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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Kyrsten Sinema Watch Party</strong> - With Democrats poised to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, their signature legislation on health care and climate change, all eyes were on the senior senator from Arizona. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-kyrsten-sinema-watch-party">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Kansas Abortion Referendum Has a Message for Democrats</strong> - In the run-up to November’s midterm elections, the Party has an opportunity to seize the mantle as the defender of long-established individual rights. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-kansas-abortion-referendum-has-a-message-for-democrats">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Provocative Politics of Nancy Pelosi’s Trip to Taiwan</strong> - What is the House Speaker’s high-profile visit really about? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-provocative-politics-of-nancy-pelosis-trip-to-taiwan">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Blueprinting the Kansas Abortion-Rights Victory</strong> - Pro-choice forces fought misdirection and marshalled enormous turnout. Can their success be replicated? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/blueprinting-the-kansas-abortion-rights-victory">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Trip to the Boundary Waters</strong> - A chronicler of urban Chicago seeks solace in Minnesota. Plus, Susan Orlean on Ivana Trump, and Jane Mayer on Ohio’s lurch to the right. How does a swing state go hard red? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/a-trip-to-the-boundary-waters">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>One Good Thing: A food memoir about love, grief, and lockdown</strong> -
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<em>The Year of Miracles</em> by Ella Risbridger. | Elisa Cunningham
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In The Year of Miracles, Ella Risbridger cooks through the end of the world.
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British journalist Ella Risbridger’s new food memoir <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-year-of-miracles-recipes-about-love-grief-growing-things/9781526622631"><em>The Year of Miracles</em></a> was not, she informs us in her first sentence, “meant to be” a book about grief. It was meant to be a cheerful little book about hosting dinner parties, a happy follow-up to Risbridger’s 2019 hit <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/24/18700812/midnight-chicken-ella-risbridger-review"><em>Midnight Chicken</em></a>, about how she cooked as a way of dealing with her depression. “But what can you do?” Risbridger goes on. Grief “gets into everything.”
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Part of the charm of <em>Midnight Chicken</em> was the way Risbridger conjured her lovely life onto the page: a life of quirky, cozy, bookish love with her partner the Tall Man (real name <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/irl/john-underwood-blogging-cancer-stages/">John Underwood</a>) in their Tiny Flat. It was marred only by the tragedy tucked away on the back page in the acknowledgments: In the time between Risbridger handing in her manuscript and <em>Midnight Chicken</em> coming out, Underwood had died of a rare form of lymphoma at age 29. (Risbridger gives Underwood, along with the rest of her friends, a pseudonym in <em>The Year of Miracles</em>. Here, he becomes Jim.)
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<em>The Year of Miracles</em> is Risbridger’s account of how she cooked her way through the ensuing grief. And because it is, ominously, set in 2020, she is grieving not just the loss of her partner, but also the loss of a whole way of pre-pandemic life.
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“This is supposed to be the year when the world, my world, starts again;” Risbridger writes as she first hears news of the pandemic. “This is not the year the world is supposed to end, because my world has already ended.”
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The world does not quite end, and Risbridger keeps cooking through it. She cooks Leftovers Pie for her new housemate, because she loves her; Crisis Cardamom Coffee Banana Bread, because everyone made banana bread at the start of lockdown; Turkish Eggs, because Jim would have hated them and he’s no longer there to object.
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It’s this last question, of what to do now that Jim is no longer here to make his objections known, that leads Risbridger to some of her most affecting passages. She spent years of her life as Jim’s caretaker, guiding him through chemotherapy and all its accompanying horrors, rendered “subservient, essentially, in a way no other adult relationship demands.” Now that Jim is no longer there, she has space to think through her own preferences, and to deal with the guilt and the horror surrounding that space.
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With her housemate, she invents “the Self-Esteem Finger: you hold up one finger, to indicate a desire that has no reference or recourse to anyone else, and you say ‘self-esteem!’” She stops making roast dinners, which Jim loved and she hated, and she indulges in meals with very little meat, such as the Turkish eggs in garlic yogurt.
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<img alt="A watercolor illustration shows a black-and-white cat walking below an outdoor metal staircase covered in flowerpots. In the background, a blooming cherry tree and a weeping willow stand against a blue sky while a yellow bird flies overhead. In the bottom right corner is printed the word “April.”" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/H3MqbdEOWQmUMWEYxseONCrLLoU=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23907760/April.jpg"/> <cite>Elisa Cunningham</cite>
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A chapter header from <em>The Year of Miracles</em>.
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You can successfully cook from these recipes, more or less. The rice bowl with Vietnamese flavors Risbridger has dubbed Coconut Pow comes out bright and sharp and sweet, although its many parts make it fiddly to put together unless, like Risbridger, you are already in the habit of keeping quick-pickled radishes and salted mango in your fridge. When I followed her recipe for cardamom buns, I found that she’d left out a few details about how to construct them, so that I couldn’t seal them properly and the spiced butter filling leaked out of the buns as they baked. They were still absurdly delicious.
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But the recipes here are more indicative of Risbridger’s personality than anything else. They are organized chronologically, with 12 chapters, one for each month of the year, and they are optimized specifically for the way she runs her personal kitchen. As such, she is always specifying the exact color and flakiness of the kind of sea salt you should use, but when a recipe calls for just plain table salt she tells you to pinch your flaky sea salt into dust, because she can never remember to keep plain table salt in stock.
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What you’re really reading for here is Risbridger’s sprightly, evocative prose, which is never more compelling than when she’s describing the sheer joy of her food. Roasted eggplants are “blistered and blackened and chewy and delectable;” fresh dukkah is “a beautiful sunset orange” that makes every salad “a riot;” soy-marinated eggs are “sticky” with “golden, liquid yolks.” Periodically, she peppers her instructions with bossy repetitions (“I do know your life, and you don’t need more flour”) and shameless confessions (“I have a weakness for adding leftover sour cream and chive dip, but I understand this is horrible”).
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Bouncing up against Risbridger’s prose are Elisa Cunningham’s whimsical watercolor illustrations, which range in elaborateness from two-page-spread tableaux of the neighbor’s cat in Risbridger’s fire escape garden to half a lemon rolling around the bottom margin of a recipe for parsnip purée. They are sweetly messy sketches, matching the sweetly messy energy of this home cook’s recipe book.
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And that, in the end, is what you read <em>The Year of Miracles</em> for: the sweetness and the mess. Cardamom buns that fall apart in the oven but are still buttery and rich with sugar and spices. An account of a life laced with grief that wasn’t supposed to be there, and a world that ends over and over and over again and manages to keep its beauty and its charm regardless.
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It’s what makes this cookbook-cum-memoir feel exuberant, unstoppable, and triumphantly on the side of love and life in the face of death and loss and grief.
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<a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-year-of-miracles-recipes-about-love-grief-growing-things/9781526622631">The Year of Miracles</a><em> is now out in bookstores. For more recommendations from the world of culture, check out the </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/one-good-thing"><em><strong>One Good Thing</strong></em></a><em> archives.</em>
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A Pro-China supporter tears a U.S. flag during a protest against Nancy Pelosi on Aug. 3, 2022. | Anthony Kwan/Getty Images
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The US-China relationship will continue to deteriorate.
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China took several aggressive actions this weekend after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, including firing ballistic missiles in Taiwan’s vicinity and sanctioning Pelosi. While the incident may not lead to all-out war, it’s a further step in the dissolution of the relationship between the US and China — and gives China’s military the training it needs to execute future attacks.
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Pelosi is <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/190c61ba-b018-46dc-9276-fff32321961b">the highest-ranking US official to visit Taiwan</a> since former Speaker Newt Gingrich went in 1997. In the 25 years since, China has grown both its economy and military exponentially. Along with that has come the nation’s desire — and increased capability — to lay claim to Taiwan. Taiwan, <a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-relations-tension-us-policy-biden?gclid=Cj0KCQjworiXBhDJARIsAMuzAuzHj0FsJ4hFWQ4x_tY5ZCgl8BUs8klz-R7KHf1kx7OvrS-CEYUPSAkaAs8IEALw_wcB">which governs itself independently of Beijing</a> and under current President Tsai Ing-wen, has increasingly chafed at Beijing’s tactics to “reunify” Taiwan with mainland China.
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Now, the US is hoping to avoid a diplomatic and possibly military crisis with China. The relationship between the two superpowers has rapidly deteriorated in recent years over a plethora of problems like <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22311356/china-uyghur-birthrate-sterilization-genocide">the abuse of Uyghur minorities in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/6/5/22520233/china-democracy-power-hong-kong-activist-tiananmen-square-vigil">crackdowns on pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong</a>, increased coordination between the US and Taiwan under the Trump administration, and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-sports-business-2020-tokyo-olympics-foreign-policy-817f522caca44af57a35e0e479a2fdc3">alleged espionage and hacking on the part of the Chinese government</a>.
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“There is much to object to in the Chinese behavior, but that said, there are many behaviors that the Chinese object to, that the various stakeholders in the US simply ignore and blow past, and perhaps do so at their peril,” Daniel Russel, vice president of international security and diplomacy at the Asia Institute told Vox.
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Previous administrations practiced “strategic ambiguity”— seeking to reassure Taiwan without inflaming China. In May, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/world/asia/biden-taiwan-china.html">Biden pledged</a> that the US would go above and beyond the support it’s already provided for Ukraine should China invade Taiwan, though members of his administration including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin insisted that Biden’s statement was in line with the One China policy — the official acknowledgement that the mainland is China and Beijing is the seat of power.
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Now, China is <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-05/china-warships-cross-taiwan-strait-in-sign-drills-continuing">conducting large-scale military exercises in the Taiwan Strait</a><strong>—</strong> reportedly firing 11 ballistic missiles in the island’s vicinity, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/suspected-drones-over-taiwan-cyber-attacks-after-pelosi-visit-2022-08-04/">Reuters reported Thursday.</a> That’s the first time China has made such a move since 1996 — showing how much has changed since the last time the US and China faced off over Taiwan.
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20 PLA aircraft (SU-30<em>10, J-16</em>4, J-11*4, Y-8 ASW and Y-20 Aerial Refueling) and 14 vessels conducted an air-sea operation on the surrounding area of R.O.C on August 6, 2022. Please check our official website for more information: <a href="https://t.co/Tj6C1y0WHR">https://t.co/Tj6C1y0WHR</a> <a href="https://t.co/apjMe6IYMn">pic.twitter.com/apjMe6IYMn</a>
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— 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. (<span class="citation" data-cites="MoNDefense">@MoNDefense</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/MoNDefense/status/1555888160273739781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2022</a>
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“[The Chinese military is] probably not even halfway through the various things that they have in mind,” Daniel Russel, vice president of international security and diplomacy at the Asia Institute told Vox. “I think it’s pretty clear that the Chinese are in the acting out phase, the retaliatory phase, as they characterize it, and they have no interest in being calmed down until they have completed this circuit of punitive measures.”
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The ultimate goal, at least when it comes to Taiwan is not necessarily a military takeover — China is not yet capable of that, Russel said. Instead, every crisis is calibrated “to force Taiwan, essentially, to its knees, to force the leadership of Taiwan to capitulate to the mainland’s terms for political negotiation.”
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<strong>China’s military might has grown considerably in the past three decades</strong>
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China has become more aggressive in defending what it sees as its interests in several arenas, including militarily in the South China Sea and with hostile crackdowns against pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong — both of which represent a threat to Taiwan’s democratic system.
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China claimed sovereignty over the South China Sea and several islands in the vicinity, including Taiwan, in <a href="https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/CHN_1992_Law.pdf">1992’s Law on the Territorial Sea</a>. That document also outlines the conditions under which military vessels and aircraft may enter into Chinese territory. Now, 30 years later, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has the means to enforce is sovereignty, and <a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R42784.pdf">has been doing so with increasingly provocative maritime action </a><a href="https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/territorial-disputes-south-china-sea#Concerns-1">including militarizing islands in the South China Sea</a>
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The US maintains that it has significant economic and security interests in the region and routinely conducts<a href="https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2904862/7th-fleet-destroyer-conducts-freedom-of-navigation-operation-in-south-china-sea/"> freedom of navigation </a><a href="https://www.cpf.navy.mil/News/Article/2969894/us-japan-australia-conduct-trilateral-naval-training-in-south-china-sea/">and other exercises there</a>, <a href="https://sites.tufts.edu/lawofthesea/chapter-three/">utilizing military sea and airpower to maintain the freedom of maritime areas</a>. The US also sells weapons systems to Taiwan for defensive purposes <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/2479/all-actions?overview=closed#tabs">per the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act</a>, but those capabilities just aren’t in proportion to what China’s military has produced over the past 25 years. Furthermore, as recently as last year both US and Taiwanese stakeholders expressed concern that Taiwan’s military suffered from low morale and readiness among reservists and conscripts. That’s due in part to a lack of funding and a disorganized reserve system, as well as the belief of many Taiwanese that the US will support their military should any major attack occur, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/taiwan-military-readiness-china-threat-us-defense-11635174187">a Wall Street Journal investigation</a> from last October.
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<a href="https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/how-should-the-u-s-respond-to-chinas-military-civil-fusion-strategy/">China’s military growth </a>is currently based on <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/What-is-MCF-One-Pager.pdf">civil-military integration</a>, which includes major investments in <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/Nov/03/2002885874/-1/-1/0/2021-CMPR-FINAL.PDF">tech </a>research and development and dual-purpose technology which aims to strengthen both the military and economy. That has resulted in significant weapons systems developments including the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/asia/china-missile-tests-exercises-intl-hnk-scli/index.html">so-called “carrier killer” missile</a> which can reportedly attack ships <a href="https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/df-21/">as large as contemporary US aircraft carriers</a>, thus potentially<a href="https://news.usni.org/2021/01/27/u-s-admiral-china-can-keep-pouring-money-into-anti-ship-ballistic-missiles"> deterring US warships from operating </a>in what China considers its own territory.
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The situation is a far cry from the 1995-1996 crisis in the Taiwan Strait, when a visit by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-taiwan-lee-obituary/taiwans-mr-democracy-lee-teng-hui-championed-island-defied-china-idUKKCN24V29C">Lee Teng-Hu</a>i, who would become Taiwan’s first democratically-elected president in 1996, to his alma mater Cornell University, sparked tensions between the US and China. China then deployed missiles and conducted military exercises in Taiwan’s vicinity, but the US was able to fend off those provocations by <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/06/during-the-last-taiwan-crisis-chinas-military-was-outmatched-by-us-forces-not-now.html">sending two aircraft carrier groups transiting through the Taiwan Strait</a>.
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Since suffering that humiliation, the Chinese government has pushed to create a military capable of facing — and beating — the US in a confrontation. What the People’s Liberation Army is missing is experience in the war zone, Russel told Vox. “They’re practicing, and that is not a good thing for us,” he said. “And it’s the sort of thing that directly remedies the biggest shortcoming of the People’s Liberation Army — namely, that unlike the US military, they haven’t spent the last 50 years at war.” Therefore, Pelosi’s visit was the perfect excuse to gain battlefield experience in the ideal context.
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“The Chinese are taking advantage of what they are billing as a provocation,” Russel said. “They’re taking advantage of this to practice things that, in normal circumstances, would be so provocative that they didn’t dare rehearse. So these are joint exercises that are, in effect, dry runs for a military action against Taiwan — whether it’s a blockade, or an attack of another sort.”
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“In terms of lowering the tension, rule number one: Don’t do anything that makes things worse,” Russel said. But that’s easier said than done when diplomatic relationships that would normally serve to diffuse such tensions are frayed as they are now. The White House summoned <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/05/us-summons-china-ambassador/">Chinese ambassador Qin Gang</a> on Friday to rebuke him for the military exercises; now, China’s has called of discussions on other critical topics and its military officials <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/05/pentagon-china-calls-taiwan-00050175">are not responding to the Pentagon’s overtures</a> — increasing the potential for accidents and misinterpretations to spiral out of control.
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“You’ve got a lot of US, PRC, and Taiwan assets moving around, in a relatively confined space. In the past there have been accidents where, maybe overzealous or inexperienced Chinese pilots have collided with US planes — even much more recently there have been many more examples of very risky maneuvers by Chinese pilots and Chinese ship captains,” Russel said. “So that danger is a real one, and what makes it dangerous is not that a US plane and a Chinese plane could get in an accident, but that US and China don’t have the mechanisms in place — the relationships, the dialogues, et cetera — that serve to block escalation, to prevent an incident from becoming a crisis, and a crisis leading to conflict.”
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A complicating factor seems to be Chinese President Xi Jinping’s need to show force to shore up his power ahead of China’s 20th Party Congress later this year, where major leadership changes will be announced. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-05/china-warships-cross-taiwan-strait-in-sign-drills-continuing">Michael Raska</a>, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, told Bloomberg that China’s exercises in the Taiwan Strait are “a show of force that solidifies Xi’s political power at home and paves way for his third-term re-election.”
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It’s also a distraction from the fact that “things are going to hell in a hand basket in Xi Jinping’s China,” Russel said. Between limits on technology use, <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/weibo-07152022105827.html">overbearing social control, and major economic issues</a> like a severe housing crisis, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/5/xi-tested-as-chinese-nationalists-bristle-at-pelosi-taiwan-visit">Chinese citizens are ridiculing</a> the government’s policies on <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/patriotic-fervour-erupts-chinese-social-media-over-pelosis-taiwan-visit-2022-08-03/">the social network Weibo</a> — giving Xi every reason to dial up the pressure on Taiwan and the US, Russel said.
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China also announced that <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-05/china-warships-cross-taiwan-strait-in-sign-drills-continuing">it would not continue talks with US officials on climate change</a>, one area where the US and China had willingly cooperated until Pelosi’s trip. “Each time there is an event that makes tensions between Washington and Beijing surge, as Nancy Pelosi‘s visit has done, [it] leaves the relationship, when it does calm down, that much worse,” Russel said, noting that Taiwan is not the only issue over which the US and China must negotiate.
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“It makes the prospects for of any kind of real progress — not negotiating the fate of Taiwan but the two major powers on planet Earth learning how to share the globe without blowing it up — makes that mission all the more difficult.”
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More than a year after beginning <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/7/21/22575946/senate-infrastructure-gamble-explained-bif">negotiations on the legislation,</a> Senate Democrats finally have all 50 of their members on board for a budget reconciliation bill that will fund several of President Joe Biden’s key priorities and give them policy wins on climate and health care ahead of the midterm elections.
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On Thursday, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/us/politics/sinema-inflation-reduction-act.html">Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)</a> signaled she would support the latest iteration of the legislation, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/7/28/23282217/climate-bill-health-care-drugs-inflation-reduction-act">known as the Inflation Reduction Act</a>, clearing its way for passage this weekend. Sinema, a longtime holdout on the bill, was the last lawmaker Democrats needed to get on board in the Senate <a href="https://www.vox.com/23281547/build-back-better-joe-manchin-inflation-reduction-act">after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)</a> said he was willing to move forward.
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The bill also mostly cleared its review by the Senate parliamentarian, a nonpartisan rules expert who determines whether the policies in the bill qualify for the reconciliation process Democrats want to use. She signed off on most of the provisions in it, meaning it can move forward in the reconciliation process that allows legislation to pass with just 51 votes — so no Republican support is needed.
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The next step toward Senate passage is a lengthy debate and amendment process known as the vote-a-rama, when any senator can propose additions to the bill, and force others to take uncomfortable votes. It could go on for a while, but the bill is still on track for passage this weekend.
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Although this legislation is only a fraction of what Democrats initially proposed when they started this process, it still includes substantial investments in <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/7/28/23281757/whats-in-climate-bill-inflation-reduction-act">climate</a> as well as major health care and tax proposals. All told, it’s expected to include more than $400 billion in spending<s></s>.
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Sinema’s backing for the bill came with some strings attached. She said in her statement of support that the legislation will no longer close the carried interest tax loophole, a change she has long opposed that would have taxed money managers’ income at the same rate as other income. That provision was replaced with a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks, which is expected to make up for the revenue that the carried interest provision brought in.
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Now that they have the parliamentarian’s guidance, lawmakers are updating the bill to take out the policies that didn’t pass muster.<s></s><a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/2/25/22299034/15-dollar-minimum-wage-senate-parliamentarian"><s></s></a><s></s>
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After Democrats settle on a finalized version with the parliamentarian’s signoff, they can then begin the voting process. They’ll first take a procedural vote late Saturday that kicks off 20 hours of debate on the bill, and then they’ll hold a process known as <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/vote-a-rama-is-the-price-dems-pay-to-avoid-the-filibuster.html">a vote-a-rama</a>, when any senator can suggest amendments to the legislation. Republicans are widely expected to use these amendments to put Democrats on the spot: Last year, for example, they forced Democrats to vote on issues where the party is divided, such as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/02/05/senate-harris-reconcilation-vote-a-rama/">packing the Supreme Court</a>.
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Once the vote-a-rama is completed, lawmakers can then move on to final passage of the bill, which could come as soon as Sunday. After the Senate approves the legislation, it heads to the House, which is expected to break from its August recess to vote on it later this month.
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Democrats also need most of their members on board in the lower chamber, where they could soon be down to a four-vote margin. Thus far, <a href="https://rollcall.com/2022/07/29/house-democrats-buttoning-up-budget-votes-as-they-await-senate/">some of the moderate members</a> who previously opposed the bill if it didn’t include a reinstatement of the state and local income tax (SALT) deduction, have signaled they are still willing to support the legislation, a sign that it’s likely to have the backing needed to pass. Additionally, progressive members, who’ve pushed back on pared-down policies in the past, have broadly expressed their support as well.
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“When they send it to us, we’ll pass it,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/72922-5">press conference last week</a>.
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The weekend’s best deals: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, 8BitDo gamepads, and more</strong> - Dealmaster also has discounts on the Apple Pencil, PS5 games, and Beats earbuds. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1871786">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Microsoft trackers run afoul of DuckDuckGo, get added to blocklist</strong> - Search privacy company still needs Bing, but won’t allow Microsoft’s trackers. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1871913">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Cyberattack on Albanian government suggests new Iranian aggression</strong> - Tehran-linked hack of a NATO member is a significant escalation. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1871914">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Fecal fountains: CDC warns of diarrheal outbreaks linked to poopy splash pads</strong> - Whatever you do, don’t get the water in your mouth. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1871935">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Formula E’s most successful racer shares his ideas on racing technology</strong> - After 8 years, 100 races, and nearly 1,000 points, Lucas di Grassi knows his stuff. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1871806">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>what do you call a pedophile-pirate?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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The first guy says “That looks like a deep hole.”<br/> The second guy says “That looks like a REALLY deep hole. Let’s check it out.” He picks up a small rock and throws it in. The rock goes Bang bang <sup>bang</sup> …. They agree. It is deep. They pick up a rock the size of a bowling ball and throw it in. The rock goes THUD Thud thud <sup>thud<sup>….</sup></sup>
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“Wow” says the first guy. The first guy and the second guy pick up an old railroad tie that is lying there and throw it in. The railroad tie goes SLAM Slam slam <sup>slam<sup>…</sup></sup> then a goat comes running past and jumps into the hole.
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… because she’d just put a picture of her dog. I sent her a message, something almost-clever like “your dog can ride in my pickup any time,” and she responded.
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We clicked pretty quickly, and started chatting regularly. Every day, sometimes throughout the day. Slowly we learned more about each other. Her dog’s name was Daisy. My truck’s name was Dodge Ram (I apologized for my lack of creativity). She was a CPA. I was a beekeeper.
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But, oddly, after all this time, neither of us had thought to send any pictures. Until one day I got a message from her: “I never thought I’d say this, but I really do want to meet you in person. I think we have a rare connection, and I don’t want to squander it. I want to send you my picture, and I want you to send me yours, but I’m telling you, I can never date a beekeeper.”
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