Attorney General William Barr warned Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party has launched an “economic blitzkrieg” to topple the United States from its position as the world superpower, presenting the threat as the most important issue of this century and calling on the free world than uniting in a “whole …
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Chinese authorities arrested a law professor who published essays strongly criticizing President Xi Jinping for the coronavirus pandemic and accusing him of ruling “tyrannical,” according to his friends and colleagues. Xu Zhangrun, a rare outspoken critic of the government at China’s heavily censored academy, was removed from his home in …
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Twenty Indian soldiers are murdered in a surprise cross-border attack by the People’s Liberation Army. A Philippine fishing boat is sunken in their own territorial waters by increasingly predatory Chinese ships. Peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong are beaten by riot police on Beijing’s orders. Australia’s farmers and miners are …
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Few facial masks were visible in Red Square when Vladimir Putin welcomed foreign leaders and war veterans, now in their 90s, at the country’s Victory Day military parade, in which the number of coronavirus cases in Russia exceeded 600,000. Thousands of Muscovites ignored calls to stay home and crowded on …
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Chinese authorities warned of retaliation on Tuesday in response to the Trump administration’s decision to designate four more media outlets as agents of the Chinese government. A spokesman for the country’s foreign ministry accused the United States of suppressing Chinese media companies and of bringing a “Cold War mentality” to …
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