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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Adam Entous & Evan Osnos for the New Yorker: Kushner is China's Trump Card.
A must read.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/jared-kushner-is-chinas-trump-card
Anybody can see the couple is sucking up to the Chinese--even their child was trotted out to deliver greetings in Mandarin to Presdt Xi.
Maybe they learned all this from Burma.
Hollow laugh.
1-23-2018
Much to read from the Atlantic--incld--Friday Night Massacre.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/cq-brown-and-friday-night-massacre/681803/
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https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Famous+Chinese+tenors#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:12005ab7,vid:_d4ap5I_tmk,st:0
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https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/us-sanctions-myanmar-and-russia-firms-arming-junta.html