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Chip Somodevilla Getty Images Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump speaks on a screen from New York City on the second day of the Republican National Convention, July 19, 2016, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party’s nomination. How Should the Republican Party Approach China Policy? A ChinaFile Conversation by Peter Navarro, Patrick Chovanec, Sidney Rittenberg, Damien Ma, David Wertime, James A. Millward, Edward Friedman, Kevin Slaten, Sulmaan Khan, Andrew J. Nathan, Taisu Zhang, Jeremy Goldkorn, Dan Blumenthal, Ho-fung Hung July 20, 2016 The ChinaFile Conversation is a weekly, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. ....
I’ve run across several excellent critiques of Justice Gorsuch’s majority opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County (on top, of course, of the compelling dissents by Justices Alito and Kavanaugh). A non-exhaustive list: 1. In this Law and Liberty essay, law professor John McGinnis, who is very high on, if not at the top of, my list of best constitutional commentators, explains that Gorsuch’s opinion “embraces a desiccated literalism over a common-sense understanding of a text’s public meaning”: The only way Gorsuch can avoid conceding that Alito’s is a better interpretation is to read the language as a kind of computer code, divorced from the understanding that people would have given to the phrase “discriminate . . . because of the individual’s sex.” … ....
GM Last month, GM announced that it was ramping up its electrification efforts and aiming to have 30 EVs on the market by the end of 2025. Turns out we might see some of those vehicles very, very soon: according to Bloomberg, the automaker will give us a peek at some of its EVs at the online-only CES in January. GM CEO Mary Barra will also give the opening keynote on January 12th and will reportedly focus on explaining how electrification is necessary to achieve environmental and societal change. Bloomberg says GM will show a video at the event showcasing its latest technologies and previewing some of its concept vehicles, including a plug-in Chevrolet pickup, some electric Cadillac models and EVs from its other brands. As ....