The chinese communist party has been cultivating business people, academics and think tank types for decades. They offer them money, women, power, whatever they want if they do as the party told them to. We've seen tens of thousands of hong konges move, mostly to the united kingdom, canada, australia, tiwan. And another really important group that the party targeted were academics.
America’s Supreme Court has essentially shorn the Environmental Protection Agency of its agency in making national policy. We ask what that means for the climate-change fight. Hong Kong is marking 25 years since its handover from Britain to China; the promised “one country, two systems” approach is all but gone already. And why moustaches are back in Iraq.
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