Wall Street Journal (November 13)
“South of the border, China is ascendant,” having successfully “capitalized on U.S. indifference in Latin America.” The world’s second most populous nation has now “replaced the U.S. as the dominant trading partner for most big economies, with the exceptions of Mexico and Colombia.” Beijing has also “signed up most of Latin America and the Caribbean to an infrastructure program that excludes the U.S.”
Tags: Ascendant, Big economies, Border, Capitalized, China, Colombia, Dominant, Indifference, Latin America, Mexico, Trading partner, U.S.
Washington Post (January 19)
“The challenge — and the opportunity — for Joe Biden is that he succeeds the worst president in U.S. history. Donald Trump’s tenure was characterized by colossal incompetence and mind-numbing indifference to the public good.” As a result, the new president will face the biggest challenges since Franklin D. Roosevelt. “Paradoxically, by taking over at such a low point in our history, Biden is set up for success” and his approval rating is already “higher than Trump’s ever was.”
Tags: Biden, Challenge, Incompetence, Indifference, Opportunity, Public good, Roosevelt, Success, Trump, Worst
New York Times (February 26)
“Japan can’t handle the coronavirus. Can it host the Olympics?” The nation’s leaders have a “sense of entitlement.” This “breeds indifference and incompetence,” which was on full display during “by the unmitigated epidemiological and public relations disaster that was the saga of the Diamond Princess cruise ship.”
Tags: Coronavirus, Diamond Princess, Disaster, Entitlement, Incompetence, Indifference, Japan, Leaders, Olympics
New York Times (March 6)
“President Trump had no evidence on Saturday morning when he smeared his predecessor, President Barack Obama…. Just contemplate the recklessness — the sheer indifference to truth and the moral authority of the American presidency — revealed here: one president baselessly charging criminality by another, all in a childish Twitter rampage.”
Tags: Childish, Evidence, Indifference, Moral authority, Obama, Rampage, Recklessness, Smear, Trump, Truth, Twitter, U.S.Baseless
