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I don’t know why this idea became so popular. Makes very little sense to me. Must fit with something people picked up in college or grad school...
In all my conversations with Russian insiders never saw any interest in this kind of thing. Derridean textual reading is not their thing
I have yet to meet anyone - including virulently anti-Western types or even Kremlin advisors - who does not think Russia was responsible for MH17 or Skripal. So tell me how these info ops are supposed to work...
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Bruno Maçães
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After a week in Pakistan what have I learned about CPEC (Belt and Road in Pakistan)? Well, clearer than before, the realization that CPEC is not an investment project, but a general framework giving meaning to economic policy
In that sense CPEC has to be compared to the EU for Central and Eastern European countries or globalization for Singapore, Taiwan or South Korea
Which is of course the main idea of my book - good to see it reflected in Pakistan, which is a few steps ahead of other countries
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We now live in a world where no one cares the slightest bit about what Europe thinks on the greatest international questions and crises. Some may think this is excellent - why not avoid trouble and mind your own business - a thesis that will no doubt be tested
The change may have been slow but dramatic. I remember as a teenager, every time there was an international crisis, the ritual consisted of critical meetings between the American president and European leaders
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If people were not so deeply disturbed by Trump they would recognize that in this case he acted with subtlety: instead of being tricked into retaliating against Iraqis for the attack on the Baghdad embassy, he turned around and killed Soleimani instead
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