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Welcome, China Watchers. This week’s guest host is Jude Blanchette, the
Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the author of China s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong, published by Oxford University Press in 2019. Take it away, Jude. Ben Pauker, world and national security editor
GM Defense has a new chief engineer March 10
GM Defense was awarded a contract to produce the Army s new Infantry Squad Vehicle and has appointed a new chief engineer to help lead the business into next-generation combat vehicle development efforts in the defense sector. (Photo courtesy of GM Defense) WASHINGTON GM Defense has brought on Rick Kewley as its new executive chief engineer, who will be in charge of all engineering and program execution at the General Motors subsidiary, according to a March 10 company statement. Kewley has a long history at GM a 27-year career and most recently served as GM’s executive director of Global Product Development Quality.
Italy was about to enter lockdown as the second week of March 2020 opened for business, and lots of us had started washing our hands more frequently, but how many Washingtonians could have foreseen that many people in the area were about to work from home for more than a year? We took a look back at what
Washingtonian published one year ago this week, and while we can laugh a tiny bit at how little we knew about what was ahead of us public officials were warning us
against wearing face masks at the time, “Karen” was simply a name, and it might have seemed farfetched that the President would encourage his fans to storm the Capitol after he lost an election retrospect does kind of make you wonder what the rest of 2021 has in store.
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03/04/2021 08:29 AM EST
Hi, China Watchers! Please join me in welcoming your guest host for this week, Diana Fu, a scholar of Chinese politics at the University of Toronto, a fellow at Brookings, the Wilson Center, NCUSCR and occasional TV host. She is author of the award-winning book, Mobilizing without the Masses. Over to you, Diana. Ben Pauker, world and national security editor.
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02/25/2021 08:41 AM EST
Hi, China Watchers! Please join me in welcoming your guest host for this week, Melissa Chan, a correspondent formerly based in China and now in Germany, from where she reports on transnational issues, often involving China’s influence beyond its borders from Berlin to Quito to the Amazon jungle. Over to you, Melissa.