A billion Chinese trips upended - again
Lily Kuo, The Washington Post
Feb. 5, 2021
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Du Zini makes a traditional dish of smoked pork and luhao, based on her mother s recipe, in August 2020. This year is the first time she won t celebrate the Lunar New Year at home with her parents.Family photo.
TAIPEI, Taiwan - In the six years since Du Zini left home, she has never missed Lunar New Year. Du, who works at a forestry company in Nanning, more than 700 miles from her hometown in China s Jiangxi province, spends all year looking forward to those two weeks at home when she is doted on by her parents.
Biden returns prayer breakfast to lofty tone after disruption of Trump years
Annie Linskey, The Washington Post
Feb. 4, 2021
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WASHINGTON - At last year s National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump brandished newspapers headlined Trump acquitted and simply ACQUITTED to boast of his recent impeachment victory; aimed thinly veiled attacks at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah; and challenged the notion that Christians should strive to love their enemies.
At this year s online version of the event on Thursday, President Joe Biden took a far lower-key approach, citing the recent assault on the Capitol to criticize violence and urge bipartisanship. We know now we must confront and defeat political extremism, White supremacy and domestic terrorism, Biden said.
Republicans worry that big tent will mean big problems in 2022 elections
Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post
Feb. 4, 2021
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., leaves after speaking on the House floor on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021.Washington Post photo by Demetrius Freeman
WASHINGTON - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has pinned his hopes for reclaiming the majority in 2022 on never having to choose between the contradictory factions in his own party, no matter how deep the divisions appear.
He defended Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., after she voted to impeach President Donald Trump but also said he was unhappy with her after an outcry from Trump supporters. He said Trump bears responsibility for his slow response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, but then, in voting against impeachment, said the president did not provoke the violence.
As Europe s vaccination efforts falter, Russia and China are now seen as options
Loveday Morris, The Washington Post
Feb. 5, 2021
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BERLIN - As the European Union s vaccination program stumbles, Russia and China are poised to fill the gap - with Moscow opening talks to produce vaccines in the heart of Europe and both building political cache as they supply those scrambling for shots on the bloc s fringes.
Vaccines produced in Russia and China are already on the program in parts of the Balkans and Eastern Europe outside the E.U. Now, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have expressed their openness to using offerings from Moscow and Beijing if E.U. regulatory approval is granted.