Friday, May 18, 2018

Season Shift


5 comments:

  1. Chinese negotiators prepare to snooker Trump[Click] (This seems to be the full NYT article, but in their Chinese edition. It was in the Fresno Bee this morning.) So the great deal maker is going to have to present nothingburgers as personal victories over both China and North Korea.

    Alan

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  2. Kim Jong Un jerks Trump's chain; Bigger Button Man comes to heel:

    From talkingpointsmemo.com:
    Korea Exercises Canceled After North Korean Demand
    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to call off next month’s presidential summit in Singapore with President Trump over scheduled US-ROK military exercises which Kim had appeared earlier to say would not be an obstacle to the summit. Now the US seems to have given way and indeed scrapped the exercises.

    --Alan

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