The namesake of the Brookings Institution's China Center chairs a company that facilitates investments in China's global infrastructure initiative and has served on the board of an alleged Chinese propaganda agency, facts that were not disclosed in Brookings literature on those topics.
The University of Exeter has apologised after a leaked email appeared to show a senior staff member equating student email protests with “cyber terrorism”.
Today, a student email protest has been organised by group Students for Academic Mitigation. In an email allegedly sent by Jamie Horsley, the university’s Head of Education Services, she said “I would equate such actions to cyber terrorism” and called it a potential “damp squib”.
In a statement from Jamie Horsley, published by the university, she apologised for the “unwise choice of words” used.
In her email she said: “I don’t think any ‘reply’ as noted below is necessary. I would equate such actions to cyber terrorism and I don’t feel the need to respond.”
China Is Touting Its Totalitarianism Taming of the Coronavirus Over U.S. Democratic Failure
The Chinese Communist Party may be demonstrating a superior and lasting form of governance over the evolving American model.
For months, President Donald Trump and his White House advisor Larry Kudlow continually touted that the United States was on a V-shaped economic recovery, suggesting a swift upward turn to pre-pandemic levels in the midst of his administration’s failure to manage the economy and the coronavirus pandemic. In June 2020, Trump said that “this is better than a V. This is a rocket ship. This is far better than a V.” In late September, Kudlow again argued that a V-shaped recovery does not depend on another round of federal financial relief. Yet, even as Congress passed the second stimulus package in late December, the Trump administration’s claims that the United States was on its way to a V-shaped recovery have thus far proven to be illusory. In fact, what is “rea