Former Chicago mayor and Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has an op-ed in theWall Street Journal encouraging Americans to put aside their differences, stop hating each other, and focus on hating China instead. As a piece of anti-China propaganda, it’s a remarkable document, because of how little evidence it presents that China is actually a threat to the United States. Instead, Emanuel is quite open about encouraging animosity toward China only because it would serve domestic political purposes (namely, tamping down the left-wing and right-wing political movements he dislikes).
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, continues to insist that without full recognition of the rights of Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine, no peace is possible. “Our goal was, and remains, to protect the Russian people who have lived on this land for centuries,” he told an interviewer on August 19. Meanwhile, Russia bombs the very […]