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2023 THE CHOICE：Taylor Swift

Since 1927, TIME has chosen a Person of the Year, the editors’ assessment of the individual who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse.

José Andrés: Let People Eat

In the worst conditions you can imagine — after hurricanes, earthquakes, bombs and gunfire — the best of humanity shows up. Not once or twice but always.

Israeli inquiry findings on aid worker killings lack credibility, charity says

–WCK renews call for independent investigation as former general blames incident on ‘grave errors’

World Central Kitchen has rejected as lacking credibility the findings of an Israeli investigation led by a former general into a coordinated series of Israeli drone strikes on the charity’s vehicles in Gaza this week that killed seven aid workers.

A gruesome murder sparks a debate about juvenile justice in China

–A system that had become more merciful is being tested

In one of the best-known commentaries attributed to him, Confucius said that at the age of 15 he set his mind on studying. At the ages of 30, 40, 50 and 60 he reached successive new levels of maturity and understanding. But it was only at the age of 70 that he had learnt how to follow his heart’s desires without overstepping boundaries. Today, 2,500 years since the great sage held forth, Chinese society continues to grapple with ethical questions about the appropriate balance between leniency and accountability for juvenile transgressors of the law.

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US

–John Barnett was a former quality control manager at Boeing

A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm’s production standards has been found dead in the US.

Yu Hua on why young Chinese no longer want to work for private firms

–In today’s China stability trumps enterprise, argues the novelist

What lies at the far reaches of the universe? This is a question that science has yet to answer, but most young people in China today already have an answer. According to them, at the end of the universe is not the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy or the Canes Venatici Constellation, but a government job.

Will TikTok still exist in America?

–As Congress starts the clock on a ban, the app must consider its options

Listen closely and you can hear the influencers wail. On March 13th America’s House of Representatives passed a bill barring app stores and internet providers from distributing “foreign-adversary-controlled applications”. The target is clear: TikTok, a hit short-video app to which 170m Americans are glued for an average of 56 minutes a day.

China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball

It happened very quickly, so fast that you might not have noticed it. Over the past few months, America’s Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the oddly named company that owns Dodge, Chrysler and Jeep — landed in big trouble.

Joe Biden dog Commander bit Secret Service agents at least 24 times

President Joe Biden’s dog Commander bit US Secret Service agents on at least 24 occasions, new documents show.

Secret Service records show the extent to which the German Shepherd caused chaos for the presidential bodyguards.

Suicide vs genocide: Rest in power, Aaron Bushnell

–Bushnell’s extreme act of protest has put Western corporate media to shame.

On Sunday, February 25, 25-year-old active duty member of the United States Air Force Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in the US capital of Washington, DC, in a one -airman revolt against the US-backed slaughter currently being perpetrated by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip.