3 University of Virginia football players killed in shooting; student suspect in custody, police say

Nov 14, 2022 View Original Article
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"The university's emergency management Twitter account said shortly before 7 a.m. Monday that a complete search on and around UVA Grounds by law enforcement was underway and urged people on campus to remain sheltered."
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14% Conservative
"University President Jim Ryan and law enforcement officials were in the middle of a late morning news conference when they received word that Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a former UVA football player, had been apprehended."
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-4% Liberal
"Xi and Biden warmly greeted each other with a handshake at a luxury resort hotel in Indonesia, where they are attending the Group of 20 summit of large economies."
Positive
28% Conservative
"The nearly three-hour meeting was the highlight of Biden's weeklong, round-the-world trip to the Middle East and Asia, and came at a critical juncture for the two countries amid increasing economic and security tensions."
Positive
14% Conservative
"The White House said Biden and Xi agreed to empower key senior officials to work on areas of potential cooperation, including tackling climate change and maintaining global financial, health and food stability."
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14% Conservative
"U.S. President Joe Biden, right, stands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Biden says Chinese counterpart Xi has agreed to resume crucial talks on climate between the two countries."
Positive
12% Conservative
"The two leaders agreed to have U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken travel to Beijing to continue discussions."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Meanwhile, Xi, who has aimed to establish China as a geopolitical peer of the U.S., got symbolic home turf for the meeting as well as Biden's forceful One China policy commitment."
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6% Conservative
"Biden reiterated U.S. support for its longstanding One China policy, which recognizes the government in Beijing -- while allowing for informal American relations and defense ties with Taipei, and strategic ambiguity over whether the U.S. would respond militarily if the island were attacked."
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4% Conservative
"Biden's first stop on his long overseas trip was in Egypt for a major climate conference."
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2% Conservative
"Biden said Xi was as he's always been."
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2% Conservative
"While there were no watershed breakthroughs, the Biden-Xi meeting brought each side long-sought, if modest, gains."
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0% Conservative
"Multiple times in his presidency, Biden has said the U.S. would defend the island -- which China has eyed for eventual unification -- in case of a Beijing-led invasion."
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-4% Liberal
"Speaking at a news conference afterward, Biden said that when it comes to China, the U.S. would compete vigorously, but I'm not looking for conflict."
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-6% Liberal
"Xi called on Biden to chart the right course and elevate the relationship between China and the U.S."
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-6% Liberal
"In addition to the shared condemnation of Russian nuclear threats, Biden appeared to secure from Xi the resumption of lower-level cooperation from China on a range of shared global challenges."
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-10% Liberal
"As the leaders of our two nations, we share responsibility, in my view, to show that China and the United States can manage our differences, prevent competition from becoming anything ever near conflict, and to find ways to work together on urgent global issues that require our mutual cooperation, Biden said to open the meeting."
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-10% Liberal
"In the meeting, Biden said China's economic practices harm American workers and families, and workers and families around the world, the White House said."
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-10% Liberal
"Pelosi's trip prompted China, officially the People's Republic of China, to retaliate with military drills and the firing of ballistic missiles into nearby waters."
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-16% Liberal
"Although the two men have held five phone or video calls during Biden's presidency, White House officials said those encounters were no substitute for an in-person meeting."
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-18% Liberal
"As president, Biden has repeatedly taken China to task for human rights abuses against the Uyghur people and other ethnic minorities, crackdowns on democracy activists in Hong Kong, coercive trade practices, military provocations against self-ruled Taiwan and differences over Russia and Ukraine."
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-22% Liberal
"I didn't find him more confrontational or more conciliatory, Biden said."
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-22% Liberal
"The White House said Biden raised U.S. objections to the PRC's coercive and increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan, which undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and in the broader region, and jeopardize global prosperity."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The meeting came just weeks after the Biden administration blocked exports of advanced computer chips to China -- a national security move that bolsters U.S. competition against Beijing."
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-26% Liberal
"Biden said he and Xi also discussed Russia's aggression against Ukraine and reaffirmed our shared belief that the use or even the threat of nuclear weapons is totally unacceptable."
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-30% Liberal
"President Joe Biden objected directly to China's coercive and increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan during the first in-person meeting of his presidency with Xi Jinping, as the two superpower leaders aimed on Monday to manage their differences in the competition for global influence."
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-32% Liberal
"Beijing had cut off such contacts with the U.S. in protest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan in August."
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-32% Liberal
"The White House said Biden specifically mentioned U.S. concerns about China's actions in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, and the plight of Americans it considers wrongfully detained or subject to exit bans in China."
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-38% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% :The university's emergency management Twitter account said shortly before 7 a.m. Monday that "a complete search on and around UVA Grounds" by law enforcement was underway and urged people on campus to remain sheltered.
48% : University President Jim Ryan and law enforcement officials were in the middle of a late morning news conference when they received word that Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a former UVA football player, had been apprehended.

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