Wuhans latest disaster, cop critics crime hypocrisy and other commentary

China beat: Wuhan’s Latest Disaster“All the troubles in the world apparently lead back to Wuhan,” muses National Review’s Jim Geraghty.The city that kicked off the COVID-19 pandemic “upending life for a year or two” and causing “27 million or so ‘excess deaths’ around the world” is now the site of a potential nuclear disaster: A Chinese attack submarine reportedly sank to the bottom of the Yangtze River last spring, but Beijing covered this up, too.

And this follows a little-reported incident when Wuhan University researchers allowed an AI “to control an Earth-observation satellite, which led the satellite to start looking at Indian military bases and a Japanese port used by the U.S.Navy.” Huh! “What other kinds of experiments are they doing over there in Wuhan these days?” “Summoning demons” or “reaching out to say ‘hi’ to some hostile alien empire in outer space?” Suffice it to say, you’d be forgiven for not wanting to see Wuhan make headlines anytime soon.Eye on NYC: Cop Critics’ Crime HypocrisyMayoral wannabes Comptroller Brad Lander, state Sen.

Jessica Ramos and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani have criticized NYPD officers who “fired on an agitated man armed with a knife after repeatedly warning him to drop his weapon” on Sept.15, but “their thoughts are empty and unserious,” fumes Nicole Gelinas at City Journal.

“To be sure, this episode is in need of some after-action scrutiny,” as two bystanders were injured.But the suspect, Derrell Mickles, had “a long arrest record.” “New York’s progressive criminal-justice system, the product of the policies supported by Lander and others over the past half-decade, had multiple opportunities to incapacitate Mickles” before the incident.

“Shouldn’t the mayor’s challengers wonder what went wrong with the policies they support,” since “not incarcerating Mickles failed to deter him from the actions that led him to be shot?”Campus watch: Yale’s ‘F...