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China must pay for its actions China's Social Credit System

China must pay for its actions

Even before the Wuhan virus crisis international relations had entered into a phase of new disruptions triggered by Trump’s inward looking, anti-globalisation and protectionist policies, erosion of multilateralism, renewed US unilateralism in repudiating the Paris climate change accord, the Iranian nuclear deal, signed trade agreements, and extra-territorial application of US…
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May 19, 2020
The Queen pays tribute to guests invited to the Buckingham Palace garden party 2020 The Queen

The Queen pays tribute to guests invited to the Buckingham Palace garden party 2020

Buckingham Palace has celebrated some of the guests who should have been attending its summer garden parties, and pledged to see them next year instead.The Queen's gatherings on the neatly-manicured lawns of her London home, and at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.Tuesday…
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May 19, 2020
China Gets New Tech Billionaire As Bilibili Founder Joins Elite Group Alibaba

China Gets New Tech Billionaire As Bilibili Founder Joins Elite Group

Bilibili staff gathered at the company's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New... York on March 28, 2018. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP China streaming site Bililbili has added a second billionaire among its leaders after the company's Nasdaq-traded shares rose to a record on…
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May 19, 2020
Merkel’s milestone moment Jean-Claude Juncker

Merkel’s milestone moment

Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — She did it! In the twilight of her chancellorship, Angela Merkel has secured her place in the pantheon of European statesmanship by agreeing to common EU borrowing to help the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus…
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May 19, 2020