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‘U.S. aims to turn Taiwan into giant arms depot’

SEE THAT HEADLINE? “U.S. Aims to Turn Taiwan Into Giant Weapons Depot”. This is not from the news spoof website called The Onion. This is an ACTUAL HEADLINE in the New York Times today. The article doesn’t present this as a bizarre and incredibly dangerous thing to do. It presents it as an ordinary news…

October 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Uyghur skier came from “the ancient cradle of skiing”

CHINESE SKIER Dinigeer Yilamujiang was born in a region that historians think was one of the sites where skiing originated. While ancient remains of skis have been found in Russia dating back 6,000 years, a similarly ancient cave painting showing human figures sliding on small platforms on slopes over a herd of animals was…

February 5, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

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3 predictions the writers hope will be forgotten

WATCH THIS REPORT as a two-minute video, below, or scroll down to read it in print. The Economist earlier this year confidently told the world that China would fail to achieve a reasonable level of vaccination until late in 2022. Here’s the chart. But the data shows that China speedily achieved one of the…

November 1, 20210Comments ByNury Vittachi

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The media revises history: video

Richard Cullen wrote that the media was editing the violence of 2019 Hong Kong out of history. Here’s evidence

October 12, 2021283Comments ByFriday Writers

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