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Amateurish from start to finish
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
So assuming this story is correct -- and the WSJ reporter is excellent -- Trump's chief negotiator on Ukraine is meeting with Putin about how to end the war while also scouting sites for a possible Trump hotel in Moscow.
The meeting represents a victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who seeks to end international isolation and separate Russian ties with the U.S. from the fate of Ukraine.
The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside
The data shows that Europe’s long-promised defence revival, driven by an injection of public subsidies, is beginning to materialise not just in policy rhetoric or spending pledges but also in concrete and steel
FT radar analysis reveals historic scale of rearmament, stretching over 7mn sq metres of new development
A longer video of the collision between PLA Navy destroyer Guilin and a Chinese coast guard ship as they pursued a Philippines coast guard patrol vessel about 10 miles east of Scarborough Shoal
Not a single line in this story pointing out that this is a thoroughly unjustified & provocative use of the National Guard
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
Enjoyed speaking with Liz Economy about the outlook for EU-China relations after the summit 👇🏼
YouTube video by Hoover Institution
🇨🇳 "It would be a supreme irony if Europe was accelerating its turn away from China just as Trump was leaning back in."
👀 In the latest edition of Watching China in Europe, GMF's @noahbarkin.bsky.social analyzes the outcomes of the Summit and other recent EU-China developments: buff.ly/xMhh1ly
Inflection Point
Brazil calls Trump’s bluff and he backs down
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s defiant response to Donald Trump’s 50% tariff threat was validated Wednesday — at least in the short term — with markets and businesses breathing a collect...
Missing from this FT editorial is the crucial fact that this deal, from an EU perspective, had more to do with keeping US security guarantees intact than it did with trade. The fear was that Trump would use EU retaliation as an excuse to pull back from NATO on.ft.com/4miPJfW
The US president’s deals are not a win-win for the global economy
Growth that exceeds expectations is a reason to cut interest rates according to these numbskulls
