Sunday, December 22

Tag: Politics/International Relations

Civil War Gaffe Undercuts Nikki Haley’s 2024 Pitch
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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Civil War Gaffe Undercuts Nikki Haley’s 2024 Pitch

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 10:24 am ETRepublican Nikki Haley, who until this week had run a disciplined and largely error-free presidential campaign, has been forced into an uncomfortable and unexpected new chore: doing cleanup on a blunder related to the Civil War and slavery.The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador was forced into defensive mode after she omitted slavery from an answer she gave at a New Hampshire campaign event where she was asked what prompted the Civil War. Her long-winded response avoided giving the answer to a basic question most learned in grade school, teeing up a barrage of criticism from political foes.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Israel Expands Operations in Southern Gaza Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis
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Israel Expands Operations in Southern Gaza Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis

Israeli forces expanded their military operations in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, intensifying efforts to kill Hamas’s top leadership, as aid agencies said the areas to which Israel has directed Palestinians to evacuate were increasingly overcrowded and short on resources.A Hamas political delegation was headed to Cairo on Friday to discuss a deal proposed by Egypt to end the war, a plan which neither side has agreed to so far, Egyptian officials said. Israel said negotiations on the deal, which would free hostages held by Hamas, were under way.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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2024 Presidential, Senate and House Election Forecasts
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2024 Presidential, Senate and House Election Forecasts

Control of the House, the Senate and the presidency are all up for grabs in the 2024 elections, a rare instance of Republicans and Democrats battling for all three levers of elected power in Washington.Below are the latest forecasts for each, rated on a scale from safely Democratic or Republican to tossup. This outlook is based on combined ratings from the Cook Political Report; Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales; and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The New Star on the Political Scene: The Chip Industry
29Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

The New Star on the Political Scene: The Chip Industry

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 12:06 am ETSemiconductors have played the starring role in state visits. Nvidia’s chief executive was feted by heads of state like a visiting dignitary. Government delegations have shuttled around the globe hobnobbing with chip makers. For an industry that suddenly finds itself as a geopolitical showpiece, the attention is a mixed bag.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The New Star on the Political Scene: The Chip Industry
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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The New Star on the Political Scene: The Chip Industry

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 12:06 am ETSemiconductors have played the starring role in state visits. Nvidia’s chief executive was feted by heads of state like a visiting dignitary. Government delegations have shuttled around the globe hobnobbing with chip makers. For an industry that suddenly finds itself as a geopolitical showpiece, the attention is a mixed bag.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The Nippon Steel Deal Is Good for America
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The Nippon Steel Deal Is Good for America

Democrats and Republicans alike are assailing Nippon Steel’s prospective purchase of U.S. Steel as a threat to national security. The complaints are misplaced. Essential to national security is economic competitiveness, which is strengthened by global connections such as inward foreign direct investment.A more competitive economy is better able to fund the military and ameliorate the inevitable guns-for-butter trade-offs. Consider the Cold War. Fast labor-productivity growth after World War II expanded America’s tax base to fund investments in defense, science and space exploration. America eventually won the Cold War largely because the Soviet empire couldn’t deliver the goods. The Berlin Wall fell in part because people behind the Iron Curtain yearned for Mercedes sedans rather than Tra...
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China Confronts a New Political Reality in Taiwan: No Friends
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China Confronts a New Political Reality in Taiwan: No Friends

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 12:08 am ETTAIPEI—A drawing of Taiwan at the presidential campaign headquarters of the island’s ruling party shows strikingly little concern for north and south. Instead, the island is shown turned on its side, with China and the Taiwan Strait conspicuously absent.The drawing reflects the worldview of the Democratic Progressive Party, which over the past eight years has sought to carve out an identity for the self-ruled island that is separate from mainland China. But it also represents a broader change in Taiwan that sits uneasily with Communist Party leaders 1,000 miles to the northwest in Beijing.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Nikki Haley Says ‘Of Course’ Civil War Was About Slavery, Following Criticism
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Nikki Haley Says ‘Of Course’ Civil War Was About Slavery, Following Criticism

Updated Dec. 28, 2023 7:38 pm ETRepublican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Thursday the Civil War was caused by a fight over slavery as she tried to tamp down a political uproar hours after she failed to mention it when asked about the conflict’s origins.“Of course the Civil War was about slavery, we know that, that’s the easy part of it,” she said on a Pulse of NH radio show. “I’m from the South. Of course you know it’s about slavery.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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