US calls China ‘rogue state’, cites border attack — Pramit Pal Chaudhuri

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was careful to focus his criticism on the Chinese Communist Party but unusually cited Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, by name...

The new US geopolitical strategy is based on ramping up its prior geopolitical strategy based anti-Communism after mothballing it during the Chimerica détente, in effect resuming the Cold War.

Western liberal had a lot of soft power back then, though, and that's been diminishing at a rapid rate for years.

Hindustan Times (India)
US calls China ‘rogue state’, cites border attack
Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

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I am definitely not in my normal morning rhythm today (hence only 7 articles in today’s aggregator). Part of that may be due to meeting up with some friends in Athens yesterday, but that’s certainly not the whole story. Athens is still mainly deserted, by the way, which is kind of nice and refreshing, but also very obviously hurtful to many people’s incomes.

But what really bumped me off my rhythm is reading the stories, and reactions to them, about AG Barr asking US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geffrey Berman to resign, and the latter refusing to comply. Reading through all the related articles had one notion, one fear, creep up on me: that the US is at a serious risk of becoming ungovernable. And I mean: serious.

Whoever wins on November 4, Trump or Biden(?!), may well be unacceptable and unaccepted by half the country. And what happens then? Are we going to have a civil war? I’ll get back to that soon. It’s not like this is the first time it ever occurred to me, but it has gained a lot of weight -and risk- lately.

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In US-Gefängnissen sitzen weit mehr Afroamerikaner als Weiße. Die ungleiche Verteilung geht auf über hundert Jahre Ungerechtigkeit im Justizsystem zurück. Rassistische Polizisten sind dabei nur ein Problem.

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Colonial baggage. Is racism systemic in Western (white-dominant) countries owing to the history of imperialism and colonialism on which their wealth of their (mostly white) bourgeoisie is built?

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