With the world obsessed with public health and the reputation of the United States shattered by its worst global response to Covid-19, Beijing sees an opportunity. It is spitting out the rhetoric of the United States, planting its flag everywhere in the South China Sea, causing Hong Kong to stand up and accumulating diplomatic pressure on Australia.
Meanwhile, the president needs a scapegoat for his poor handling of the pandemic, and China is the perfect villain for the United States’ election year. This week alone, the United States completely rejected Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea and stripped Hong Kong of trade privileges. Friends of the United States, such as Britain, which has just dumped China’s Huawei from its new 5G network, are forced to choose which side they want to be on.
Trump is not concerned about sinking the world’s most important bilateral relationship in years of tension – he does what is good for him at any time. But things may not improve if Joe Biden is sworn in next January; Whoever the commander in chief is, the United States needs a new policy from China if it hopes to preserve its power in the Pacific and avoid a confrontation with the new superpower much sooner than expected.
The world may find itself in a new geopolitical age when it finally emerges from the pandemic.
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Goya-n crazy?
No, it is not the Domestic Shopping Network, it is the White House.
The Trumps have turned their savage life on a reality show into a television viewing bonanza since the President descended that golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015. Now they are dealing with the commercials.
The President and his daughter are mobilizing their social media accounts to support Goya, a large food manufacturer in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company has faced a consumer boycott since CEO Robert Unanue praised Trump during a visit to the White House last week.
The president, who will never be overshadowed, was better, popping up with a variety of Goya products on the desk, as if ready to make a special gift offer to any buyer of coconut milk, beans, condiments, and cookies. The chief seller did not blink when asking Ukraine to interfere in the elections, so it is not surprising that he has ignored rules designed to prevent the Oval Office from becoming a market stall.
Those conservatives who used to complain when President Barack Obama was not wearing a jacket and tie in the Oval Office have undoubtedly already expressed outrage to the White House.
‘Many northerners decided to go south’
What actually caused the increase in coronavirus cases in the southern United States?
“Many northerners decided to go on vacation to the south. Southern groups have never taken mitigation measures so seriously, because they really didn’t have an outbreak,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Atlanta-based Disease Centers. . Control and Prevention said Tuesday.
“Northerners are not the cause of major outbreaks in the South,” the Harvard Global Health Institute responded Wednesday. “What states that are seeing large outbreaks have in common is that they relaxed COVID-19 regulations around the same time in May, prompting the increase in cases seen in early June.” The Cambridge, Massachusetts institute pointed to Virginia as an example, noting that the state remained in phase 1 of its reopening until the end of May and contained the spread of the coronavirus “significantly better than its neighbors.”
Correction: This story has been corrected to reflect that Fauci was speaking to The Atlantic magazine.
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