Tag: USA

(USA) What the 2020 census will reveal about America: Stagnating growth, an aging population, and youthful diversity (William H. Frey, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/what-the-2020-census-will-reveal-about-america-stagnating-growth-an-aging-population-and-youthful-diversity/

(USA) The role of misinformation in Trump’s insurrection (Darrell M. West, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2021/01/11/the-role-of-misinformation-in-trumps-insurrection/

(USA) Trump approves state of emergency declaration in US capital (Al Jazeera)

Donald Trump has approved a state of emergency declaration in the United States capital, the White House press office said late on Monday, after...

(USA/(Indo-Pacific) Biden and the Indo-Pacific – Will regional powers shape America’s approach? (Kashish Parpiani, Pratnashree Basu, ORF)

US President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, recently outlined the worldview of the incoming administration. In a televised interview, Sullivan...

(China/USA) Twitter’s decision to delete Chinese Embassy post on Xinjiang shows ‘hypocrisy’ of US ‘freedom of speech’ (Global Times)

A scholar from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has slammed the hypocrisy over so-called freedom of speech in the US and the West,...

(USA) Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JP Morgan to pause political donations (Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. plan to pause all political contributions, joining a growing list of companies changing...

(USA) Washington, DC mayor wants tighter security at Biden inauguration (Al Jazeera)

The mayor of Washington, DC has asked for security to be bolstered during United States President-elect Joe Biden’s January 20 inauguration in the US...

(USA) ‘Toothless tiger’: Impeachment could bar Trump from future office (Joseph Stepansky

An extraordinary breach of the United States Capitol by rioters egged on by President Donald Trump has led legislators into uncharted territory as they set course...

(USA) Amazon to suspend Parler after deadly Capitol Hill riot (Al Jazeera)

Amazon has announced it will suspend Parler, a social media platform popular with right-wing users that has already been banned by Apple and Google...

(USA) The police in the US must enforce pandemic measures (Julia Maskivker, Al Jazeera)

At the apex of this pandemic, it is shocking that the US federal government has no legal right to enforce a nationwide lockdown and...

(USA/South Asia) South Asian litmus test for Biden foreign policy strategy (East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/11/south-asian-litmus-test-for-biden-foreign-policy-strategy/

(USA/South Asia) How will Biden’s strategy on South Asia differ from Trump’s? (Michael Kugelman, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/10/how-will-bidens-strategy-on-south-asia-differ-from-trumps/

(China/USA/Taiwan) Pompeo ‘ending limits’ on relations breaks bottom line of China-US ties, puts Taiwan in imminent danger: experts (Xu Keyue and Guo Yuandan, Global...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's announcement on lifting restrictions on Taiwan relations broke the bottom line of China-US ties, and the outgoing Trump...

(USA) More violence to emerge in US as ‘divergences remain unsolved’ (Yang Sheng and Liu Caiyu, Global Times)

After the shocking and historic incident that happened at the Capitol Hill in Washington DC last week, Democrats and establishment elites in the US...

(USA) Double standards on Trump, HK riots (Zhao Yusha, Chen Qingqing and Leng Shumei, Global Times)

US social media platforms' sharply contrasting reactions to US President Donald Trump's messages of violent content and those of Hong Kong rioters have fully...

(USA) With the silencing of Trump, how does freedom of speech feel? (Global Times)

Twitter banned the account of US President Donald Trump. Other US social network giants followed suit. The impact might be even larger than that...