Ian Goodrum
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ian Goodrum
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World
With latest Five-Year Plan, China takes bold step into 2022—and beyond
December 29, 2021All the GDP growth in the world won’t matter, the government says, if people aren’t living happier, healthier, longer, and more dignified lives.
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Opinion
U.S. ‘democracy summit’ a master class in hypocrisy
December 8, 2021Just like “freedom” and “human rights,” we can count “democracy” as another term that’s lost all meaning after years of being trotted out by the government that cares about it the least.
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Opinion
How U.S. media got China’s history resolution — and everything else — wrong
November 29, 2021Even before the sixth plenary session of the Communist Party of China’s 19th Central Committee had begun, media outlets in the U.S. had their takes at the ready.
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Opinion
U.S. media finds its voice—to bay for blood over Afghanistan
August 31, 2021The press has finally gotten over its love affair with Joe Biden for not being Donald Trump.
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Opinion
To find Capitol perpetrators, U.S. ruling class should look in the mirror
January 11, 2021The hordes who attacked Congress are the people who jeered students attending integrated schools. They’re the people who formed lynch mobs. This is an old, abiding hatred with a fresh coat of paint.
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Opinion
Don’t trust China’s COVID-19 science? Try surviving without it
October 26, 2020You don’t need to look too far to see how essential China's methods are; the U.S. steadfastly ignored China’s blueprint and now has more cases and deaths than anywhere else.
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Opinion
TikTok – Trump’s anti-China tech war is a protection racket for U.S. capital
August 7, 2020Microsoft or some other oligarch gets one of the world’s top social media sites for peanuts, and a Chinese competitor gets choked out of the U.S. entirely. It’s a protection racket on an international scale.
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News
Op-Ed: Trump’s closure of China’s Houston consulate a desperate, boneheaded move
July 24, 2020With outright blaming China for the pandemic proving to be a dud, the U.S. government is ratcheting up tensions in other ways.
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