Erosion of democracy is a very real problem in many parts of the world: CIA chief
WASHINGTON, Apr 15: The erosion of democracy is a very real problem in many parts of the world, CIA Director William Burns has told US lawmakers, explaining that this trend could be reversed if the people’s faith in this form of governance is restored.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director addressed members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the worldwide threat assessment of the US on Wednesday.
“I think the problem of erosion of democracies, as Freedom House points out, is a very real one in many parts of the world, those that have established democracies and those where democratic governance is quite fragile,” Burns said, responding to question from Senator Michael Bennet.
Book Review: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century
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Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century | Josh Rogin | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | March 2021.
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ccording to reports, President Joe Biden may convene the first-ever quadrilateral U.S. summit with leaders from Australia, India, and Japan as part of the administration’s push to counter China. The summit would revive the quadrilateral relationship known in policy circles as “the Quad” that emerged after the 2007 Indonesia tsunami. It had lain dormant out of fears from Delhi and Canberra about antagonizing Beijing. However, with India and China fighting across the border at Ladakh, and Australia’s growing concern about China’s expansionist foreign policy, both countries are reconsidering the value of such a partnership with Washington and Tokyo.
Political Correctness Has Captured Big Business: ‘The Dictatorship of Woke Capital’ Author
While American big business had traditionally served as a free-market-loving shield against the long, leftist march for control of the institutions of Western civilization, that’s changing as businesses are on track to becoming a more powerful economic version of the “woke” college campus, author Stephen Soukup told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” program.
Soukup, author of the book “The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business,” said that what today manifests in moves such as Facebook and Twitter banning former President Donald Trump from their platforms or Disney ousting actress Gina Carano, star of the show The Mandalorian, is part of a century-long process that kicked into high gear several decades ago.
17 Dec 2020
Indian-origin lobbyists are rallying India’s many visa workers to pressure Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) to remove his China-related amendment from Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 green card giveaway bill.
“Please act IMMEDIATELY and with utmost URGENCY. We need this email to go out in LARGE numbers & for there to be a LOT of calls,” said a Facebook message from Immigration Voice, a group which has organized a very aggressive series of street protests against GOP and Democratic legislators.
The message also included a veiled threat to restart the harassment of U.S. politicians who do not pressure Scott: