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Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on China 80th pre-session Attacks on women’s rights activists including in the context of the #MeToo movement (Articles 1, 2, 3, and 7) Two years after the #MeToo movement took off in China, Chinese women’s rights activists face a political environment in which the Chinese Communist Party’s control over the internet, media, and independent activism is tighter than the previous 30 years.[1] Since the Chinese government prohibits collective actions, the country’s #MeToo movement has not been able to manifest ...

The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for January 29, 2021 January 28, 2021 Transcript: Huey: Granddad, any turkey you buy for Thanksgiving might be infected. Granddad: The news said bird flu ain't gotten to birds over here yet! Huey: But how do you know where the turkey came from? Maybe it's from China. You think they'd tell you if it was? Granddad: Does China export turkeys to the United States? Huey: You wanna find out the hard way? 8

© Getty Images When America seeks to address a crisis or achieve preeminence, it looks to science. This is true whether the issue is the economy, climate change, national security or even a pandemic. And yet, today, Americans spend more on potato chips than on energy research. For President Biden and the new Congress, the time is now for new thinking about how we prioritize and fund science, as well as public primary and secondary education. In 2019 we spent one tenth of one percent of the GDP on biomedical basic research but nearly 18 percent of the GDP on health care. And what of overall c...

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on January 21, 2021

A cursory review of his stated positions reveals as much. One of many things that will distinguish a President Joe Biden from his predecessor is that the incoming president is likely to speak less in public, mostly because of how he garbles his thoughts and words. The most recent example was when he called Peter Doocy of Fox News a “one-horse pony.” Translators are still working to decipher that one. Another difference will be trying to figure out who Biden really is and what he means by self-identifying as a “centrist.” Whether or not one believes President Donald Trump is a true con...