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Here's AG Sessions announcing economic espionage charges against a Chinese state-owned company, a Taiwan company, and Taiwanese individuals accused of stealing info from an Idaho-based semiconductor company. You can watch live here: justice.gov/live
Sessions: "International trade has been good for China, but cheating must stop."
Here's the indictment: justice.gov/opa/press-rele… DOJ says the individual defendants face up to 15 years in prison + $5M fine, and each company faces a maximum fine of $20B (yes, billion)
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NEW: The federal judiciary now expects to have enough money from other sources to keep the courts largely business-as-usual during the shutdown through Jan. 18 (previously it was Jan. 11) — this is the latest from the Administrative Office of the US Courts (HT @hsu_spencer)
In order to make the funds that the judiciary does have (absent a congressional appropriation) last as long as possible, "courts have been asked to delay or defer non-mission critical expenses, such as new hires, non-case related travel, and certain contracts"
DOJ, of course, is already affected by the shutdown, so most judges have been approving requests or issuing blanket orders to delay civil litigation involving the federal govt during the shutodwn (criminal cases still have to proceed as usual)
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Some fireworks in court this morning as a judge criticized the lawyer representing Concord Management & Consulting in the special counsel Russian troll farm case for his language and harsh words about Mueller's office in filings — "unprofessional, inappropriate, and ineffective"
The judge told attorney Eric Dubelier that his strategy was "ineffective" and that his approach to filings — including pop culture quotes (see: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676…) and accusing Mueller's office basically of lawlessness — was "undermining your credibility in this courthouse"
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Remember how prosecutors accused Paul Manafort of breaching his plea deal? His lawyers are due to file a response today about that — recall that at a Dec. 11 hearing, Manafort's lawyers said they needed more time to decide if they agreed or not with the govt's claims re: lying
There's no time deadline on this filing due today from Manafort's lawyer, so it could come at any time before midnight, which is always fun
For a refresher on what prosecutors accused Manafort of lying about after he signed his plea deal and was supposed to be cooperating with the government (including allegations that he lied about contacts with Trump admin officials): buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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A few guesses
- Russian Direct Investment Fund
- Qatar Investment Authority
- Rosneft
- Mubadala or ADIA (UAE)
- a Saudi fund
- VTB
- Sberbank
- RT

Wildcard guess
- Rosatom - Russia's nuclear co (re: Flynn's Mideast nuclear project)
Alfa Bank, Deutsche Bank, Cambridge Analytica etc are not owned by a country
Agree it could be a Chinese state-owned company - but I think more likely related to 1MDB scandal involving Broidy (than to CITIC ownership of Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group or related to Cambridge Analytica/Emerdata) - but who knows at this stage
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@SpicyFiles @lauferlaw @t_pletch @GWillicker8 Here is an example (a likely one at that) of a "state owned" company being charged. A chinese company charged with steal trade secrets. Indicted November 1, 2018 justice.gov/opa/pr/prc-sta…
The only reason it is probably NOT that one is that those charges appear to be in California.
Here is another possibility, and one as @SpicyFiles pointed out, would involve top secret facts and therefore a SCIF courtroom. Chinese nationals and company stealing jet intellectual property. justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese…
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Grassley Statement on Reported Arrest of Huawei Executive

@drawandstrike @catesduane @rising_serpent @almostjingo @tracybeanz @TheChiIIum @hfinch63 @Quodverum_ @headsnipe01

grassley.senate.gov/news/news-rele…
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa issued the following statement on the recently reported arrest of Huawei’s Global Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou.
“The arrest of Meng Wanzhou underscores a troubling trend of Chinese companies and state actors flouting the rule of law and stealing from U.S. companies. Ms. Wanzhou’s arrest comes on the heels of the October arrest of Yanjun Xu,
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US-China tensions played no part in death of renowned Stanford professor Zhang Shoucheng, family says | South China Morning Post
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⁦@Avery1776⁩ ⁦@STUinSD⁩ scmp.com/news/china/soc…
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Rumors circulated on Chinese social media about Professor Zhang’s death, some trying to link his death to the possible investigation by US govt or tied to the arrrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.
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How many high profile ChiComs fell to death recently?
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"To call China a colonial power is to diminish the horrors that were faced by colonized communities."

A thread on China in Africa.
People have made a big fuss about China's involvement in Africa, some going so far as to call it "new colonialism." It's deeply ironic when US or European officials make this claim, considering their countries' imperial and colonial histories.
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