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The news coverage in the USA is a tale of two narratives. On the right-wing, pro-Trump media outlets like Fox News highlight how (before COVID) the Trump administration achieved record rates of employment (among everyone including African Americans), economic growth, forced the European Union to pay their way in NATO etc. Whereas the left-wing media outlets, like the Washington Post and the New York Times, are highly critical of Trump’s foreign policy, handling of #BLM and CO

Statues that have stood for more than a century are being pulled down. People are turning out in their thousands to rallies around the globe. The murder of George Floyd has started something of a movement. And yet in China hundreds of thousands of Uighurs are in re-education or forced labour camps; in Burma Rohingya are murdered, and their villages’ burnt; and about two thousands migrant labourers have died in Qatar building stadiums for the 2022 soccer world cup. Somehow we