to a new report released by a U.S. congressional advisory panel.
Oligarchs ‘fear Putin more than losing their billions’
Russian oligarchs are more fearful of retribution by Russian President Vladimir Putin than they are of losing their billions, Russian opposition leader and formerly imprisoned oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky said in an interview.