Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America
People in China are expressing alarm at what seems to be an authoritarian turn in the United States, long their role model of democracy, that feels familiar.
In a comment on an episode of my Chinese-language podcast, a YouTube viewer wrote a parody of a White House announcement in the style of Communist Party propaganda.
“The entire Republican Party and all of America must unite even more closely around the White House Central Committee with President Trump at its core, holding high the great banner of American-style capitalism,” the user wrote. “We must fully implement Trump’s New Era American Capitalism Thought, stay united in purpose, uphold tradition while innovating, forge ahead with determination, and fight tirelessly to achieve the great MAGA goal!”
Broader trends have been pointing to slower economic growth. But with an aggressive and erratic protectionist in the White House, a downshift might come sooner than expected—and be sharper https://econ.trib.al/dKqRg36
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「今天，美國向最親密的夥伴和盟友、最親密的朋友加拿大發動了貿易戰。同時，他們也談到與俄羅斯積極合作，安撫弗拉基米爾·普丁」 賈斯汀·特魯多 加拿大總理
“Today, the US launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin”
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美國主流媒體網站首頁缺不了Tayor Swift (紐約時報、NPR)。
Taylor Swift Gives Kansas City Its Own Love Story
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › 2024/02/09 › kansas-city-c...
— People roll a photo backdrop of Travis Kelce and his number, 87, across a. The Chiefs will play in the Super Bowl for the fourth time in five ...
How to be a power couple like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
CNN
https://www.cnn.com › 2024/02/10 › health › power-co...
As Swift continues an international tour while putting out a new album and Kelce heads to the Super Bowl, here is what we can learn from two ...
哈佛大學將於2024年 開設名為'Taylor Swift and Her World' 的課程，探討她的歌詞、音樂以及對於文學的影響力
Today’s Headlines
August 3, 2023
How big a deal is Taylor Swift? Fed tracks her.
Harvard experts assess pop superstar as songwriter, performer, and entrepreneur who is breaking records for album sales, tour revenue.
泰勒·斯威夫特 (Taylor Swift) 身穿閃亮的緊身衣，在 Eras 巡演中大展身手。 泰勒·斯威夫特有多重要？ 美聯儲追踪她。 哈佛大學的專家將流行巨星評估為詞曲作者、表演者和企業家，他們的專輯銷量和巡演收入都打破了記錄。
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Taylor Swift won the album of the year Grammy on Sunday for her 2022 album “Midnights,” becoming the artist with the most wins in the coveted category with four.
Prior to her win of the coveted award, Swift was tied with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon, who along with her all previously won album of the year three times. She took home golden gramophones for album of the year in 2009 for “Fearless,” 2015 for “1989” and 2021 for “Folklore.” https://cnn.it/4bskQAY
Energetic performances and wins by women — and the announcement by Taylor Swift of a new album — have dominated the 66th Grammy Awards.
Taylor Swift Gives Kansas City Its Own Love Story
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › 2024/02/09 › kansas-city-c...
— People roll a photo backdrop of Travis Kelce and his number, 87, across a. The Chiefs will play in the Super Bowl for the fourth time in five ...
How to be a power couple like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
CNN
https://www.cnn.com › 2024/02/10 › health › power-co...
As Swift continues an international tour while putting out a new album and Kelce heads to the Super Bowl, here is what we can learn from two ...
哈佛大學將於2024年 開設名為'Taylor Swift and Her World' 的課程，探討她的歌詞、音樂以及對於文學的影響力
TIME magazine explains why they chose Taylor Swift as their Person of the Year: “No one else on the planet today can move so many people so well. Achieving this feat is something we often chalk up to the alignments of planets and fates, but giving too much credit to the stars ignores her skill and her power.”
“In a divided world, where too many institutions are failing, Taylor Swift found a way to transcend borders and be a source of light. No one else on the planet today can move so many people so well. Achieving this feat is something we often chalk up to the alignments of planets and fates, but giving too much credit to the stars ignores her skill and her power.
Swift is the rare person who is both the writer and hero of her own story. Her path is untraveled, something she’s known for some time. “I can’t find anyone, really, who’s had the same career trajectory as mine,” Swift told us in 2014 when she first appeared on the cover of TIME upon releasing her fifth album, 1989. “So when I’m in an optimistic place I hope that my life won’t match anyone else’s life trajectory, either.”
While her popularity has grown across the decades, this is the year that Swift, 33, achieved a kind of nuclear fusion: shooting art and commerce together to release an energy of historic force. She did it by embracing what she does better than anyone, entertaining and writing songs that connect with people. Now she becomes the first Person of the Year to be recognized for her success in the arts, in a year when we were reawakened to questions about who makes and who owns our cultural expressions. Swift is also a symbol of generational change: she is only the fourth solo Person of the Year born in the past half century.
In the 17 years since her debut, Swift has notched more No. 1 albums than any other woman in history. This year alone she had three. She was everywhere in 2023, filling stadiums and breaking records, which meant we were forced to find novel ways to measure the magnitude of her reach. Seismograms were deployed to show the literal impact caused by her fans. As Swift reportedly became a billionaire, countries’ gross domestic products became the yardstick for her financial contributions. University classes to study Swift’s lessons in literature, business, and law were announced. Swift was showered with keys to cities and street signs changed to her name.
In 2023, world leaders and mayors competed to bring her monumentally successful Eras Tour to their jurisdictions. Swift has become a feature of American soft power: a U.S. diplomat told me how meaningful it was to get Swift to agree to play in his host country. And Swift, as we now know, has had a Midas touch, improving the fortunes of every place she visits and business she celebrates. Just ask the NFL about its millions of new fans. Or your secretary of state: tens of thousands of fans registered to vote after she encouraged them on Instagram, spiking visits to Vote.org. “She’s done a great job of sticking to her guns and being vocal and political in the ways that she wants to,” says the Chicks’ front woman Natalie Maines.
At the same time, much of what Swift accomplished in 2023 exists beyond measurement. She mapped her journey and shared the results with the world: She committed to validating the dreams, feelings, and experiences of people, especially women, who felt overlooked and regularly underestimated. They know she respects her audience, and trusts them with her story. She held up a mirror to her own life, helping people better see themselves. She embraced her past, foibles and all, and in doing so encouraged others to do the same.
While Swift’s success can feel like a counterweight to traditional forms of power, the secret to her mastery has ancient roots. She is writing her own myth, informed by her own journey. And it has been an epic. So many have turned to those tales because they’ve been so disappointed by the storylines that emerge elsewhere in society. Any student of that Great Man Theory of history knows how deeply intertwined it is with centuries of sexism and the exclusion of women from power. Indeed, this isn’t the first time Swift has been part of TIME Person of the Year; in 2017, she was among the “Silence Breakers” we recognized for standing up and speaking out against discrimination, harassment, and assault faced by too many women for far too long.
Swift has been both avatar and author of shifting narratives, never more so than in 2023. Where do they take us? It might look something like what Swift has created, making a space for 70,000 people, night after night, to experience joy together. What is a higher form of influence, after all, than giving millions of fans, young and old, the time of their lives, where they can revel not only in Swift’s voice but in finding their own? These moments were all the more magical for taking place as we exited a pandemic, rediscovering the communal experiences that were so recently taken from us.
For building a world of her own that made a place for so many, for spinning her story into a global legend, for bringing joy to a society desperately in need of it, Taylor Swift is TIME’s 2023 Person of the Year.”
https://time.com/6342816/person-of-the-year-2023-taylor-swift-choice/
Today’s Headlines
August 3, 2023
How big a deal is Taylor Swift? Fed tracks her.
Harvard experts assess pop superstar as songwriter, performer, and entrepreneur who is breaking records for album sales, tour revenue.
泰勒·斯威夫特 (Taylor Swift) 身穿閃亮的緊身衣，在 Eras 巡演中大展身手。 泰勒·斯威夫特有多重要？ 美聯儲追踪她。 哈佛大學的專家將流行巨星評估為詞曲作者、表演者和企業家，他們的專輯銷量和巡演收入都打破了記錄。
Conquered the World With Her Eras Tour.whipping up demand at a level thought unachievable in a fragmented age. https://word-watcher.blogspot.com/....../conquered......
《アンチに対して、自分の言うべきことを歌を通して言うのです。ただし、自分のメンタルはズタズタにされない程度に。SNSの使い方も理性的で、全てをそこでさらけ出すようなことはしません。
その一方で自分の失恋は赤裸々に告白するし、ファンに「自分は完璧ではなくて、あなたたちと同じように傷つくし、失敗もしてきた。あなたたちと一緒なんだ」と示す。その両方ができます。
米シンガー・ソングライターのテイラー・スウィフトが7日から、海外女性アーティストとして史上初の東京ドーム4日連続公演に臨んでいる。話題に事欠かない34歳。16歳でデビューしてからの進化について、音楽ライターの粉川しのさんに話を聞いた。
「我透過我的歌曲向反派表達了我需要說的話。然而，我的心理健康並沒有被撕成碎片。我也會理性地使用社群媒體，不會暴露那裡的一切。
另一方面，他公開承認自己的心碎，並向粉絲們展示：“我並不完美，我和你們一樣受過傷害、犯過錯誤。我和你們在一起。”你可以兩者都做。
泰勒來自一個保守派粉絲較多的國家，所以有一段時間她無法發表任何政治言論，但在2018年她宣布支持民主黨，並明確公開反對墮胎和反對同性戀禁令。進入了階段。 》
美國創作歌手泰勒絲從7日開始在東京巨蛋連續四天表演，為第一位在東京巨蛋表演的外國女藝人。
34歲的男人，不缺話題。我們採訪了音樂作家小川志乃，講述了他自 16 歲出道以來的成長歷程。---
【失去與懸念】 鍾文音／代號的背後
納博科夫的小說《Lolita》讓「蘿莉塔」就此成了「小女孩」的代名詞。
國中上英文課時也要取英文名字，老師問我想取什麼名字啊？
我小聲地說Lolita，老師搖頭笑小說看太多啊。接著我說Wendy，老師又搖頭說換一個，妳不是臉上冒著雀斑的那種鄉村可愛女孩。
我還以為老師會說妳長得不像（溫蒂）漢堡。
時尚界更是一個充滿代碼的世界。
我買包並無名牌癖，比較在意自己當時的使用狀態。多年前曾買過一個隨身菱格紋小皮包，結果只要一揹就被說今天很小香風喔。
小香，原來是香奈兒的暱稱，被叫得像是鄰家女孩似的。舉凡菱格紋都被叫小香風，彷彿張愛玲傳人都被叫張腔張派。
頂級名牌自然也成了時尚符碼，比如黛妃包，凱莉包，柏金包。
不久前在巴黎辭世的珍．柏金，柏金包取其名，如恆星閃閃發亮。
以前就很喜歡珍．柏金，讀書時還曾在宿舍貼過她的黑白影像雜誌照，她那渾身散發自在的迷人模樣吸引著我，有法式酷炫又有英式氣場，灑脫中帶著點性感。
她曾說誰要簡單的人生？那樣很無趣。又說沒有自信就不可能擁有品味。
想想這兩句話就能讓時時紛亂沓至的生活得到紓解，就成為自己自在的樣子吧，如油彩般堆疊。
珍．柏金用包已到格物致知的極致，包有貓咬痕，且一用經年，她說一個包就夠了。她喜用大包，隨興可抓物丟入，不煩惱，不換包。她的時間不花在物上，而是花在讓人生豐美上。
為了向她致意，以前就老想擁有一個黑色大包款（重點當然必須品質好且價格理想）。但都沒有遇過類似的，直到多年前去義大利旅行，在民宿附近邂逅一位皮革老職人師傅，他手作的大包縫線車工極其完美，多年使用下來完全不會走樣。
為此，我現在若出門想要把電腦書本筆盒外套水壺雨傘隨意裝進一袋時，就會想起義大利的旅次，每天在小巷子穿梭，去探望訂製款的皮包進度，跟老師傅比手畫腳聊天，一起喝卡布奇諾。
揹著類似大包，我會提醒自己記得微笑。
因為真正的底蘊是柏金那如烏雲散去的笑容，自在隨意卻又藏著細節的裝扮。於是，柏金不只是柏金包，更多是她生活所行所言與其思想的一切。
我非常喜歡她後來要求愛馬仕將其名去除，以此強烈抗議鱷魚為人之欲的虐殺。我看她包包的吊飾經常掛有木質念珠，真是佛心來著。
天花板級物品我們極難（也未必需要）觸及，但天花板級的人生卻值得嘗試，試著跳得更高更遠，更豐饒。
跳得更靠近自己，成為自己喜歡的樣子。
■【失去與懸念】隔週週一見刊。
Does Anyone Care About Justin Trudeau’s Separation?
A stable marriage (publicly at least) used to be a cornerstone of any world leader’s résumé. Not in 2023.
++++【礦產資源】杜魯多：相信特朗普是真的想要吞併加拿大 因其關鍵礦產資源豐富
一位高級政府官員透露，加拿大總理特魯多（Justin Trudeau）上週五表示，他相信美國總統特朗普是真正地希望吞併加拿大這個北部鄰國，因為加國擁有豐富的關鍵礦產資源。加拿大擁有30多種對手機、電動車電池和國防應用等現代技術至關重要的關鍵礦物。
Justin Trudeau Separates From Wife, Sophie Grégoire
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Whatever his talents as clickbait, a strong case can be made that Trudeau is not very good at the governing side of his job.
Opinion | The world needs to stop mindlessly fawning over Justin Trudeau
Living in a country run by a social media celebrity is a lot less fun than the…
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Canada's PM personally welcomes Syrian refugees
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Shih-Ling Wang 分享了 Global News 的影片。
加拿大總理 Justin Trudeau：「今晚，他們以難民的身分步下飛機，但將以永久居留者的身分步出航廈。」
首批由加拿大政府專機接運的敘利亞難民，共163人，於昨晚飛抵多倫多。今年 11 月甫上任的 Trudeau 所領導的自由黨政府承諾，將接納 25,000 名敘利亞難民，其中 1 萬人將在今年年底之前完成安置，另外 15,000 人則預定於明年 2 月底之前陸續抵達加拿大。
Trudeau 在機場的講話：「在這個美好的夜晚，我們不只向這整架飛機上的新加拿大人展現加拿大本色，更向世界示範了如何敞開心胸來歡迎這些試圖逃離危險處境的人們。
「但我們不僅只是在今晚迎接他們，更要在往後的幾週、幾個月、幾年當中確保這些將在近幾個月內到來的每一個人，都能為自己和家人建立自己的生活，並為這個國家的成長有所貢獻。
「我們將記得，在這一刻，我們示範了加拿大人所信仰的價值，而且我們知道，我們所迎接的多元性，將為我們帶來力量，而非弱點；我們要為這些歷經重重艱困處境的人們提供邁向成功的機會，以敞開的雙臂和開放的心，為他們、他們的孩子、甚至是他們的子孫提供一個未來；而這，才是這個國家最大的力量。
「今晚，他們以難民的身分步下飛機，但他們將以永久居留者的身分，帶著社會保險、健康保險、以及成為加拿大公民的機會，步出航廈。我們能在這個國家這麼做，因為我們不是以膚色、語言、宗教或背景來定義一位加拿大人，而是以我們與世界各地的人們共享的價值、理想、希望和夢想來定義。
「他們將一輩子記得，你今晚如何迎接他們，而我相信，你也會永遠記得這一夜。我誠摯地感謝你的參與，因為這件事情至關重要，今晚不只對加拿大，對整個是界都是意義非凡的。謝謝你，我的朋友們。」
C'est un moment ce soir don't nous allons tous se souvenir pendant des années à venir. Ce moment, ce soir, on a commencé à démontrer c'est quoi, les valeurs des canadiens; comment on sait que cette diversité que on va accueillir ce soir est une source de force et non une source de faiblesse. Que de comprendre que d'offrir une chance réelle de réussir à des gens qui ont vécu des moment extrêmement difficiles dans les dernières années. De leur offrir un(à) bras ouvert, un(à) cœur ouvert, un avenir pour eux certainement, et surtout pour leurs enfants et pour leurs eventuels(éventuels) petits-enfants. C'est vraiment ce qui fait la force de ce pays.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives at Pearson International Airport to cheers from the crowd as he speaks about the first government sponsored Syrian refugees to arrive in Canada.
加拿大總理 Justin Trudeau：「今晚，他們以難民的身分步下飛機，但將以永久居留者的身分步出航廈。」
首批由加拿大政府專機接運的敘利亞難民，共163人，於昨晚飛抵多倫多。今年 11 月甫上任的 Trudeau 所領導的自由黨政府承諾，將接納 25,000 名敘利亞難民，其中 1 萬人將在今年年底之前完成安置，另外 15,000 人則預定於明年 2 月底之前陸續抵達加拿大。
Trudeau 在機場的講話：「在這個美好的夜晚，我們不只向這整架飛機上的新加拿大人展現加拿大本色，更向世界示範了如何敞開心胸來歡迎這些試圖逃離危險處境的人們。
「但我們不僅只是在今晚迎接他們，更要在往後的幾週、幾個月、幾年當中確保這些將在近幾個月內到來的每一個人，都能為自己和家人建立自己的生活，並為這個國家的成長有所貢獻。
「我們將記得，在這一刻，我們示範了加拿大人所信仰的價值，而且我們知道，我們所迎接的多元性，將為我們帶來力量，而非弱點；我們要為這些歷經重重艱困處境的人們提供邁向成功的機會，以敞開的雙臂和開放的心，為他們、他們的孩子、甚至是他們的子孫提供一個未來；而這，才是這個國家最大的力量。
「今晚，他們以難民的身分步下飛機，但他們將以永久居留者的身分，帶著社會保險、健康保險、以及成為加拿大公民的機會，步出航廈。我們能在這個國家這麼做，因為我們不是以膚色、語言、宗教或背景來定義一位加拿大人，而是以我們與世界各地的人們共享的價值、理想、希望和夢想來定義。
「他們將一輩子記得，你今晚如何迎接他們，而我相信，你也會永遠記得這一夜。我誠摯地感謝你的參與，因為這件事情至關重要，今晚不只對加拿大，對整個是界都是意義非凡的。謝謝你，我的朋友們。」
C'est un moment ce soir don't nous allons tous se souvenir pendant des années à venir. Ce moment, ce soir, on a commencé à démontrer c'est quoi, les valeurs des canadiens; comment on sait que cette diversité que on va accueillir ce soir est une source de force et non une source de faiblesse. Que de comprendre que d'offrir une chance réelle de réussir à des gens qui ont vécu des moment extrêmement difficiles dans les dernières années. De leur offrir un(à) bras ouvert, un(à) cœur ouvert, un avenir pour eux certainement, et surtout pour leurs enfants et pour leurs eventuels(éventuels) petits-enfants. C'est vraiment ce qui fait la force de ce pays.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives at Pearson International Airport to cheers from the crowd as he speaks about the first government sponsored Syrian refugees to arrive in Canada.
A New Trudeau Era in Canada
As prime minister, Justin Trudeau promises to return the country to its liberal and humanitarian values.
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Stunning Rout in Canada by Justin Trudeau and His Party
By IAN AUSTEN 12:53 AM ET
Mr. Trudeau unseated the Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, in a sweeping victory for the Liberal Party on Monday.
Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party and his wife before giving his victory speech in Montreal, Canada. CreditJim Young/Reuters
Tonight, Canadian politics veered left. Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party captured a majority in Canada’s 338 seat-Parliament -- thereby putting an abrupt end to nearly a decade of Conservative governance under Stephen Harper. Harper’s Conservatives went into the campaign pledging balanced budgets. In sharp contrast, Trudeau promised three years of deficits in order to more than double spending on infrastructure. The Liberals also promised to raise taxes on Canada's "wealthiest one per cent" — earning more than $200,000 — so taxes on middle-class families could be lowered. Trudeau and the Liberals argued now is the time for Canada to invest in its future rather than embrace austerity economics, and that Canada’s rich should pay their fair share. Evidently most Canadians agree.
Are there lessons here for us, south of the border?
加拿大成功變天 自由黨終結保守黨長期執政
新頭殼newtalk | 呂佳峻 綜合報導
發布 2015.10.20 | 12:17 PM
加拿大新任總理賈斯汀‧杜魯道。圖片來源：達志影像/路透社
路透社報導，加拿大前總理皮耶‧杜魯道(Pierre Trudeau)的兒子，現任自由黨黨魁賈斯汀‧杜魯道，在19日的國會大選，順利終結保守黨長達9年的執政。儘管目前開票仍未完全結束，不過，根據加拿大環球郵報的預測，自由黨已經拿下188個席次，成功取得過半的席次。
43歲的杜魯道儘管在選戰中遭到對手質疑他是否準備好總理這個職位，但是自由黨在經濟議題上，以增加赤字預算，提高基礎建設投資，創造新就業等策略成功地吸引選民的支持。在其他政策方面，杜魯道也提出，將修復與歐巴馬(Obama)政府的冷漠關係、撤出國際打擊伊斯蘭國武裝份子的行列，改以進行人道支援，並解決氣候變遷的議題等。
預計自由黨將成為國會第一大黨，而保守黨則成為國會主要的反對黨，排在第3順位的則是左翼的新民主黨。
（圖片來源：達志影像/路透社）
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