Yoda: China Gets It Right — Summary

New Era of China’s Development and Prospects for China-Russia Relations Li Hui Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Russian Federation Extracts and Links to Entire Presentation Below the Fold

Yoda: Media Hit Job on Mike Pompeo – Ignore Fact that Binney is Top Gun for Legal Signals Intelligence in Real World — Links to Reports Refuting IC Report on Russia

A conspiracy to discredit Mike Pompeo? All within two days, all with the same “conspiracy” theme? ORIGINAL STORY: Duncan Campbell and James Risen, “CIA Director Met Advocate of Disputed DNC Hack Theory — at Trump’s Request“, The Intercept, 7 November 2017. “…helps fuel one of the more bizarre conspiracy theories…” MEDIA HIT JOB CLEARLY ORCHESTRATED

Parag Khanna: Our Asian Future … and More

Believe it or not, we are nearing one year since last November’s presidential election. Since then, populism seems to have triumphed over pragmatism in every corner of American policy-making. But whereas many expected 2016’s Brexit and Trump shocks to inspire a populist wave across the Western world, this year’s French and German elections fortunately proved …