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‘Training the XPCC risked complicity in Beijing’s atrocities against Uyghurs and other ethno-religious minorities,’ foreign policy expert says L: Xi Jinping (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images) R: Harvard University (Scott Eisen/Getty Images) Harvard University quietly trained members of a Chinese “paramilitary organization” on two occasions after the U.S. government sanctioned the group for its role

Apologies if this newsletter seems incoherent. Midway through writing it, I took a break, wandered out to the pool, sank into a lounge chair, and fell asleep. What could possibly go wrong? A lot, it turns out. Our Andrew Stiles reviews Chris Whipple’s Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest

It’s always been allowed, and always will be,To introduce new words, fresh from the mint,Just as in forests in the changing yearNew leaves come in and the oldest drop away,And the new ones bloom and prosper in their time. —Horace, “The Art of Poetry” Change, relentless change, is the keynote of language. A young person

REVIEW: ”Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History’ by Chris Whipple Getty Images The amount of effort that went into helping Joe Biden prepare for the CNN debate on June 27, 2024, is farcical in retrospect. Hell, it was farcical at the time. The campaign built a

In a hole in the ground there lived some hobbits—not a nasty, dirty, wet hole. Silicon Valley isn’t known for those. But a respectable place in a respectable town—and yet, somehow, these hobbits ended up going out on a great adventure. They may have lost the neighbors’ respect, but they gained…well, you will see whether

An unhappy marriage: Radical Islam and communism “are strange bedfellows,” writes the Hudson Institute’s Mike Watson. “Nonetheless, across much of Asia, an increasing number of countries are welcoming both,” as this week’s jihadist attack in Kashmir makes clear. “Pakistan is the classic example of this nexus,” Watson writes. “Its intelligence services allegedly supported the Taliban

As India mourns the dozens of tourists murdered in Kashmir this week by jihadists and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vows to pursue them and their backers “to the ends of the earth,” India and Pakistan are at daggers drawn. New Delhi has already closed the land border and suspended a key water-sharing agreement, and the