#Pompeo slams Biden over ‘America is back’ foreign policy

#Pompeo slams Biden over ‘America is back’ foreign policy

“#Pompeo slams Biden over ‘America is back’ foreign policy” Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo railed against President Biden’s newly announced “America is back” approach to diplomacy — saying the US can’t afford “eight more years of Barack Obama’s foreign policy.” Pompeo was asked to weigh in on Biden’s foreign policy changes on Fox News….

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#Biden pauses, reviews several Trump-era foreign policies

#Biden pauses, reviews several Trump-era foreign policies

“#Biden pauses, reviews several Trump-era foreign policies” The Biden administration on Wednesday paused US arms sales to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia — one of several moves to address Trump-era foreign policies. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who was confirmed as the nation’s top diplomat on Tuesday, outlined to reporters some of the…

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#China’s Xi warns against ‘New Cold War’ in keynote address

#China’s Xi warns against ‘New Cold War’ in keynote address

“#China’s Xi warns against ‘New Cold War’ in keynote address” ​Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned ​in​ his virtual keynote address to world leaders at Davos on Monday against beginning a “new Cold War” in remarks that appeared​ to be a shot aimed at President Biden, who has spoken of strengthening global alliances​ to counter Beijing’s growing influence.​…

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#How media monetized polarization and other commentary

#How media monetized polarization and other commentary

“#How media monetized polarization and other commentary” Media beat: How Media Monetized Polarization How did our public square become so intensely polarized? By sucking up advertising dollars, the Internet devastated traditional newspapers that treated opinion “like a volatile substance” to be “fenced off from ‘factual’ reporting,” Martin Gurri argues at City Journal. That prompted a…

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#Twitter locks Chinese embassy’s account over Uighur post

#Twitter locks Chinese embassy’s account over Uighur post

“#Twitter locks Chinese embassy’s account over Uighur post” Twitter froze the account of China’s US embassy after it posted a tweet about Uighur Muslims that violated the platform’s policy against “dehumanization.” In the Jan. 7 tweet, the embassy claimed that Uighur women in China’s Xinjiang region had been “emancipated” and were “no longer baby-making machines.”…

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#It’s Joe Biden’s world now. Can he fix it?

#It’s Joe Biden’s world now. Can he fix it?

“#It’s Joe Biden’s world now. Can he fix it?” Now that the lurid madhouse of Donald Trump’s presidency has come to its downfall in convulsions of mass violence and insurrection, the painstaking work of restoring America’s shattered confidence in itself isn’t even the steepest uphill climb facing Trump’s creaky 78-year-old successor from Scranton, Penn., the…

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#Trump’s parting shot to Xi should be recognizing Taiwan

#Trump’s parting shot to Xi should be recognizing Taiwan

“#Trump’s parting shot to Xi should be recognizing Taiwan” President Trump’s two greatest foreign-policy accomplishments both involve departures from outmoded paradigms that had, for decades, enraptured bipartisan neoliberal elites: unprecedented Arab-Israeli rapprochement in the Middle East and an assertive China containment strategy in the Asia-Pacific. On the former front, Trump boldly departed from the misbegotten…

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#Can Joe Biden stand up the Chinese Communist Party?

#Can Joe Biden stand up the Chinese Communist Party?

“#Can Joe Biden stand up the Chinese Communist Party?” Running for president has already cost Joe Biden at least one friend. Back in the Obama era, Biden spent dozens of hours with China’s president, Xi Jinping. On one occasion, they ate noodles at a Beijing restaurant with Biden’s granddaughter, and Xi once called Biden an…

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