February 2020

#342 2/29   Christine Mei  The Letter that the Wall Street Journal did not Publish
 I wrote the letter below and sent it to the Wall Street Journal on 2/5/20 after the Journal published an article entitled “ China is the Real Sick Man of Asia” on its opinion page on 2/3/20. I am appalled by the title of Walter Russell Mead’s Feb. 3 article — “China is the Real Sick Man of Asia” — regarding the impact of the coronavirus on China and the...
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​#342 2/29   Dr. Wordman  What Have We Learned from Coronavirus? A Lot!
​ The coronavirus (2019-nCoV, CV in short in this article) discovered in Wuhan City of 14 million people is a new virus causing over one thousand death and spreading with RO (basic reproductive number of infectious case) greater than 2 but the scientists are closing in on precisely identifying it, discovering curing medicine and developing vaccine preventing it to become epidemic or to reoccur....
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The Letter that the Wall Street Journal did not Publish
 I wrote the letter below and sent it to the Wall Street Journal on 2/5/20 after the Journal published an article entitled “ China is the Real Sick Man of Asia” on its opinion page on 2/3/20. I am appalled by the title of Walter Russell Mead’s Feb. 3 article — “China is the Real Sick Man of Asia” — regarding the impact of the coronavirus on China and the...
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What Have We Learned from Coronavirus? A Lot!
​ The coronavirus (2019-nCoV, CV in short in this article) discovered in Wuhan City of 14 million people is a new virus causing over one thousand death and spreading with RO (basic reproductive number of infectious case) greater than 2 but the scientists are closing in on precisely identifying it, discovering curing medicine and developing vaccine preventing it to become epidemic or to reoccur....
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#341  2/22   ​Dr. Wordman  What NY Times Morning News Brief after The Impeachment Tells US?
​ The Impeachment of President Trump was over on February 5th with 52:48 and 53:47 acquitted Trump as not guilty on charges of abusing power and obstruction of justice (Congress). From the NY Times news briefing on February 6, one gets a feeling that the Impeachment is over and the attention is focused on the Democratic caucuses with an issue of bringing to an end of endless wars overseas. In...
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What NY Times Morning News Brief after The Impeachment Tells US?
​ The Impeachment of President Trump was over on February 5th with 52:48 and 53:47 acquitted Trump as not guilty on charges of abusing power and obstruction of justice (Congress). From the NY Times news briefing on February 6, one gets a feeling that the Impeachment is over and the attention is focused on the Democratic caucuses with an issue of bringing to an end of endless wars overseas. In...
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#339  2/8    Dr. Wordman  Bloomberg’s Chance in Presidential Bid
 The U.S. presidential bid started with 31 candidates counting Donald Trump the incumbent. The early round of campaign and fund raising filtered out half of the contenders quickly. The Democratic Caucasus and initial debates conditioned on sufficient fund raising support and decent voter opinion poll left six Democrats in the Jan. 14, 2020 Iowa debate hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register...
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#338  2/1     Dr. Wordman  Facing the U.S. - China Competition - Suggestion of 3 ‘S’ Strategy for Success
 The US-China Relation is at the lowest point since the U.S. recognized the People’s Republic of China as the only China representing the Chinese people and her sovereignty in 1979. The current trade war initiated by the U.S. against China is fermenting the US-China relation into a hot bed for hostile competition short of declaring each other as enemy. On the whole, the U.S. is the initiator of...
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