[Tiananmen Part 1, Part 2] The situation was volatile, but violence would require a catalyst, and the CIA was ready and eager to provide it. Having overthrown Iran’s government in 1953, South Vietnam’s in 1963 and Chile’s in 1973, the Agency moved its team of coupsters to Beijing. As The Vancouver Sun reported, “For months before the June 3 attack […]
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Could America Win a New World War? — What It Would Take to Defeat Both China and Russia. Foreign Affairs, journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. A year ago in these pages I explained why China dominates the West Pacific. Since then, things have developed not necessarily to America’s advantage. Last year, for example, a US carrier docked
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There’s an ever-growing cohort of increasingly desperate Covid long-haulers, many affected for over two years, having difficult legal conversations about medical early retirement and independence payment support. They need answers, treatments – and to know that we take the situation sufficiently seriously to stop creating more cases. Where’s the herd immunity? Danny Altmann, Professor of Immunology, Imperial
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When the US banned China from participating in NASA projects, China built its own. When the US banned China from participating in the “international” space station, China built its own. When the US stopped China from participating in Europe’s GPS project, China built its own. When the US blocked Israel’s sale of AWACs to China,
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Hasheng Huang’s subtitle to The Ascent and Decline of the EAST is Examination, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology in Chinese History and Today. An excerpt reveals an extraordinary lacuna in the author’s knowledge of Chinese governance: For many years, I struggled to come up with a coherent explanation for the power, the reach, and the policy
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It was known long before COVID’S 3-Year outcome that lasting immunity to coronaviruses is problematic. But the vaccines failed to prevent either infection or transmission (despite the politico-biomedical establishment’s rationalizations), they proposed a new clinical endpoint: vaccination will prevent severe disease in many cases. Reasonably true, but not exactly what we expect of a vaccine. As we
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