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[苏里格 @szslg]

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[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Here is the full text of 🇨🇦 PM Carney speech in Davos earlier today. It will probably be the best of speeches there this year. https://t.co/1xRKzimHlf

[Richard N. Haass @RichardHaass]

The new National Security Strategy constitutes the biggest redirection of US foreign policy since the end of WW2, and is likely to result in a messier, less free, and less prosperous world. My take: https://t.co/quxWn5iOmV

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.

@dhruvtkpatel and @camsrivastava report.

https://t.co/p8uUQjwtfG

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

Senate Democrats blink on the shutdown after 40 days of pain
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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: Chinese leader Xi Jinping is planning to press his American counterpart to formally state that the U.S. “opposes” Taiwan’s independence https://t.co/OoERtnFoh8

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: Liu Jianchao, a senior Chinese diplomat widely seen as a potential foreign minister, has been taken away by authorities for questioning, according to people familiar with the matter https://t.co/VvBb6HYEer

[BBC News 中文 @bbcchinese]

带着知名调查记者、主持人和“公知”光环，柴静出走国家媒体，成为独立媒体人。2017年，为了持续自己的新闻工作，柴静出走欧洲。

今年5月，柴静10年前出版的自传体书在中国被下架， 也让她再次回到舆论浪尖。她近日接受BBC访问，谈及二十多年的媒体生涯经历和感受。

https://t.co/FsJwhjLyUr

[New York Post @nypost]

Hegseth rips ‘fake story’ he had makeup studio installed at Pentagon https://t.co/0oR3Qc2E1Z

[FT China @ftchina]

FirstFT: China investigates son of former vice-premier Liu He https://t.co/0uhYngEelW

[ThinkChina @ThinkChinaSG]

... (Li Ka-shing's) current sale of ports to a US consortium appears to be an effort to avoid becoming a casualty in China-US rivalry. https://t.co/ajI0kV1L90 #LiKaShing #HongKong #ThinkChina

[liuliu @liuliu1211]

柴静对话为俄罗斯作战的中国雇佣兵：“我可能会在战争中死去，所以决定说出真实”｜ https://t.co/kiq0Rgz6uS 来自 @YouTube

[liuliu @liuliu1211]

柴静回应“薄瓜瓜”：薄熙来在打黑中应该负什么责任？我亲历的重庆打黑 https://t.co/wvy7zftWLB 来自 @YouTube

[Eva Dou @evadou]

“House of Huawei” is out today in the US and UK! It’s the story of how one of the world’s most controversial high-tech companies was built, set against the backdrop of the political, social and economic transformation of modern China. Here’s my cat Pigeon inspecting it.

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

BREAKING: Four instructors affiliated with Iowa's Cornell College were injured in "a serious incident" while at a park in China, the college said. https://t.co/QrZVIypqQM

[liuliu @liuliu1211]

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[liuliu @liuliu1211]

【柴静访谈前美国驻成都总领事夫人庄祖宜】首谈中美互撤领馆风波：“被两方夹攻时我对世界特别绝望” https://t.co/2PXGHfS5e7 来自 @YouTube

[Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken]

I’m in China to make progress on issues that matter most to the American people, including curbing fentanyl trafficking. We will discuss work underway to fulfill commitments made by @POTUS and President Xi last fall, as well as the areas where we have significant disagreements.