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Obama tried to work with McConnell during election to put out a statement regarding Russian meddling but McConnel balked. McConnel if he isn’t just as dirty as Trump is knowingly complicit. Lock him up!!

Not really “breaking” this case has a lot of interesting angles. CFO has multiple passports including rumors of gov official passport which increases US arguement that the company is a state actor. Rumors that people within US want to link to trade talks to derail trade negotiations. Case is extremely important to Beijing as many Chinese business leaders will be very afraid to fly to countries that have US extradition treaty most if not all China business leaders have some graft on them so will create a chilling effect

Placeholder for anyone with questions. Been to Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Wulingyuan, and Taipei (does this count?)

Forgot. I went to Osaka this trip. Great street food and fun town for 2 full days. While touristy bs, it is fun and has great food for way less than Tokyo to someone who has never been to Japan, I’d go toTokyo then fly to Kyoto with day trip to nikko and train to Osaka to finish

This is what I have visited over the years... Tokyo - 3 days is good enough but stay in the city near a subway line. Fly into HND as it is easier to commute. Narita is a bitch to train / bus into the city. If you fly in or out of Narita, find the hotels that the shuttle bus stops at as this will save lots of head ache. Tokyo is like NYC in that you can walk for days just exploring. The Roppogi and other “shady” areas like Shinjuku are perfectly safe and a must to go out for drinking. It may be shocking to people who aren’t used to seeing explicit adds for services but really isn’t that explicit as the online articles write. I might be desensitized to this though. Kyoto is my favorite city for a traditional Japanese experience. I’d suggest 2 days and stay in a ryokan. Nikko was a day trip for old Japan. Very cool and would suggest 3 nights in Kyoto with a day trip to nikko. Fukuyama - smaller regional city that was big enough to keep busy for 2 days Nagasaki - historical and can be done in a day. Not a bad city but wish we did Hiroshima instead given the other small cities we visited Yakushima - we spent 5 days and it is a beautiful, tiny island that is solely focused on nature. Would recommend these small islands if you want rural, natural Japan with focus on outdoor activity. A short hike is 4 hours and not easily navigated. You aren’t going for food or upscale accommodation but nature. Absolutely stunning but exhausting I’m not big into Japan so 1 trip to the country would have been enough for me but as it happens this is my third time. We were looking at islands in the north instead of Yakushima but you can’t go wrong with any of them from a nature standpoint. They all are pain in the ass to travel to though

Have people reached out to th female members of the tribe for the #metoo movement?

Not my first trip to Japan so we stayed in more rural areas / islands. Only hit major cities for travel reasons. I already have a suit case full of dirty Asian girl clothes thanks to the girlfriend

So are donations free speech or influence peddling?

Hoping and betting Ryan may be implicated

KSA funding Kush is pennies to them. They just wanted to ensure that they can deploy their money globally without US interference. KSA is one of the largest source of funds for start-ups through a network of VCs including SoftBank. They are obtaining IP via investment to modernize their economy and deploy capital

@mainblack Your “lol” photos are akin to someone’s fwd fwd fwd from their grandparents

/old sexism target vs /new?

It is different

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/chinese-bishop-disappeared-catholic-vatican-beijing/577021/

Forgot publication but read a reaction was that FBI was trying to warn Trump administration that Russia was interfering / meddling in the election. The FBI at the time didn’t fathom that the Trump campaign was coordinating with the Russians

Fuck that. The whole Republican Party is complicit. I bet in less than 4 years most republicans are going to conveniently forget their enabling of trump. We need a Democrat to have a veto proof majority plus the next presidency to unfuck all the actions trumps and republicans have done

Making a bet that no one in the trump family escapes this unless they have already flipped https://twitter.com/loopemma/status/1071183459593404417?s=21

Not sure on this comment but most if not all these companies have financing from China banks which will inherently require some level of government approval. The nature of government involvement is so integral to the economy that any comparison to the west or allegation of government support is non-sensical. You cannot exist without at some level of government approval. The larger that you become means that the higher level of consent / approval required. It does not mean necessarily that you are an appendage of the government. It is widely understood that going outside the unstated rules means you will punished, see tencent. China is a state run economy so while companies can be private that does not mean they are independent in the Western sense. It also does not mean that they are appendages of the government in the Russian paradigm. It is more confusing which makes analogies like Hugo unhelpful if not down right detrimental.

Except one is the daughter of a president / political leader while the other is a private company. Maybe if Steve Jobs daughter was next in line to be CEO of apple then would kind of be a comparable example