WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Garrett, a 27-year-old graduate student, always thought he would study in China, but first the country’s restrictive COVID-19 policies made it nearly impossible and now he has other concerns. The cost is one deterrent, but Garrett is more worried about restrictions on academic freedom and the personal risk of being stranded in China. He is not alone. These days, only about 700 American students are studying at Chinese universities, down from a peak of close to 25,000 a decade ago, while there are at U.S. schools....

Karl Stoss, Future Host Commission for the Olympic Winter Games chair, Colin Hilton, Olympic Legacy Foundation president and CEO, and Fraser Bullock, president and CEO of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games, remark on an Austrian flag flying as members of the International Olympic Committee’s Future Host Commission, IOC, U.S. Olympic and Paralympic leaders arrive to tour the Utah Olympic Oval in consideration for the 2034 Games in Kearns on Friday, April 12, 2024. Stoss is Austrian. A pair of short track speedskating coaches at the Utah Olympic...

White House officials told notable TikTok and social media users it was preparing to wipe away their student loans before the Biden administration announced plans Friday to cancel $7.4 billion in additional debt for 277,000 borrowers. Neera Tanden and Viviann Anguiano — both members of President Biden’s Domestic Policy Council — informed at least 30 of the Gen Z influencers in a private meeting that their cohort was eligible for the write-off, the Daily Mail reported. Anguiano affirmed that the administration opposed the Supreme Court having rejected a previous effort...

China Feels Boxed In by the U.S. but Has Few Ways to Push Back China seeks to project military power in the seas around its coastline, yet also faces pressure to mend relations with neighbors for the good of its economy. President Biden with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan at the White House on Thursday. Yuri Gripas for The New York Times President Biden’s effort to build American security alliances in China’s backyard is likely to reinforce the Chinese leader Xi...

Authored by Kevin Roberts and Robert Redfield via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Four years have passed since the onset of COVID-19 and the global mishandling of its spread. Now, the same governments and international organizations that lied about the last pandemic are negotiating a new pandemic agreement and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) at the World Health Organization (WHO). The main culprit hasn’t changed. Although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never been held accountable for its complete refusal to adhere to previous IHR agreements or its...