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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Over the past two decades, China has emerged as one of the most important markets for Latin American countries
First in a four-part exclusive Asia Times interview with renowned physicist and Big Bang theory critic Eric Lerner
Second in a four-part exclusive Asia Times interview with physicist and Big Bang theory critic Eric Lerner
Pre-election Pew survey shows developed nation respondents view China more unfavorably than US, though not by much
President Vladimir Putin must know Biden doesn’t like his ways and means but that shouldn’t particularly perturb him
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from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, WA
Don’t look now, but Trump did better in blue King County than he did the last time
Here’s an election shocker: Donald Trump did a bit better in King County in 2020 than he did the first time he ran four years ago. They’re still counting votes, but so far, Trump got 50,000 more people to back him in the bluest county in the state than he did in 2016. Trump also is carrying a slightly higher percentage of both the county and the statewide vote, up about 0.5 percent from his share in 2016. It will be a relief to see Trump leave, at least for people like me who feel he’s a toxic con artist who never should have been leading the country. But the conditions of his defeat are not exactly inspiring. Yes it’s the end of an error, a critical righting of a historic wrong, buoyed by gratifyingly strong turnout. But 72 million voters were fine with continuing it. Trump got a quarter-million more votes statewide in Washington than any GOP presidential candidate ever has. Even in deep blue King County, 50,000 more voters said “yeah, sure, put us down for four more years of that.” Already now, the progressives and the mainline Democrats have set aside their Trump truce to start tearing each other apart like it’s 2016.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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When is an emergency over? Firefighters are demobilized when the fire is out. The National Guard is deactivated when order is restored. What’s the end game for the COVID-19 state of emergency? When a state of emergency was declared for a measles outbreak in Clark County in 2019, there was a clear goal. The outbreak would be over and the state of emergency ended when two full incubation periods (42 days) had passed since the date of rash onset in the last known case with no new cases reported. No similarly clear target has been offered for COVID-19, nor is it possible. Zero new cases is clearly unrealistic for a disease rapidly approaching endemic status, according to the WHO. We have to learn to live with it instead of hiding from it. It will take better education, better communication and transparency in decision-making. A society cannot flourish with a population living in a constant state of emergency.
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