Page 13 - Hidden Hand News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

European Parliament votes to freeze EU-China investment deal Issued on: 20/05/2021 - 18:00 One of the buildings of the European Parliament. On 20 May, members voted on a resolution regarding Chinese sanctions against MEP's. AFP - SEBASTIEN BOZON 4 min With an overwhelming majority, the European Parliament passed a motion recommending to formally freeze the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement for Investment (CAI).Tension has escalated since Brussels condemned China's human rights situation in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, resulting in...

May 2021 What kind of pathos appeals to white women? This has been a central question of political election punditry (and Hillary Clinton’s personal night terrors) for a decade, as well as the central question of American suburban life for the past 100 years. What do these white women want? What makes them mad? What relieves their madness—ahem, their anger? And why is the The single most useful answer to all these questions is relatively simple, and if you are a white woman, perhaps more obvious than simple: guilty pleasure. I just finished having brunch with author Arielle Zibrak and—...

EU hesitates over investment deal with increasingly authoritarian China Issued on: Audio 05:31 Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders attend the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China March 10, 2021. REUTERS - CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS 26 min China has recently drawn damaging international criticism because of plans by the National People's Congress to further curtail freedom in Hong Kong. In spite of that, Beijing and Br...

Revolver  has teamed up with The Obsessed for an exclusive Transparent Blue with Black Smoke vinyl variant of their classic album The Church Within In the early Eighties, Washington, D.C.'s music scene was pretty clearly split between longhairs clinging to the supercharged Seventies sounds of heshers like Zeppelin and Sabbath and a new crew of short-cropped kids diving headfirst into the hardcore punk scene of Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Flag and more. It was during this time that Scott "Wino" Weinrich launched his now-iconic stoner doom crew the Obsessed in nearby Potomac, Maryland. Hi...

Peter Mandelson assured the Chinese PM that critics of Beijing's human-rights record would be 'proved wrong' during a lobbying meeting on behalf of rich clients. The Labour peer, who has been advising party leader Sir Keir Starmer on how to boost his poll ratings, told the meeting of business leaders and Chinese officials that Premier Li Keqiang 'would not be hearing complaints from the European side today' – despite mounting international criticism of China's authoritarian rule and alleged cover-up of the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. Minutes of the February 5 meeting, which have b...