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U.K’s Johnson Wins Confidence Vote With 211 Tory MP Support

6Jun

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U.K’s Johnson Wins Confidence Vote With 211 Tory MP Support

June 6, 2022--While 148 Conservatives vote to oust British Prime Minister Boris Johnson from his leadership role today, 211 Tory MPs voted to keep him. "I think it's a convincing result, a decisive result," Johnson said in a media interview after the vote. "Of course, I understand what we need to do now is come together as a government and as a party, and that is exactly what we can now do." The vote of 59 percent support for Johnson is less than the 63 percent support than former Prime Minister Theresa May received just six months before she resigned over a stalemate on Brexit, the BBC reported today. The action came as a result of a request for a no-confidence vote by at least 15 percent of Conservative MPs.

6Jun

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SNAPSHOT: UK-China Trade

June 7, 2022—Trade in goods and services between China and the United Kingdom remained strong in 2021, with $79 billion in goods (£63.6 billion) from China reaching the U.K. and $23.6 billion in goods (£18.8 billion) flowing the other direction. The U.K. Office of National Statistics released the data this week. The figures include trade in services.

Germany Boosts Defense Spending, Sends Air-Defense Weapons To Ukraine

1Jun

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Germany Boosts Defense Spending, Sends Air-Defense Weapons To Ukraine

June 1, 2022-German increasing its defense spending above 2 percent of its GDP and is shipping air defense weapons to Ukraine. That spending is up from 1.4 percent of GDP in 2020. Russia's war against Ukraine marked a turning point for Europe, and German is at the heart of the political and economic changes. "This is imperialism, which we in Europe won't accept," German chancellor Olaf Scholz said today of Russia's war. He delivered a speech to the German parliament's lower chamber. (Source: Reuters and AFP via DW)

U.S. Ramps Up Case Against China on Virus Outbreak, Cover-Up

7May

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Globalization, Disintegration, Organizations, IMF, WTO, G7, UN Security Council, Types of News: Bit

U.S. Ramps Up Case Against China on Virus Outbreak, Cover-Up

May 7, 2020—With the key question unresolved about how the COVID-19 virus emerged in Wuhan, China, diplomatic relations between China and the United States as well as other Western governments have ruptured, perhaps permanently. Funding Pulled The U.S. government stopped funding a line of research funding that fostered collaboration between U.S. scientists and those in Wuhan, China. The National Institutes of Health research project received $3.38 million over six years. It was a small part of its overall budget. (For perspective, in 2019, total NIH awards/grants were $28 billion.) But it was still a lot in terms of funding. The project proposed to understand the risk of bat coronavirus that poses "a significant threat to global health and food security." It came in the wake o...

Pro-Democracy Movement In The 2019 Hong Kong Elections

29Sep

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Communism, Dictatorship, Democracy, Political Systems, Domestic Politics, Types of News: Bit

Pro-Democracy Movement In The 2019 Hong Kong Elections

November 25, 2019—In the first six months of increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong, the pro-democracy candidates made significant gains in the district council elections. They won 347 of the 452 seats -- nearly 77 percent -- of the city's district council. Meanwhile, pro-establishment candidates won 60 seats, leaving 45 seats to independents. (South China Morning Post. , Nov. 25, 2019) The protests started in response to an extradition bill that would have allowed mainland China to capture and try Hong Kong residents. UPDATE: Over time, however, the island nation would succumb to the Chinese Communist Party's rule.