Whole entire world

Singapore had previously received its first batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last month. At the time, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong stressed that the vaccine would be completely voluntary for the citizens of Singapore, Reuters reported. … [Read more...] about Singapore Airlines aims to vaccinate entire workforce, become first fully-vaccinated carrier in the world

Some tennis stars have expressed anger and frustration at being kept cooped up ahead of the first grand slam of the tennis season. They include record eight-time Australian Open men's singles winner Novak Djokovic, who put forward a list of proposals that would loosen the restrictions on the quarantining stars, including moving players to houses with courts, better food, and reducing the number of days in isolation. … [Read more...] about Australian Open turmoil raises questions for Tokyo Games

It was those events and the accompanying strategic ambiguity doctrine that precipitated China’s massive buildup, as Beijing mobilized to exploit the very U.S. “uncertainty” Sullivan and Campbell disparage earlier in their piece. The authors state: “The U.S. strategy of containment was built on the prediction that the Soviet Union would one day crumble under its own weight — that it contained ‘the seeds of its own decay,’ as George Kennan, the diplomat who first laid out the strategy, declared with conviction.”   … [Read more...] about The Biden team must beware of losing a US-China cold war

Since 1949, China’s communist government has followed the same path of tyranny against its own people that Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hitler’s Germany, and North Korea’s Kim dynasty imposed on their helpless populations. And it was Mao Zedong who succinctly stated the common approach that defines all those dictators and mass murderers: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” … [Read more...] about Time running out to stop China’s new cold-war aggressions

In fact, it is a particularly favorite credo of nations that consider themselves being targeted by the United States, including all of those now included in President Trump’s new version of the “axis of evil.” North Korea, a nation the president threatens to “totally destroy” and whose leader he calls “rocket man,” is particularly fond of invoking sovereignty as its argument against U.N. sanctions. Characteristically, speaking at this very U.N. forum two years ago, the North Korean foreign minister argued that conducting nuclear tests was his country’s “legitimate right” as a “sovereign state.” … [Read more...] about Is America a ‘sovereign’ nation? A look at Trump’s new favorite word