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China is “assailing U.S. interests from all directions” in Latin America, U.S.

Or a disgruntled independent when he assails a Democratic establishment that’s become, as he sees it, “a club of insiders who take care of each other” and mostly go along to get along.

Whenever ministers defend the status quo in the House of Commons, they are assailed on all sides by MPs calling for recognition.

The sculpture has long sparked polemics: While adherents of the left generally applauded it, and some visitors would leave flowers, critics assailed the artwork as a tasteless shrine to a bloody communist dictatorship.

On social media, where commentators both applauded and assailed the protests, the U.S.