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Almost makes me wonder if it's deliberate, as in some quid pro quo agreed upon, implied, or otherwise, between the US and Chinese presidents. Though what the US
by jtanderson 7y ago
Almost makes me wonder if it's deliberate, as in some quid pro quo agreed upon, implied, or otherwise, between the US and Chinese presidents. Though what the US gets out of it is unclear, I wouldn't be shocked.
- bayesian_horse 7y agoMore funding for Trump's world wide real estate projects from Chinese banks? More Chinese Business contacts for the extended Kushner family? Access to the President for Chinese business men through the former owner of "massage parlours" recently involved in slave sex labor? More patents and trade marks for Ivanka Trump?
- inflatableDodo 7y agoTrump wants people to stop buying services from AT&T, as of yesterday; >"I believe that if people stoped[sic] using or subscribing to @ATT, they would be forced to make big changes at @CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway. It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News! Why wouldn’t they act. When the World watches @CNN, it gets a false picture of USA. Sad!" — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2019 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135499002626154496 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11354990026261544... What the US gets out of that is also unclear. I guess you could just take at face value this proposition by the US President that boycotting AT&T to enforce large changes in the editorial policy of CNN is something that is good for the US. But I think that you would also have to be very careful not to think about it very hard.
- freeflight 7y ago> What the US gets out of that is also unclear. It gets the media landscape in-line with the administration: "Don't you dare to report badly about me or I will make you pay for it.", at least it attempts to.