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China Is America’s Beast From Hell
Whereas Moscow’s foreign policy has been moved by insecurity, China’s foreign policy has been moved by the specter of humiliation and now both countries have teamed up.
The recent declaration by President Joseph Biden that Russian president Vladimir Putin is “a killer” and the fallout from the U.S.-China meeting in Anchorage are undoubtedly an assertion of both American public decency and grievances against China and Russia. However, this stance is lost in an amoral geopolitical world and does not advance American national interests. In fact, this stance, largely reflecting institutional orthodoxy, risks underestimating the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership, whose primary driving force is challenging America’s global hegemony. In order for the United States to deter this partnership’s challenge, it has to pursue a viable multilateral foreign policy approach, preconditioned by revitalized alliances, and grounded in a bi
Berardo Museum among the 100 most visited museums in the world in 2020 By TPN/Lusa, in News, Art · 03-04-2021 16:58:00 · 0 Comments
The Berardo Collection Museum, in Lisbon, occupies the 72nd place in the list of the 100 most visited museums in the world in 2020, with 317 thousand visitors, according to The Art Newspaper.
According to the list of the international publication specializing in contemporary art, the Berardo Museum, located in Belém, is again, the only Portuguese museum to enter this list of the 100 most visited ones in the world in 2020, led by the Louvre Museum, in Paris, with 2.7 million entries.
In the list of the 100 most visited, there are also three museums in Brazil: in the 18th position, the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, in Rio de Janeiro, with 790 thousand visitors, in the 75th positio
I want to understand the conceptual roots of the way I think.
What’s the most important lesson history has taught you?
That when it repeats itself, no one notices.
Which history book has had greatest influence on you?
A History of Science in World Cultures by Scott Montgomery.
What book in your field should everyone read?
Virgil and the Moderns by Theodore Ziolkowski.
Which moment would you most like to go back to?
None look too good to me as a woman.
Which historian has had the greatest influence on you?
Herodotus, for showing the cultural side of morality.
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Visitors gawk at Chang’e-5 lunar samples on display at the National Museum of China in Beijing. TINGSHU WANG/REUTERS
China’s premier astronomy and planetary resources lure foreign collaborators
Apr. 1, 2021 , 11:15 AM
For a generation, China played scientific catch-up to more advanced nations, but the tables are turning. China has the world’s largest radio telescope and the first Moon rocks in 45 years. Now, it is offering foreign researchers access to those scientific treasures. Many are eager, but others are uneasy about what they see as collaborating with an authoritarian regime.
In December 2020, the Chang’e-5 mission returned 1.7 kilograms of rock and soil from the Moon the first lunar samples since 1976, and a chance for researchers to obtain dates that could help unravel Solar System history. On 18 January, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) confirmed it would encourage “joint international research” on the samples, and it may begin