[Link] U.S. Boycotted Olympics Before, and It Didn’t End Well

Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com

The U.S. is staging a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China’s human rights abuses of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. The full effect remains to be seen.

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[Link] JPMorgan CEO Joked About Outlasting China’s Communist Party. The Fun Didn’t Last Long.

Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com

America’s most powerful banker has had his fair share of controversial opinions, but rarely has he walked back something as quickly as he did after he joked about the world’s second-most powerful country.

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