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COVID controls offer insight into China's surveillance network

According to the University of Virginia's Miller Center C. K. Yen Professor Aynne Kokas, Beijing's strict zero-COVID response to the pandemic played a big role in showing the rest of the world what surveillance in China is like, including targeting dissidents.
Aynne Kokas
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Hitting back at Trump, Biden gears up for more clashes with GOP

With their thin majority, House Republican leaders will have little room to distance themselves from any of their members, giving lawmakers with incendiary views outsize influence, said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
Russell Riley
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A good year for authoritarians?

The University of Virginia's Miller Center's Practitioner Senior Fellow Eric Edelman and Eliot Cohen review the situation in China, the prospects for U.S.-China relations (specifically concerning Taiwan), and the popular uprising and revolutionary situation in Iran.
Eric Edelman
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A struggle between democracy and tyranny

According to Eric Edelman, practitioner senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center,Zelensky didn’t hit a wrong note, and he embodied the Ukrainian people’s will to freedom on the floor of the U.S. Congress.
Eric Edelman