Argument
An expert’s point of view on a current event.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani The Untold Story of How Iran Botched the Coronavirus Pandemic
The government learned early on about the outbreak—but, from a combination of cynicism and ideology, decided not to do anything about it.
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A street hairdresser cuts the hair of a customer as he wears a protective facemask as prevention for the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in-front of a propaganda poster on a street in Beijing on February 26, 2020. China Is Trying to Rewrite The Present
Beijing’s propaganda blitz seeks to obscure the origins of the coronavirus.
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China's President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with US President Donald Trump before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019 BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) A War of Words With China Helps Nobody
This is no time for either Beijing or Washington to point fingers
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Medical workers wearing protective gear take samples from a driver with suspected symptoms of coronavirus at a test facility in Goyang, north of Seoul, on Feb. 29. Without Mass Testing, the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Keep Spreading
Countries such as South Korea that test thousands of people per day have slowed the outbreak. Other nations must adopt Seoul’s model before it’s too late.
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A Chinese laborer works in Sri Lanka. China’s Debt Diplomacy Will Get a Coronavirus Boost
The United States needs a generous policy—and a different leader—to counter Beijing.
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An empty Statuary Hall is seen at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on March 19, 2020. It’s Time for Congress to Go Remote
America’s politicians are older than ever—and dangerously vulnerable to the coronavirus as a result.
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Demonstrators protest against government bailouts of banks in front of the New York Stock Exchange, in New York City on Oct. 24, 2008. This Time, Can We Finally Turn a Financial Crisis Into an Opportunity?
Once again, markets are crashing and taxpayers are bailing out wealthy insiders. It's time we reform this perverse social contract.
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Law enforcement officers wearing face masks in Kazakhstan Central Asian States Can’t Hide the Coronavirus Any Longer
Authoritarian states have been downplaying numbers. That won’t last.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping Virus Competition Is Wrecking China-U.S. Cooperation Hopes
Coronavirus efforts are a new battlefront—and Beijing is the only one in the game.
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U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell Meanwhile, America’s Kosovo Strategy Is Melting Down
As the coronavirus pandemic raises tensions, the Trump administration’s strategy of bowing to Serbia’s authoritarian president is coming completely undone.
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People's Liberation Army soldiers China’s Military Claims to Be Virus-Free
Officially, not a single PLA soldier has been infected.
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Visitors to Luang Prabang town, Laos, a world heritage site, are drastically lower than usual Claims of a Coronavirus-Free Laos Are Probably Fiction
China’s poor rural neighbor says it has no cases. That’s unlikely to be true.
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Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok flashes the victory sign during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled Omar al-Bashir, in Khartoum on Dec. 25, 2019. Sudan Has a Window of Opportunity. The West Shouldn’t Squander It.
The country’s democratic transition is working, but without international support, it could fail.
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A man delivers an Amazon parcel in Paris Amazon Workers Struggle to Stay Safe as Company Swells
The delivery giant is likely to come out of the coronavirus crisis even more powerful.
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An Iranian woman walks past an anti-American mural on the wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran on May 8, 2018. Iran Knows Who to Blame for the Virus: America and Israel
The regime’s ideological army is spinning conspiracy theories even as it helps spread the virus among Iran’s long-suffering people.
