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Two members of a Chinese Communist Party advisory group serve on the board of @Yale's Beijing center.

They serve alongside the founder of controversial Chinese tech giant Tencent. Yale refuses to say whether Tencent has given $ to school.
freebeacon.com/national-secur…
Yale Center Beijing has held events promoting China's initiatives. They hosted an event about Belt & Road that was broadcast on state-controlled CGTN.

In 2019, hosted an event w/ the head of NBA China touting cooperation. Months later, China banned NBA games b/c of Hong Kong
In 2018, the Center hosted an event w/ Tencent and an official w/ China's State Council regarding AI. Significant timing, because the State Council had just issued a directive laying out China's plans to take over AI field by 2030.
And last year, Yale Center Beijing hosted an event with a scholar from Western Returned Scholars Association, which directs China's infamous "Thousand Talents" program.

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Bush family scion is co-sponsoring an event in China this week with executives from a blacklisted Chinese military contractor that reportedly launched the hypersonic missile that has worried US military. freebeacon.com/national-secur…
Bush is co-sponsoring the International Symposium for the Peaceful Use of Space. Despite the benign sounding name, top officials from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) are co-chairing the event.
The Biden and Trump admins blocked Americans from doing business with CASC because of its service to the People's Liberation Army.
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This might be my favorite of @maddow's Steele dossier segments. The Danchenko indictment really destroyed it. Mini-thread:
The segment is titled "More Pieces of Donald Trump Russia Dossier Check Out."

In typical Maddow fashion, she spent 20 minutes dissecting a pretty minor allegation in the dossier: that Russia suddenly recalled its diplomat Mikhail Kalugin because of his involvement in hacking.
Maddow asserted that Kalugin was suddenly recalled to Moscow, to everyone's surprise. She cited a McClatchy report that Kalugin was on US govt's radar (a Russian diplomat on our radar, whoa if true).
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I watched @benjaminwittes's convo with @petestrzok regarding the Danchenko indictment. It was the joke I expected. Here's a thread.
One semi-surprise up top was that Strzok said that he agreed that Danchenko's lies merited criminal charges. But besides that admission, Strzok spends the rest of his analysis criticizing Durham and defending the FBI.
One thing Strzok and Wittes do is downplay the significance of the dossier to the FBI's overall investigation of Trump-Russia. They acknowledge its role in the Carter Page FISA. They say the FBI chased down the leads, but didn't really use the dossier that much.
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Watched the @GStephanopoulos doc on Chris Steele. As expected, it's overly sympathetic towards Steele, albeit with some strong criticism from @BarryMeier. Mini thread:
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ABC's Pierre Thomas nods at how poorly placed the source network is, but it's mentioned in passing and not revisited. Basically, Danchenko would be the more useful interview in terms of knowing about how the dossier came together. Steele was merely a middleman.
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NEW @FreeBeacon:
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Court filings show a staffer for Sen. Jack Reed had Daniel Jones analyze the Alfa Bank data.

freebeacon.com/democrats/sena…
An unidentified source provided Kirk McConnell of the Senate Armed Services Committee with the Alfa Bank data. The Committee set up a meeting between Jones and a rep for the source of the data. Unclear if Sussmann was involved here.
Another interesting tidbit: Alfa Bank has subpoenaed Mickey Dickerson, a former Obama White House tech who was involved in the Reid Hoffman-funded disinformation effort during the 2017 Alabama Senate special election. Dickerson worked with a group called New Knowledge on that
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New and interesting information in the Sussmann indictment. His tech executive client allegedly accessed non-public info about Trump, and they coordinated all of this with agents of the Clinton campaign. Are the walls closing in?
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