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In this issue of Global Impact, we look back at the most high-profile visit by a US official to Taiwan in 25 years, unpack the events that followed, and examine the fallout of what could be a major milestone in US-China relations.

Is Florida governor Ron DeSantis a Donald Trump clone – or viable alternative for 2024? DeSantis deserves some credit for his handling of the Covid-19 crisis, keeping numbers in control while avoiding economically crippling lockdowns Though seen as a potential alternative to Trump in the 2024 presidential election, he is giving mixed signals as to whether he wants to appeal to the majority or Trump’s hardcore base

Opinion On Balance by Robert Delaney Long March rocket’s re-entry a warning from the heavens that US, China hubris must change Beijing’s disparaging ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy is starting to look more like the approach of former US president Donald Trump In the absurdity of the new political paradigms in Beijing and Washington, the word hypocrisy no longer has any meaning

Opinion On Balance by Robert Delaney George Floyd verdict a milestone in US shift to a more just society, but Republicans are chipping away at it The police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor set off a long-overdue tectonic shift But no one should think racial injustice in America is over. Nor is the discord that Republicans of the Trumpian variety worked hard to entrench

The demotion of a Voice of America journalist after she tried to ask a question of the secretary of state invites an unflattering comparison with the Chinese government’s treatment of citizens who ‘pick quarrels and provoke trouble’.