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02/18/2021 08:30 AM EST
Good morning and welcome to a guest-hosted China Watcher! With our original watcher, David Wertime, moving over to our sister site Protocol, we ll be introducing you to a few guest writers over the following weeks that we hope will bring some new perspectives on the Beijing-Washington relationship, and the power centers in between. Allow me to introduce your first guest host: Robin Shepherd, former journalist and vice president of HFX (which runs the annual Halifax International Security Forum) and author of China vs. Democracy: The Greatest Game. Take it away, Robin. Ben Pauker, world and natio
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02/04/2021 08:35 AM EST
There s no evidence that President Joe Biden and Chinese ruler Xi Jinping have talked since Biden s inauguration, and that seems to be fine with Washington. Chinese diplomats are calling for a return to normalcy, which includes plenty of talking but no restraints on wolf warrior insults or conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, last week Biden s national security adviser articulated a China policy that mostly involves rebuilding American competitiveness and alliances implicitly without need for Beijing s involvement at all.
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02/03/2021 08:00 AM EST
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Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro didn’t mince words when addressing the anger surrounding a piece published by him at the Politico website when mass complaints from Politico staff began rolling in once his column was published on their site.
As detailed by the Daily Wire, over 100 Politico journalists signed their name to a letter to Robert Allbritton, the site’s publisher, demanding that the newsroom goes through some changes to staff diversity and its editorial process after Shapiro’s column was published.
After Shapiro’s column was published, indicating that the left wants to lump everyone on the right in with the rioters at the Capitol on January 6, Politico Editor-in-Chief Matthew Kaminski held a 200 staff member call where he defended his position to publish Shapiro’s piece. According to Kaminski, the editorial team was attempting to keep the site “vital and vibrant” by adding ideological diversity in the form of Shap