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Have China’s hawks flown the cooperative?

Have China’s hawks flown the cooperative?

And now that China hawks dominate thinking on both sides when it comes to Sino-US relations, dive deep Host Ryan Lizza decided to talk to Max Baucus, who is one of the leading voices warning that the hawks have got things dangerously wrong. Baucus was the US ambassador to China from 2014 to 2017. Before that, depending on the year, he was either the chairman or a ranking member of the very powerful Senate Finance Committee. And in this riveting interview, he is surprisingly critical of both Republicans and Democrats for embroiling America's relationship with China to score political points…
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders attacks ‘left-wing culture war’ in response to SOTU

Sarah Huckabee Sanders attacks ‘left-wing culture war’ in response to SOTU

In one of her first acts as governor, Sanders drew national attention for a directive banning the term Latinx in all of Arkansas government. In her response Tuesday, Sanders also waded into culture war issues that have buoyed conservatives in the Biden years, criticizing “false idols” on the left and other conservative punching bags. "That's not normal. It's crazy and it's wrong,” she said. Huckabee also hit to the president for his stewardship of the economy and the Biden administration's handling of immigration policy. Those broadsides are not far removed from the portrayal of Biden and his fellow Democrats put…
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