Could Trump Have Another Reason for Banning TikTok?
David Talukdar, Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The latest target in the Trump administration’s escalating tensions with China is TikTok, the wildly popular music-video app with 2 billion downloads worldwide and a 165 million in the United States. “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning…
A New State Department Report Cements Mike Pompeo’s Twisted View of Human Rights
Jim Loscalzo/CNP/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched an advisory panel to help the US practice “a moral foreign policy … grounded in [a] conception of human rights.” Crucially, its mission, Pompeo explained, would include reining in a dangerous proliferation of “new”…
Say It Under Oath, Asshole
John Bolton on August 29, 2019, Minsk, Belarus.Yuri Oreshkin/TASS via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last October, President Donald Trump said, on television, that “China should start an investigation into the Bidens” and reiterated his previously private push for Ukraine to investigate the former vice…
John Bolton’s Book Claims Trump Called Muslim Concentration Camps in China the “Right Thing to Do”
Ivanov Artyom/TASS/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump reportedly said China’s decision to detain Uighur Muslims in concentration camps was “exactly the right thing to do” and encouraged Chinese leader Xi Jinping to “go ahead with building the camps,” according to a book excerpt published…
Trump’s Crackdown on Protesters Is Great News for Chinese Propagandists
Ivanov Artyom/TASS/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As tensions between China and the United States have escalated in recent years, June 4 has become an increasingly important date for American political leaders, especially ones who are hawkish on China. On that day in 1989, Chinese security forces…
Hong Kong Protesters Brave Pandemic Fears and Tear Gas to Denounce China’s Big Security Push
A protester was detained by riot police during a demonstration against Beijing’s national security legislation in Hong Kong on Sunday. Police fired volleys of tear gas in a popular shopping district as hundreds took to the streets.Vincent Yu/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Pro-democracy protests in Hong…