Donald Trump’s latest comments about allowing hundreds of thousands of Chinese international students into the United States have drawn criticism from some of the most outspoken members of the Republican Party.
Ahead of his meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung at the White House on Monday, Trump told reporters that he plans to allow 600,000 Chinese students into the country — a figure more than double the number in the United States now.
It’s a sharp departure from an announcement Secretary of State Marco Rubio made in May, when he promised the United States would “aggressively revoke” visas for Chinese students and add more scrutiny to all future visa applications from China.
You didn’t yet specify where.
Correct, that happened in year 1993, which is the reason for me having it as a separation point.
No. First Chechen war was a failure with many human losses, newspapers and TV (including state channels) and associations of soldiers’ mothers and such were howling both at the operation itself and at the losses, and it ended with Khasavyurt accord signed by general Lebed on Russia’s behalf (he was quite popular, BTW, and held pacifist enough views, being himself a participant of the war in Afghanistan ; later became a politician and died in a helicopter crash).
If anything, First Chechen war showed that Russian society does still have some spine.
And the Second Chechen war happened after a few people (one can say politicians) visible since late 80s were killed, and power balance changed.
That doesn’t change the fact that censorship existed in the USSR, freedom of movement inside the country was limited, and political parties other than the CPSU didn’t exist. While roughly between 1989 and 2012 Russian society had freedom of thought at least.
It’s year 2002, when Putin still hasn’t destroyed his (oligarchic, and honestly now those people don’t seem much nicer) opposition, and federal troops in the Northern Caucasus were in some regards similar to an occupying force. I think it was in response to that, but also, as you might have noticed, these people don’t need formalities to get something done.
I don’t know what you’re trying to say. If you are somehow imagining USSR before breakup as something like the USA of today, just communist, I’m afraid it was not. It was a country almost entirely living in “safe poverty”, where you wouldn’t generally starve, but other than that it was pretty depressive. I mean, you should watch some Soviet movie classics, even the more cheerful kind will educate you on that.
The 90s were a failure of trying to fix that thing when it stopped working. Yes, it was a catastrophe, but the USSR before it wasn’t some heaven on earth or even a good place to live. Take Chikatilo (the serial murderer) - one suspect before him was tortured for admission of guilt and executed.
You’re being deliberately obtuse.
Imagine saying this about Ukraine pre-invasion.