The World Must Not Mimic China's Authoritarian Model to Fight COVID-19
Its rulers tried to cover up an epidemic, then declared war on their people to control it.
Its rulers tried to cover up an epidemic, then declared war on their people to control it.
Trump's anti-China trade advisor, Peter Navarro, is now playing a major role in the White House's coronavirus response. What could go wrong?
It's almost like Americans are paying for them, and like Trump doesn't actually believe in free trade.
The contagious spread of information is in a race against the contagious spread of coronavirus.
When the state controls the media and foreign reporters are banned, outsiders should be wary of information they’re getting from inside China.
The big unknown is how many people are infected but aren't counted in the official numbers because their symptoms are mild or nonexistent.
In the pandemic's wake, we'll learn, work, and live more online than ever.
Plague Inc. simulates the spread of coronavirus.
Here's what public health experts are saying.
The biotech entrepreneur and Silicon Valley visionary wants mandatory quarantines and a "digital Dunkirk" rescue operation.
The biotech entrepreneur and Silicon Valley visionary calls for a "digital Dunkirk" to fix government failure and preserve future freedoms.
The extent of state and federal quarantine powers is surprisingly unsettled.
Looking at better and worse projections.
But Sanders is also right that America has made some terrible foreign policy mistakes in the past.
People are panicking and sketchy information is spreading fast, but rapid vaccine and anti-viral deployment should blunt the epidemic's health and economic effects in the coming year.
Instead of $12.5 billion in new agriculture purchases exports to China this year, the USDA expects less than $4 billion.
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Stephen Moore and Gene Epstein debate whether or not President Trump's Chinese trade policy deserves broad public support.
If the only way to beat China is to become like China, then we've already lost.
Somebody tell the FBI and Congress.
The Chinese Communist Party confiscated a sacred meteorite from Muslim herders. They're suing to get it back.
Stephen Moore and Gene Epstein debate whether or not President Trump's Chinese trade policy deserves broad public support.
Efforts to control the flow of information fail, but they muddle the quality of what people share in defiance of the censors.
But without specifying an actual cybersecurity risk, the policy comes off looking like a wasteful protectionist maneuver that will likely put human pilots back in riskier situations.
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We will soon learn if humanity's increasing biotechnical prowess can prevent a modern pandemic.
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China is responsible for a huge portion of the world's plastic waste. There's still reason to be wary of its plastics crackdown.
Unless the tariffs are lifted, the "Phase One" trade deal might not accomplish much beyond empowering China's communist regime to tighten its grip on free markets.
"These U.S. tariffs have been completely passed on to U.S. firms and consumers," report economists from Princeton, Columbia, and the Federal Reserve.
He Jiankui's moral failings should not be used as an excuse to delay a technology that could prevent inheritable diseases.
This deal offers minimal relief for Americans, and it doesn't seem to address the thorniest issues between the two countries.
Deadlines near for the NAFTA rewrite and the China negotiations.
Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers have taken to the streets, smashed lamp posts, and stormed government buildings to keep China from encroaching on Hong Kong's freedoms prematurely.
Can they do it fast enough to stop the African swine fever apocalypse?
The set of tariffs scheduled for December 15 will hit a wide range of consumer goods from children's toys to laptops, gaming consoles, and other home electronics. They will be costly and ineffective..
The vast majority of opium users in China were not the desperate addicts portrayed by proponents of prohibition.
The president takes credit for the fact that Beijing hasn't sent tanks into Hong Kong.
The tariffs were supposed to create the conditions for such a deal, but Trump is refusing to drop them as part of an agreement.
Escalating violence in Hong Kong
For decades, the U.S. Postal Service has charged some countries less than it charges domestic shippers to move packages within the United States.