The award, granted annually by the International Association of Crime Writers North American Branch, is given to a book by a Canadian or American writer that best exemplifies literary excellence in crime writing.
U.S. policy toward Cuba should promote a stable democraticneighborhood, long-term development of market-based economicprosperity, and a lasting friendship with the Cuban people notwith the old bully who, for the moment, holds them prisoner.
An Old Friendship and a Communist Crackdown
Beijing’s dictatorship takes aim at political dissent and economic liberty.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2011. Photo: NG HAN GUAN/AFP/Getty Images By Dec. 11, 2020 5:28 pm ET
As vice president during the Obama Administration, Joe Biden worked to build a diplomatic relationship with Chinese tyrant Xi Jinping while Mr. Biden’s son Hunter worked to build business relationships in the country. Things seem to have worked out well for all three. But relations between Mr. Xi and the people he rules continue to deteriorate.
In 2012 Noaki Schwartz and Christina Hoag of the Associated Press reported on the man who was ascending to the top of the Chinese dictatorship and his U.S. interlocutor: