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Weekly News Magazine: The Chinese government’s phony anti-poverty plan The Chinese government’s phony anti-poverty plan At this month’s National People’s Congress (NPC), Chinese Premier Le Keqiang boasted that the central government would increase its poverty alleviation budget by 43.4 percent this year and lift at least 10 million people out of poverty by year’s end a…

Weekly News Magazine: Overthrow by pragmatism: Obama’s Cuban strategy Overthrow by pragmatism: Obama’s Cuban strategy Every president needs a doctrine. Now the sensible approach here would be to see the need for a doctrine the way an ardent feminist might see the usefulness of a man. As Irina Dunn claimed (an aphorism commonly attributed to Gloria Steinem), “A woman…

Weekly News Magazine: The Islamic State’s lone-wolf era is over The Islamic State’s lone-wolf era is over The Brussels bombings have made it plain that the scale of the threat posed by the Islamic State to the West is far larger than most Westerners had previously thought. That threat is no longer limited to the radicalization of the approximately 5,000 European…