July | 2020 | Watching America

Argentina: Hiroshima

Robin Koerner - July 31, 2020. Published in Página 12

Hiroshima should serve as an example; civilized nations should never again be attacked with such viciousness and irresponsibility.

Australia: America’s Voting System To Face Its Reckoning in November

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 31, 2020. Published in Sydney Morning Herald

China: The West’s Undisguised Double Standards

Robin Koerner - July 31, 2020. Published in Huanqiu

Fanatically and violently pursuing 'freedom' will only breed social tumors, and is useless for the governance of Hong Kong.

Qatar: Senate Republican Plan Is Too Little and Far Too Late

Robin Koerner - July 31, 2020. Published in The Gulf Times

There is nothing more important to people’s lives and livelihoods than corralling the novel coronavirus. Now is not the time for parsimony.

Malta: The US COVID-19 Response Is Evidence of the Price of Failure

Robin Koerner - July 31, 2020. Published in The Times of Malta

It is almost as if U.S. leadership has abandoned science for partisan politics.

Greece: Trump and Tsipras Share a Lesson

Robin Koerner - July 31, 2020. Published in Ekathimerini

You can only play the anti-systemic card once. The second time is a bust. Two very different politicians, Donald Trump and Alexis Tsipras, have been learning this the hard way.

Finland: Trump Will Not Gain an Economic Advantage in the Fall Election

Robin Koerner - July 31, 2020. Published in Helsingin Sanomat

Donald Trump played a downtrodden and impoverished state by downplaying the pandemic in the spring and putting pressure on states to open up their economies so that economic growth figures would be favorable to him during the election.

Australia: The Ascent of Scott Morrison, from Trump’s Mini-Me to National Leader

Robin Koerner - July 31, 2020. Published in Sydney Morning Herald

Instead of a divisive populist avoiding real crises while fomenting fake ones, we saw a unifying leader confronting the disaster.

Mexico: If It’s Goya, Don’t Throw More Fuel on the Fire!

Tom Walker - July 31, 2020. Published in El Mexicano

[B]oycotts should only be used in exceptional circumstances, in the face of crimes against humanity or gross violations of human rights.

Russia: Trump Has Become Kinder to the Children of Illegal Immigrants

Robin Koerner - July 31, 2020. Published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta

[I]mmigrants from Latin America living illegally in the United States ... have greeted the president's statement with great enthusiasm.

Poland: Donald Trump Is Leading US to a Civil Cold War

Robin Koerner - July 30, 2020. Published in Polityka

It is not difficult to find similarities between Trump’s rhetoric and the election phraseology of the ruling party in our own country and right-wing populist politicians around the world.

France: The COVID-19 Spike in the US: Solely Trump’s Responsibility

Reg Moss - July 30, 2020. Published in Les Echos

The political and governmental response to COVID-19 suffers, in fact, from the inconsistency of the White House.

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