Woman who trespassed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort deported to China

A Chinese businesswoman convicted of trespassing at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents has been deported, federal authorities said, more than two years after serving her sentence. Yujing Zhang was turned over to immigration officials in December 2019 after serving an eight-month sentence for trespassing at Trump’s resort in March that year. But she was held at the Glades County Detention Center for three times as long as her prison term mainly because of deportation delays during the Covid-19 pandemic, immigration authorities told the Miami Herald.…

How Republicans Can Replay the Reagan Era

For a long time, longer than I’ve held this job, my advice to Republican politicians and policymakers has been consistent: It isn’t the 1970s or 1980s anymore. The ideas associated with Ronald Reagan’s ascent to power, forged in an era of Cold War and high crime rates, stagflation and sexual revolution, were responses to crises and challenges decades in the past, and the G.O.P. was doomed to cycles of failure until it devised an agenda more fitted to the times. The year 2021, though, is the first time a reasonable…

Peng Shuai: Chinese tennis star ‘deserves to be heard’ on sexual assault claims – WTA

Peng Shuai is a former world number one doubles player and reached 14th in the singles rankings in 2011 Chinese player Peng Shuai deserves “to be heard, not censored” after publicly accusing the country’s former vice-premier of sexual assault, says the Women’s Tennis Association. In a post on Chinese social media site Weibo, Peng said she was “forced” into a sexual relationship with Zhang Gaoli. “The events concerning Peng Shuai are of deep concern,” said the WTA. “The allegations must be investigated fully, fairly, transparently and without censorship.” Peng, 35,…

From Nicaragua to China, reckless autocrats betray the promises of revolution

Do revolutions always end in betrayal? Sudanese citizens are but the latest group to see a democratic dawn blotted out by the forces of reaction. It’s an age-old story. Napoleon subverted the French Revolution, imposing an imperium where freedom briefly reigned. Stalin purloined the power of the proletariat to build a totalitarian dictatorship. From southern Africa to Cuba to Myanmar, today’s ruling heirs to revolutionary political struggle dishonour their inheritance. European peoples who joyfully cast off the Soviet yoke watch liberties erode anew. The Arab spring swiftly wilted. The 1776…