Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

Articles by this author

U.S. President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with China's President Xi Jinping on November 9, 2017 in Beijing, China Views
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Trump Was Wrong About China
Trump’s historic defeat by more than 6 million votes on Nov. 3rd has not stalled an aggressive campaign to continue a backward-looking foreign policy agenda. Establishment opinion-makers, U.S. intelligence apparatchiks, and business elites have gone to work in the editorial pages of the Washington...
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As the protests spread to every state and were met with violent police aggression, mass arrests, beatings, attacks with rubber bullets and truncheons, the sympathy for protest also spread. (Photo: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images) Views
Friday, June 05, 2020
Some Lessons of the American Uprising 2020
What lessons have we learned from the American Uprising of 2020? First, we now know Trump's America is no longer governable. It is unled; its people are angry. They are fed up with business as usual. The Trump administration must end. If Congress refuses to stop his fascist moves, the American...
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U.S. President Donald Trump is flanked by Vice President Mike Pence Views
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Trump's Anti-Chinese Racist Campaign Strategy Mobilizes Right-Wing Extremists
In a direct attack on China and a clear indictment of international cooperation to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally ordered withholding funds from the World Health Organization. In a White House statement, Trump accused the international body of "preferential treatment" for China and "mismanaging" the pandemic.
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