New U.S. Visa Rules Prompt Scrutiny of CCP Members
The Pudong district of Shanghai, May 2018 (Franck Michel, https://flic.kr/p/PCRxyZ; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
On Dec. 2, the State Department issued new restrictions on travel visas for members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their families. All CCP members will be restricted to single-entry visas, which are valid for a month. By contrast, other Chinese citizens may obtain multiple-entry visas that can last up to 10 years.
Even before the announcement, U.S. border officials had reportedly begun questioning Chinese airline crews and sailors sometimes for hours about whether or not they had CCP membership. Asked about the investigations, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said, “We urge the U.S. side to immediately stop the erroneous acts, stop stoking ideological antagonism, and stop unjustified crack-down on China. If the U.S. side insists on escalating its provocative ac
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The voice of which America?
The voice of which America?
Only the most naive imagine that the international broadcasting organization called Voice of America speaks for us all.
(December 10, 2020 / JNS) Whether most Americans even know it, they are paying for an international broadcasting organization called Voice of America, or VOA. Yet only the most naive imagine that it speaks for us all. In reality, though its charter confidently promises to “represent America, not any single segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and comprehensive projection of significant American thought and institutions,” that has been mostly wishful thinking. As former VOA executive Ted Lipien observes, “there are two Americas, one left-leaning liberal America and one right-leaning conservative America. But the taxpayer-funded VOA, in the $800 million USAGM, not only reflects but also represents just one of them illegally.”