Americans Are Getting Evacuated from China because of the Coronavirus
Kyodo/AP American diplomats and their families are getting evacuated from Wuhan, China, which has become the epicenter of an outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. In an effort to contain the epidemic, Chinese authorities have nearly completely cut off this city of 11 million from the rest of China, with all transportation and other points of…
China Announces Major Anti-Plastic Campaign
Workers stand over piles of used white plastic food containers at a construction site in Hefei, in eastern China’s Anhui provinceSTR/Getty The Chinese government has said it plans to ban plastic bags in the country’s major cities by the end of the year, Reuters reports. The bags will be banned in the rest of the country…
Heroes of the 2010s: Wikipedia
Mother Jones illustration; NurPhoto/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Late at night, I read about obscure mob figures. When federal agents busted a bunch of Gambino associates a while back and announced a few had been spotted visiting an imprisoned Mafioso named Frank Locascio, I researched…
The New York Times Just Published Leaked Documents Detailing China’s Brutal Crackdown on Muslims
Uighur women grieving for their men who they claim were taken away by the Chinese authorities in Urumqi, China, in 2009. Ng Han Guan/AP In one of the biggest leaks from China’s Community Party in decades, reporters at the New York Times have gotten their hands on hundreds of pages of documents and secret speeches…
Does Hong Kong Even Need the NBA?
Activists wear “Free Hong Kong” T-shirts before an NBA exhibition game on Wednesday between the Washington Wizards and the Guangzhou Loong Lions in Washington, DC.Nick Wass/AP Last Friday night, Daryl Morey, the general manager of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, tweeted an image with the seemingly innocuous text: “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.” Within…
New Ruling in Mar-a-Lago Intruder Case Raises Question of Chinese Espionage
Yujing Zhang at a court hearing on April 15, 2019.Daniel Pontet/AP Since Donald Trump was sworn in as president, his frequent visits to Mar-a-Lago, his private Palm Beach club, have raised counterintelligence concerns: Were foreign spies targeting the facility to gain access to Trump, his family, or his associates? On Wednesday, a federal judge in…