- China won, yesterday morning, the gold medal in the tennis single women's competition. It looks like China will give a surprise in the Olympics and the Global Times is writing about it in today's editorial https://shorturl.at/YUnUO. Breakthroughs in the Olympics are considered and viewed by the Global Times as evidence of China's new national strength. What's more, the editorial board makes the case about how the situation in the olympics could be seen as a reflection of what's going on in broader scenarios where China has just arrived to be counted into the top countries. China has arrived and will stay.
- On the other hand, there have been rumors since yesterday night that Iran will retaliate as soon as Monday morning https://cl.gy/iamGx. Based on Axios published scoop, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is trying to persuade Iran to soften its retaliation after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas chief political leader and negotiator with Israel. Axios also reported U.S. Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla was sent to the region in order to prepare for retaliatory actions. Global Times https://cl.gy/jpVuc reporting about the situation in the middle east says retaliation is expected to be bigger and stronger than the one occured in April this year. Blatant provocation was the term used to refer to Israeli actions in Tehran last week. Sending troops only adds fuels to the fire, based on a source consulted by the Global Times.
- Judge Napolitano has interviewed former diplomat Alastair Crooke, who commented on how outrageous for Iran was the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh by Israel on Iranian soil https://cl.gy/oCdHA. Haniyeh was conducting an official visit in the context of the inauguration of the new president of the Islamic Republic of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian, who is considered not a radical. Crooke emphasizes how strong divisions inside Israel society could lead to a full scale war in the Middle East. New developments are expected in the region including the launching of missiles from Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. Russia has also sent the head of Security Council, Sergei Shoigu to Tehran but, based on Crook's interview is not known what is his purpose.
- Salomón Kalmanovitz escribe hoy una columna en El Espectador criticando, una vez más, la política económica del gobierno Petro https://cl.gy/YDQIN. La crítica hoy tiene que ver con un exceso de prudencia por parte del gobierno que ha llevado, según Kalmanovitz, a una falta de inversión de la administración nacional en obras públicas que podría aportar a reducir el desempleo que alcanza hoy el 10.2%. En los comentarios a la columna se pueden leer opiniones de lectores que critican al autor por una exagerada animadversión contra el gobierno Petro, pues claramente su comportamiento macroeconómico no ha sido el que tradicionalmente se le critica a los gobiernos de izquierda: gasto y endeudamiento fuera de control. Sin embargo, para Kalmanovitz no es suficiente.
Brief summary of the most recent press coverage from my standpoint. The election of Donald Trump as new president of the United States is still sending waves of reactions around most of media outlets. In the colombian outlet El Tiempo historian Eduardo Posada Carbó wrote an opinion colum on October 31st called "Fears without Hopes" that commented on the last two numbers of the outlet The Atlantic, which promotes views that are friendly to the ones of the Democratic Party and opposed to the so called MAGA movement. The outlet officially endorsed Kamala Harris campaing in november and ran a quite sinister cover in October that, according to Posada Carbó, refers to Trump. Then, the historian went on again on November 7th with the colum Democracy, in problems where without tackling specifically the elections in USA, handles the topic of how disenchantment with democracy as a political system is spreading around the world opening the doors for figures such as Trump. The New ...
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