Month: May 2020

Opinion | Trump Is Playing the China Card. Who Believes Him? – By Susan E. Rice – The New York Times

May 20, 2020 / China, Foreign Affairs and U.S.ForeignPolicy

He attacks Joe Biden to deflect blame for his terrible handling of Covid-19 and record of appeasing Beijing. By Susan E. Rice Contributing Opinion Writer May 19, 2020 427 In President Trump’s notes used at the March 19 White House news briefing, “Corona” was replaced with “Chinese” in a reference to the coronavirus.Credit…Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post, …

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Mieko Kawakami Cracks the Code of Being a Woman in Japan – By Motoko Rich – The New York Times

May 11, 2020 / Japan, Women's Issues

By Motoko Rich May 9, 2020 6 TOKYO — To explain the pressure felt by women in Japanese society, the novelist Mieko Kawakami recalls a playground prank from elementary school. The boys would run around and flip up the skirts of certain girls to catch a glimpse of their underwear. That was mortifying enough. Yet it …

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