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[[link removed]]Facts are stubborn things; and whatever our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
—John Adams
As Founding Father John Adams said two and a half centuries ago, "facts are stubborn things." Our task is to identify and elevate those stubborn things.
Here are three…
1.
China’s
Communist
Party
(CCP)
uses
its
"Great
Firewall"
to
block
citizens
from
using
Facebook
and
Twitter,
while
the
CCP
itself
uses
these
same
banned
platforms
to
project
official
messages
around
the
world
and
attack
the
very
nation—the
United
States—whose
innovations
make
so
much
of
China’s
propaganda
possible.
2.
In
the
two
decades
that
U.S.
and
NATO
forces
have
been
actively
engaged
in
Afghanistan,
conditions,
and
opportunities
for
women
and
girls
have
dramatically
improved
on
every
front
and
by
any
measure.
3.
Venezuela,
Cuba,
Eritrea,
the
Russian
Federation,
Somalia,
Uzbekistan,
and
China
are
all
elected
members
of
the
United
Nations
Human
Rights
Council,
yet
none
of
them
is
currently
ranked
as
“Free”
or
“Partly
Free”
by
the
non-partisan
Freedom
House
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This is the second in a series of regular blog posts from the Wilson Center's President, Director, and CEO, Ambassador Mark Green.


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