Advisor on strategy, business & politics. Asian cross border advisory services. Passionate writer, observer of China. Love Hong Kong, home since 2001.
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DdBvScheltinga retweeted
From 10:36 pm ET-midnight last night the president posted/re-posted dozens of clips including videos/clips pushing long-debunked 2020 election conspiracy theories after which one features this vile & racist depiction of President and First Lady Obama.
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys.
There’s no bottom
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Four days before Trump’s inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal w/the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500M, according to documents & people familiar.
The buyer paid half up front, steering $187M to Trump family entities and $31M to Witkoff entities.
The investment was backed by the UAE national security adviser, Tahnoon bin Zayed. The deal put two executives at his company, G42, on the board of WLF, alongside Eric Trump and Zach Witkoff.
W/@skesslr @eliotwb @AABerwick wsj.com/politics/policy/spy-…
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
In any other time or presidency, this story. reported by @WSJ, would be an earthquake of a scandal.
The size, scope and implications of it are unprecedented and mind-boggling.
But will this Congress, which brayed endlessly about the "Biden crime family," probe it?
Not a chance.
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"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
The most damning view I’ve seen.
Can’t imagine even an argument that the shooter believes he is in imminent danger of deadly harm. Infuriating to juxtapose with the reflexive false statements from Trump on down.
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This thread is now being down ranked.
Please do your part in retweeting it.
It contains frame by frame analysis from ALL the videos we’ve seen today, showing how ICE murdered this man.
It is important people see the truth! 🫡
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
I find this a very weak argument for an invasion this year. The PLA leadership is in disarray and Xi Jinping getting what he wants from Trump on so many fronts. At the same time, INDOPAC is building very new capabilities with Japan/Philippines/Australia etc. The new KMT leadership is very friendly. Why upset a very positive geopolitical position by destroying Taiwan?
Yun Sun, Director of the China Program at @StimsonCenter , writes it is increasingly convincing that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan will happen and could even be imminent in 2026. A must read. foreignaffairs.com/china/per…
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
Having lived through a similar, nationwide version of this in Trump's model, Putin's Russia, it’s not easy to fight against. And Trump and many of his gang have passed the point at which they feel they can afford to lose power, even in Congress. It’s a perilous moment.
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
Nederlandse militairen hebben in #Afghanistan onder gevaarlijke omstandigheden gediend, uit solidariteit met bondgenoten. Ze hebben daar gevochten voor veiligheid en offers gebracht die zij en hun families voor altijd meedragen.
Hun inzet verdient erkenning, geen ontkenning.
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
Make no mistake, this latest threat and sophomoric bombast isn't about trade.
It's about @MarkJCarney, the PM of Canada, forthrightly telling his people & the world hard truths about the unreliability of America as an ally and a partner in the era of Trump.
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
Now would be a good time for our former Presidents to come together and take a stand for the American people against ICE and this fascist regime.
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
One of my former research assistants was killed by ICE in Minneapolis today😢
Alex was the kindest, sweetest human and a ICU nurse with a bright future ahead of him
May his soul rest in peace and this senseless carnage stop💔
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
It's extraordinary that Board of Peace is being discussed on media - including @BBCWorldatOne - without reference to the requirement of 2/3rds majority of the Senate for ratification of treaties - is amazing. Admin will argue probably this isn't a treaty but of course it is
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
DdBvScheltinga retweeted
So embarrassing for our country:
“European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde was among the attendees who walked out of an invitation-only dinner in Davos on Tuesday during a provocative speech by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.”
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Trump: "The fact is no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the U.S.…We saw this in WWII, when Denmark fell to Germany after just 6 hours of fighting."
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“They turned out to be higher IQ than we thought,” Trump says of the Somali people, many thousands of whom are U.S. citizens.
