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Why Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit is making China angry

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taiwan on an Air Force passenger jet Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China

The Independent UK

Editorial: Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit an important stand for democratic values at home and abroad

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to visit Taiwan on Tuesday was controversial and courageous, an important gesture in support of democracy and a rebuke of authoritarian threats from Beijing.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: NC Democrats are undermining democracy with Green Party attack

Monday was a huge win for the North Carolina Green Party. After the party was removed from the ballot in 2021, conducted a petition effort to return and filed a First Amendment rights lawsuit, the leftist third party was unanimously certified by the North Carolina Board of Elections Monday morning.…

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MyPillow chief spends tens of millions in fresh crusade to push Trump’s big lie

Mike Lindell says he has poured up to $40m into wave of lawsuits and a new movie as US experts warn of threat to democracy

The Guardian - US

After Taiwan, Pelosi in S. Korea to meet political leaders

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will meet top South Korean political leaders in Seoul after she concluded her high-profile visit to Taiwan by renewing Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to defending democracy on the self-governing island despite vehement protests from China

The Independent UK

Trump's pandora's box: Election-denying candidates are refusing to concede

"It's exceedingly dangerous, because a democracy depends on losers’ consent."

Axios

‘Better for democracy’: Two US cities offer Arabic voting ballots

Advocates say expanding language access to all voters improves the political process by enabling greater participation.

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Pro-Israel AIPAC sunk Jewish progressive

The dark money group's efforts "have nothing to do" with Israel, says Sen. Bernie Sanders

Salon

Why the Jan. 6 hearings should be making corporations nervous

The world is watching the Jan. 6 hearings in the United States in dismay and contemplating the possible end of the American democratic experiment.

The Conversation

China's Red Army to surround Taiwan and carry out drills after Nancy Pelosi's visit

Nancy Pelosi's trip so enraged mainland China that the country’s most popular social media platform, Weibo, crashed for about 30 minutes, confirming it was overstretched

Daily Mirror

Asean 'deeply disappointed' over Myanmar execution of activists

Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Wednesday extensively discussed Myanmar, with Cambodia, this year's chair of the 10-nation bloc, saying that all member states are "deeply disappointed" over its military regime's recent execution of pro-democracy activists.

Bangkok Post

Pelosi: will not abandon commitment to Taiwan

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meeting leaders in Taiwan despite warnings from China, said Wednesday that she and other members of Congress in a visiting delegation are showing they will not abandon their commitment to the self-governing island."Today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy," she said in…

Evening Standard

American media wants to save democracy. Is it helping?

Earlier this year, the editors of the Journal of Democracy decided it was time for their no-frills intellectual magazine, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, to start publishing online.

Los Angeles Times

The Northern Agenda: A new home for your leftovers

Town halls across the North told to collect food waste separately from other rubbish

Manchester Evening News

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Bangkok Post

Myanmar crisis to dominate Asean foreign ministers meeting

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) member states are working to come up with additional steps or adjustments to measures dealing with Myanmar, which has been ruled by the military since a coup in February 2021, following the junta's execution of four people including two pro-democracy activists late last month.

The Guardian - UK

Two films duel for last word on brutal Marcos Sr era in Philippines

Katips: The Movie tells story of those who fought for democracy while Maid in Malacañang offers view pushed by Marcos dynasty

Asharq Al-Awsat

Pelosi Lauds Taiwan, Says China’s Fury Cannot Stop Visits by World Leaders

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi left Taiwan on Wednesday after touting its democracy and pledging American solidarity during her brief visit, adding that Chinese anger cannot stop world leaders from travelling to the self-ruled island claimed by Beijing. China demonstrated its outrage over the highest-level US visit to…

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the U.S. will not abandon Taiwan as China protests

Pelosi's trip has heightened U.S.-China tensions more than visits by other members of Congress because of her high-level position as leader of the House of Representatives.

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The Independent UK

Pelosi says US will not abandon Taiwan as China protests

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she and other members of Congress visiting Taiwan are showing they will not abandon their commitment to the self-governing island

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Why Pelosi went to Taiwan, and why China's angry

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taiwan on an Air Force passenger jet Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China

The Conversation

Less leadership, more democracy: lessons from a craft brewer's management crisis

Craft beer brewing was born back in the 1980s, and while the start was slow, it’s since become a big business. One of the success stories is Scotland’s BrewDog, which was founded in 2007 by James Watt and Martin Dickie. Fifteen years after they pulled their first pint, BrewDog has…

The Guardian - US

Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan trip puts US analysts and Democrats on edge

Experts and officials raise concern over timing of trip even as Republicans hail House speaker

Reuters

U.S. must remember vow to support Taiwan, Pelosi says in Washington Post

The United States must remember its vow "to support the defense of Taiwan" as its democracy remains "under threat" from China, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a Washington Post opinion piece published on Tuesday, moments after she arrived in Taiwan on a visit that risks bringing relations between…

Los Angeles Times

America’s allies are watching the Jan. 6 hearings. They are worried about US democracy

WASHINGTON — Three European diplomats opened the door to the ambassador’s residence and offered up a Cognac and a request for anonymity.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: How building bonds with our neighbors can help sustain our democracy

At the end of February 2020, I was scheduled to fly from my home in Brooklyn to play three concerts in the Pacific Northwest. I was glued to news reports of a new type of virus rapidly spreading in Seattle. I read about the outbreak in an assisted living home…

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