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I enjoy China trade articles that discuss Trump "playing a long game with China" without even realizing Trump achieved the goal months ago. Negotiations are finished. The current status was the goal. Decoupling is underway.
Everything now is controlling how the financial markets (Dow Jones etc.) respond to the decoupling.

Step-by-Step Trump has been slowly been retracting, while simultaneously not losing overall market investment wealth.
What he's looking for now is a firm $50 billion Ag purchase.

The carrot is a delay in the Dec 15th tariffs...
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Why are these dates redacted?
They have to retain this version....
The DOJ has to retain a clouded date system because the released (3/17/18) version had modified dates.

That's how they caught this guy:
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1. With redactions and FBI/DOJ names predictably goint ot be omitted from pending IG report release here's some personnel names to keep in mind while reviewing.
2. Kevin Clinesmith will be the FBI attorney who assembled the underlying FBI evidence for the FISA application against Carter Page.

Clinesmith then hands it off to Sally Moyer.
3. Sally Moyer was FBI unit chief in the Office of General Counsel (counterintel legal unit within the FBI Office of General Counsel). It was Moyer's job to include the citations in the FBI application [Woods File Verification]

Moyer then hands to Tashina Guahar in Main Justice.
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1. The Canadian economy is roughly one-tenth the size of the U.S. In equivalent terms the results from Canada reflect a comparative loss of 720,000 jobs on the same day the U.S. revises figures upward to over 300,000 gains. A stunning economic contrast:

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Most people never pull their noses back from the TV set to take in the long game. They don't even remember the stuff from 2 years ago, much less 2 months ago.

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