Remembering a Massacre That China Keeps Trying to Erase June 7, 2023 By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “In all my decades of reporting, one of my most searing experiences came in 1989 in Beijing when I watched the Chinese People’s Liberation Army unleash weapons of war on throngs of unarmed pro-democracy protesters. So I was …
Aid groups in the war-torn country say they are having trouble gaining access to areas affected by the storm without approval from the junta. By Richard C. Paddock May 18, 2023Updated 8:51 a.m. ET “Four days after Cyclone Mocha made landfall in Myanmar, killing hundreds and devastating communities in its path, aid groups seeking to deliver humanitarian …
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It’s a long-buried part of South Korean history: women compelled by force, trickery or desperation into prostitution, with the complicity of their own leaders. By Choe Sang-Hun Photographs by Jean Chung Choe Sang-Hun examined unsealed government documents and interviewed six women who worked in camp towns around American military bases in South Korea for this article. May …
How China Lost the Covid War Nov. 28, 2022 By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist “Do you remember when Covid was going to establish China as the world’s dominant power? As late as mid-2021, my inbox was full of assertions that China’s apparent success in containing the coronavirus showed the superiority of the Chinese system over Western …
How China Lost America Nov. 1, 2022 By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “When future historians look back on 2022, they will have a lot to choose from when they ask the question: What was the most important thing that happened that year? Was it Brexit, Chexit, Ruxit or Trumpit? Was it the meltdown of …
From her first days in Congress, the future speaker was willing to confront China’s leaders. As she looked toward her legacy, the California Democrat was not about to back down this time.+ Aug. 2, 2022 By Carl Hulse Aug. 2, 2022 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “WASHINGTON — In 1991, a trio of junior House members on a bipartisan trip …
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July 28, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET 612 comments By Bonnie S. Glaser and Zack Cooper Ms. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Mr. Cooper is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “The United States and China are on a collision course in the Taiwan Strait. China’s ambitions …
June 23, 2022 By Thinzar Shunlei Yi Ms. Thinzar is a Myanmar pro-democracy activist. “Myanmar’s modern history has been marked by colonial exploitation, military repression, violence and democracy denied. Grass-roots activists like me and thousands before me have dedicated our lives and sacrificed our safety to change this. But over the past year, an even deeper …
For decades, armed conflict, political repression and targeted campaigns against minorities have forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave the country. Now many more are expected to follow. By Sui-Lee Wee Oct. 19, 2021Updated 10:31 a.m. ET Terrified farmers and families with children in Myanmar are fleeing into India as the military junta that seized power …
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By Pankaj Mishra Mr. Mishra is the author, most recently, of “Age of Anger: A History of the Present.” Feb. 21, 2020 Credit…Illustration by Pablo Delcan; Photographs by Doug Mills/The New York Times ” “I love Hindu,” Donald Trump proclaimed during his presidential campaign in 2016. That adoration of India’s majority population, and America’s richest and …
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