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April 14, 2020
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 219 of 219The NYTimes media reporter interviewed the NYTimes editor in chief about NYTimes coverage of the Biden accuser Reade. This came up in Althouse comments in the last few days, so here's one small part of that interview:
Q: Why was Kavanaugh treated differently?
A: Kavanaugh was already in a public forum in a large way. Kavanaugh’s status as a Supreme Court justice was in question because of a very serious allegation. And when I say in a public way, I don’t mean in the public way of Tara Reade’s. If you ask the average person in America, they didn’t know about the Tara Reade case. So I thought in that case, if The New York Times was going to introduce this to readers, we needed to introduce it with some reporting and perspective. Kavanaugh was in a very different situation. It was a live, ongoing story that had become the biggest political story in the country. It was just a different news judgment moment.
Easter Weekend death holiday over in Sweden. To be honest, it went up less than I expected. So maybe it really is flattening.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
So if they attacked taiwan or guam, then youd say they should be countered.
J. Farmer@12:22AM/
In ABSOLUTE, TOTAL agreement with you. The very essence of the source of the current dysfunctions in our civic culture..
but Britain, France and the Netherlands failed
Guess the Normans don't count, since they were Vikings.
Decoupling will be a protracted process that would require a strong, united front. I can't imagine the US coming together in such a manner, given the extreme divides that define the polity now. It would also require the US to basically abandon it's "leadership" and accept a more limited role in international affairs.
I completely disagree with this. I think the younger buyers in the US already show a proclivity for searching out more quality products, produced more safely, or more green, or produced in a company or country that abides by the standards they prefer. You see it in buying habits that start as novel start-ups that get some buzz, but then go more mainstream. And it is already happening in virtually every product category.
Once the buying public starts demanding a more quality product, or a safer product, or a greener product, or a US MADE product, this will start to happen. Currently container-loads of product in all categories coming out of China are generally subpar quality from what could be produced elsewhere with quality controls, and a more incentivized labor force. I see it in my own industry- all over our industry. Those who buy from China get subpar products, but can sell them at lower prices. The public is being schooled- finally.
And as for our limiting our involvement internationally. While I'd like to see some areas where we step back, China is not stepping back. And we are the only deterrent to their show of power around the world. That, and their own people revolting at some point.
Althouse’s Bleeding Hemorrhoid Brigade up all night again!
While we will likely have to cede the Indo-Pacific region to China's sphere of influence…
India is certainly going to have a great deal to say about that — and it now appears that they'll say it (in part) with a U.S. alliance.
Thats why they have pakistan as proxy, why they provided assistance for the former nuclear facility at kahuta.
like so
Pakistan is no counterweight for India. China's going to have to do a lot better than that if it wants to counter both India and an allied United States to dominate the Indian Ocean.
@Michael McNeil:
India is certainly going to have a great deal to say about that — and it now appears that they'll say it (in part) with a U.S. alliance.
We have no alliance with India. Barriers between US and Indian cooperation remain on a number of fronts. Modi himself is pursuing a nationalist agenda aimed at increasing India's domestic production.
“Althouse’s Bleeding Hemorrhoid Brigade up all night again!”
He sees bleeding hemorrhoids everywhere.
We have no (formal) alliance with India — yet. FIFY.
But even without a (formal) alliance with the U.S., India is probably capable of countering China entirely on its own.
At the end of the 21st Century I think it is far more likely that people will look back on a century dominated by India than by China.
@Michael McNeil:
We have no (formal) alliance with India — yet. FIFY.
Trump's recent visit to India resulted in no significant agreement between the two countries, and there are still a number of unresolved questions. I think it is very unlikely that we will see anything remotely resembling a formal alliance between the two countries.
But even without a (formal) alliance with the U.S., India is probably capable of countering China entirely on its own.
For now I think that's true. Although China has been making use of its base in Djibouti to operated in the Indian Ocean. But still, South Asia is not China's primary theater, and it's hard to imagine what would compel China to challenge India militarily.
@Andy:
At the end of the 21st Century I think it is far more likely that people will look back on a century dominated by India than by China.
Possible. India's GDP is still about 1/6 of China's, and GDP per capita is about 1/5. But of course we have no idea how China will handle its internal problems, which could prove its undoing.
chickelit said...
When French was the language of politics/nobility in the 16th and 17th centuries, what was the preferred currency? Was there even one?
That's my question stated another way. I don't know the answer. Florins? Guilders?
From 1780 on the most universally accepted throughout the world- and copied (counterfeited?) by other countries coin was the Maria Theresa Thaler. And Thaler is where dollar comes from.
Aside from that- gold was the universal currency, followed by silver.
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