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The cost of China’s harsh COVID policies
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Apr 18, 2022
The stories from Shanghai, a city of 25 million entering its fourth week of COVID-19 lockdown, have been harrowing. Millions have been confined to the...
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Stop China from aiding Russia by helping Ukraine
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Mar 16, 2022
The Biden administration hoped it could focus on China and not worry about Russia. But the war in Ukraine has proved this was a fantasy as China consi...
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Waging peace, saving lives in Ukraine
Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 12, 2022
The great mid-20th-century American statesman Dean Acheson titled his memoir “Present at the Creation,” the story of his role developing the instituti...
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China faces stark choice
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 02, 2022
Delegate after delegate came up to the rostrum Monday at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly and condemned Russia’s invasion of U...
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A civilizational challenge
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 26, 2022
A clash of civilizations is upon us. Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine doesn’t just herald a new era in European security, it underlines a growing ...
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The authoritarian world Xi and Vlad hope to create
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Jan 24, 2022
I intended this column to focus on Elizabeth Economy’s important new book, “The World According to China,” which describes Xi Jinping’s vision for Chi...
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Doing business in China
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 07, 2022
Tesla is heralded for its innovative push toward electrifying cars — it’s the future the country and the world need. But it’s also true that Tesla’s r...
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China can’t erase its crimes
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 29, 2021
Tyrants like Xi Jinping of China strive to control people’s actions and thoughts and by trying to control the truth, which is why Hong Kong monuments ...
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China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin
Opinion, Сolumns
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Dec 13, 2021
In his quest to make his country the undisputed leader of the global economy, China’s President Xi Jinping can learn a lot from his next-door neighbor...
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Pushing back against China’s control of athletes
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Dec 11, 2021
In 1936, human rights advocates pushed for a boycott of the “Nazi Olympics,” two years after Adolf Hitler seized power and began persecuting Jews. Som...
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The IOC is a craven handmaid of Beijing
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 08, 2021
It should be a rule of thumb that the Olympic Games shouldn’t be held in countries that operate concentration camps. If this strikes you as an unreaso...
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Explainer: Why quitting coal is so hard
Opinion, Сolumns
KARL RITTER Associated Press 
Nov 15, 2021
GLASGOW, Scotland — In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal ...
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Catching up with China and the developed world
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Nov 13, 2021
The Infrastructure bill may help the United States close the huge gap with Beijing and its democratic allies on transportation, internet coverage, and...
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The villains of COVID
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Nov 05, 2021
Just before global leaders gathered in Rome for the G-20, to blather about confronting COVID-19 globally, a damning report was issued by a Brazilian s...
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The new missile gap
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 20, 2021
The Biden administration is hesitant to call our competition with China a new Cold War, even though Beijing has zero qualms about making the parallels...
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