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The only woman from Iran to win an Olympic medal has defected from the country

  
Analysis, Politics
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Kimia Alizadeh issued a statement, accusing the government of Iran of “hypocrisy,” “injustice” and oppressing women while using them as political tools.

The Washington Post has more on the news here.
Alizadeh joins many others in defecting. I wonder how the news will be played in Iran, if at all? Protests have been triggered by the shooting down of the civilian airplane last week killing 176 people, many of them Iranians.
Kimia Alizadeh issued a statement, accusing the government of Iran of "hypocrisy," "injustice" and oppressing women while using them as political tools.

US has reached out to North Korea – Trump tells Kim Jong-un he wants to resume talks

  
Analysis, Politics

Comments from the White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien to US media (Axios)

  • “We’ve reached out to the North Koreans and let them know that we would like to continue the negotiations in Stockholm that were last undertaken in early October.
  • “We’ve been letting them know, through various channels, that we would like to get those [negotiations] back on track and to implement Chairman Kim’s commitment” to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Because the grovelling to NK has worked well so far.
Comments from the White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien to US media (Axios)

Weekend Taiwan election – A big win for Beijing-skeptic party

  
Analysis, Politics

Leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has locked in a second term.

Beating out the more China-friendly Kuomintang party (leader is Han Kuo-yu)
  • Tsai has 57%, securing the highest number of votes for any candidate since Taiwan’s first direct presidential election in 1996. DPP has maintained its majority in the parliament
  • Han on 39%
Tsai:
  • Today, I want to once again, call upon the Beijing authorities to remind them that peace, parity, democracy and dialogue are the key to positive interactions and long term sustainable development
  • China must abandon its threats of the use of force against Taiwan.
HK will be eyeing the result.
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