On January 1st of this year, The Global Times — that’s an English language Chinese propaganda outlet — reported that eight people had been arrested for spreading “rumors” about a pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan in China. Those rumors were shared by eight physicians. They described the illness on WeChat, a Chinese social media app. Now, […]

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is in only his second year as a U.S. senator and, at 40, he is the youngest member of “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” but none of that keeps him from having a high profile in Washington—and in Beijing. The latest illustration of Hawley’s impact is a tweet he circulated March […]