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$339B one day (WA Examiner)
Russian airbus crash at Sini (RT) (Telegraph) (CNN)
EPA targets air conditioner juice (HFCs) (DC)
Marijuana stays outlawed in Ohio: 65-35% vote (RT)
Mexico v China: manufacturing (QZ)
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continue readingChina moves more and more with money. The economy is crashing, largely due to the Communist doctrine that citizens do not own land—something we rarely read about.
China also gears up for both war and investment contingency. BRICS was ratified this week. New national “interests” rhetoric and policy came from Beijing, implying war against Taiwan more than recently.
The Taiwan problem comes from documentation. When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, they gave up Taiwan, which China had surrendered properly to Japan. But Japan never stated who they were giving Taiwan over to, technically rendering Taiwan an already independent State. Taiwan has been fought over by China’s Communist party after China’s KMT-Nationalist party was forced to find a place to live in de facto exile. Both Communist and KMT-Nationalist parties seem to be attempting to rewrite history, as the Taiwan education fiasco shows.
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China’s national security law gives PLA mission to protect overseas interests
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