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On November 16, Steve Bannon said that the Trump administration should launch investigations against political opponents and impanel a court martial.  Bannon is an influential figure in Trump world. He served as chief executive of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and as his chief strategist and senior counselor in 2017. Bannon made the remarks during an interview with Sean Spicer , former Trump White House Press Secretary and Communications Director in 2017.  When asked about Trump's pledge to exact retribution on his political opponents, Bannon said that it was not retribution, but “justice”. Steve Bannon speaking with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.  Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 “I think Mark Milley has to be recalled to active duty on the afternoon of the 20th [of January], and I think a military tribunal, a court martial, has t...

On February 11, I read an interview by Financial Times' Europe-China correspondent Yuan Yang with Yale University Professor Jing Tsu on the role of cultural understanding in the midst of the power conflict between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC).  "I think it’s very important to understand China from the inside," professor Tsu said. Recalling her reporting from the Beijing winter Olympics in February 2022 as NBC's cultural commentator, she remarked:  "Everyone wants to see China as totalitarian. I saw Chinese people: girls in hazmat suits posing for selfies. They see the machine; I see the cogs in the machine." I find these comments quite interesting, because they highlight a fundamental issue: how to talk about present-day China? From what perspective can we study and understand it? ___ " Old vs new, Shanghai Pudong " by  Lawrence Wang 王治钧  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 . _____ First of all, let me point out th...