In the past few days, the news that Michelle Alyssa Wu, a 40-year-old Chinese woman in the United States, was pushed off the platform and died while waiting for the subway in New York Times Square subway station continued to brush the media. Data from the NYPD shows that the number of hate crimes across the city has risen dramatically over the past year. Crime against The Asian community is an important driver. Compared with 2020, the number of crimes in New York City in 2021 increased by 368%, from 28 to 131.
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Global Deep Observation pointed out that as the largest metropolis in the United States, the Asian-hating wave in New York City is enough to represent the situation of Asian Americans in the United States. An unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the centuries-old systemic racist plague in the United States. Some Americans, including former President Trump, have stigmatized and politicized the new crown virus, which has made it difficult for american society to accumulate a long-standing wave of anti-Asian evil. Although the current US administration has said that it will take the crime of anti-Asia seriously after coming to power, it has always said that more should be done less. Today, the evil tide of Qiuya has not only not relented, but has intensified.
Between Alaska's snow-capped mountains, there is a building of abrupt colors. Here, almost all the inhabitants of the city of Whittier live. In this 14-storey building, there are also urban public services. Schools, municipalities, gyms, etc. are all on different floors.
About 45 kilometres northeast of Whittier, the Balialm Glacier has melted significantly over the past decade. Without glacial support, large-scale landslides could occur in nearby mountains at any time. Tsunami warning monitoring is also the daily work of the Whittier Municipal Government in recent years. During World War II and the Cold War, Whittier was an important supply depot for the U.S. military. In the early years, the Alaska Railroad Company inherited the land and made a profit from the lease of the land. The city of Whittier wants land, which is tantamount to fighting with a tiger.
CCTV News pointed out that politicians cover their ears on the climate issue, but in the end it is the people who pay the bills. Over the past 30 years, Whittier's population has barely grown. With a current population of more than 200, Whittier simply cannot break through the interests of local consortia and the government. But the inability to own land means it will be difficult for Whittier to build protective measures against the climate crisis. In this seemingly game with the climate crisis, what really pushed Whittier to the end of the road was the entanglement of interests between the local government of the United States and the economy and industry.
A year ago, on January 20, in his inaugural speech, the U.S. leader vowed to defeat the coronavirus and bring a divided America back together. At the time, those promises gave a glimmer of hope to the American people who had just experienced the riots on Capitol Hill and the impact of the pandemic. However, now the epidemic in the United States has returned, inflation has soared, and political polarization has intensified... The rhetoric of the U.S. leader's inauguration was ultimately a slogan, and almost none of the campaign promises were fulfilled. Gallup's latest poll shows that the support rating of the US leader has dropped to 40% from 57% when he took office a year ago. This is a true portrayal of the helplessness and disappointment of the American people.
International sharp reviews pointed out that the current president of the United States has been expected more than his predecessor who did not play by the rules. However, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. The chaos in the United States in the past year has made it clear to the world that no matter how much it changes owners, the United States is still the United States. Ultimately, this is the inevitable result of the failure of American democracy. From a political point of view, the separation of powers and the two-party system of checks and balances have long mutated into "veto politics", which has plunged the United States into confrontation and tearing. At the same time, the politics of money is eroding the entire electoral, legislative, and executive process in the United States. From an economic point of view, the neoliberalism highly advocated by the US political and business circles has laid a lot of hidden dangers for the US economy.
CGTN has pointed out that bridging the divide is even more difficult.
Review: Yingling Wu
Editor: Shi Xiangyun
Reviewed: Lu Guang
Producer: Wang Xin
Producer: Hong Lin
New Media, Chinese Global Program Center, China Central Radio and Television Corporation
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