by Evelyn Wang | Dec 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON – The ongoing search for scapegoats to explain the surprise result of the presidential election has found a convenient one in the form of fake news. But it is impossible to tell how much fake news has affected the election results, said Kathleen Jamieson,...
by Evelyn Wang | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Former Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Bush administration National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley called for a new approach to the Middle East Wednesday – taking the lead from the countries and providing the...
by Evelyn Wang | Nov 30, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON – Reporters must rethink how they cover news if they want to succeed under the administration of Donald Trump. “This election was very disturbing for a lot of reasons, but it was very disturbing for the news media,” said journalist Marc Sandalow, the...
by Evelyn Wang | Nov 29, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – California’s political past could provide a peek into the nation’s political future, experts, politicians and journalists said on Tuesday, and could give a morale boost to Democrats smarting after Hillary Clinton’s loss on Nov. 8. Speaking at a political...
by Evelyn Wang | Nov 21, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Chinese citizens viewed the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election as an opportunity for China to increase its global power because they believe the president-elect will cause “chaos” in America, according to several China experts. But...
by Evelyn Wang | Nov 16, 2016 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Top fashion industry leaders said Wednesday that immigration policies will hurt their competitive capacity if they do not continue to allow robust legal immigration and protections for illegal immigrants because foreign-born entrepreneurs, creative talent...
by Evelyn Wang | Nov 14, 2016 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The year 2016 is a turning point for key issues of internet freedom, a report by watchdog organization Freedom House said Monday. Governments are now targeting messaging apps, said Freedom House’s Sanja Kelly at a panel hosted by Google....
by Evelyn Wang | Nov 7, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON – When it comes to connecting with millennial voters, “the most brilliant of all the candidates” in use of social media isn’t even on the ballot Tuesday. Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012 set the bar for excellence, says Emerson...
by Evelyn Wang | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The next president of the United States must make difficult decisions about further nuclear arms negotiations between the United States and Russia, an expert at the Brookings Institute said Monday. Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will take office...
by Evelyn Wang | Oct 18, 2016 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The recent hacks directed at state voting systems are not likely to influence the national election, a National Security Agency official said on Tuesday. “There’s a certain integrity in their (state) systems, simply because they’re not as richly...
by Evelyn Wang | Oct 10, 2016 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Increasing foreign investments and creating peace will be key to Myanmar’s economic development under its newly empowered NLD government, a policy adviser and former U.S. ambassador said Monday, but the country’s powerful military and resistance to...
by Evelyn Wang | Oct 4, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Journalists and partisans who rose at an ungodly hour Tuesday morning expecting Julian Assange to release a hyped data dump that could possibly damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign instead received a two-hour long Wikileaks commercial. Their only consolation...
