CGTN: Amid ice-cold relations, top U.S. and Russian leaders talk of Ukraine

A signature of Red Square In my latest editorial for CGTN, I examine the hand U.S. officials are attempting to play as they try to diffuse the dangerous situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border. When Blinken on Friday met Lavrov for high-level talks designed to find some way out of the crisis around Ukraine, the rather …

CGTN: This is not what Biden’s supporters expected; it might only get worse

Photo: Anthony Moretti 19Jan2017 In my latest editorial for CGTN, I explore why Joe Biden's first year as president has been awful. And it might not get better anytime soon. The experienced Biden – with decades in the Senate and eight years as Barack Obama's vice president – seemed a guarantee in an otherwise chaotic …

CGTN: Hypocrites begin to queue for a diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics

In my latest editorial for CGTN, I discuss why a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics is inevitable, and hypocritical. They somehow believe they will be missed as thousands of athletes compete in the world's most important global sports event, the Olympics. Worse, they appear to sincerely believe that not traveling to Beijing will …

Almost heaven

At this point a certain senator ought to change parties. There's little question West Virginia's Joe Manchin has put himself over his party. In doing so, he has neutered the Democrats' opportunity to advance the agenda necessary for the country. Sen. Manchin's self-centered approach also furthers the idea -- held domestically and internationally -- that …

CGTN: Behind the numbers discussed at the Global Covid-19 Summit

In my latest editorial for CGTN, I remind readers to look beyond the numbers promised by President Biden. U.S. President Joe Biden announced at a global gathering on coronavirus that the United States will purchase 1 billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine with the guarantee that every dose will be used to vaccinate people in …

China Focus: The lesson about the Trump/Milley debate

Photo: Anthony Moretti 6Jan2018 In my latest editorial for China Focus, I look at the broader issue in the recent claims made by two American authors about Donald Trump and possible war with China. That is the lesson in all of this: the depth of hate that has infected Americans’ thinking about China. To list …

CGTN: How a “righteous strike” became a “horrible mistake”

In my latest editorial for CGTN, I look at how the U.S. military adjusted its rhetoric from a "righteous strike" to a "horrible mistake" in describing a drone strike in Afghanistan. Of course, there will be investigations in Washington. Republicans will attempt to blame President Joe Biden for failed leadership, while Democrats will suggest in …

Facebook is revolting

The Wall Street Journal reveals the complete failure of leadership at Facebook. Facebook treats harm in developing countries as “simply the cost of doing business” in those places, said Brian Boland, a former Facebook vice president who oversaw partnerships with internet providers in Africa and Asia before resigning at the end of last year. Facebook …

Trump should be proud

I replied to a tweet tonight, and that's when it hit me. Donald Trump's idiotic policies relating to coronavirus set back the United States. And Joe Biden is hamstrung because of it. Trump held the science and medical communities in such low regard that America wobbled out of the first wave of coronavirus later and …