Reading archive 2022-05-23

Biden takes aggressive posture toward China on Asia trip: The president warns that the U.S. would defend Taiwan military in case of an attack by China, drawing a direct analogy to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

‘Ashamed’ Russian diplomat resigns over Putin’s ‘aggressive war’

Zelensky calls out a ‘state of war criminals’ and Davos ‘Russia House’ makeover

The reinvention of a ‘real man’: In cowboy country, a father and husband troubled by suicide reimagines American masculinity, one conversation at a time - "Bill, who is 59 years old and White, is working out his own theory. It has to do with the gap between the expectations men have for their lives and the reality of their individual experiences, worsened by cultural norms that discourage them from expressing any emotions besides anger."