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On this day in 2010, the Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk. The crash killed all 96 people on board, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and many other high-ranking officials.
According to a new report, the world’s primary recipient of Ukrainian grain is China, and the pace of exports has exceeded pre-war levels. But the Chinese leader’s long game goes much further.
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros said Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) may fail in his widely expected bid to extend his rule of the country later this year. “Given the strong opposition within the Communist Party, Xi Jinping’s carefully choreographed elevation to the level of Mao Zedong (毛澤東) and Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平) may never occur,” Soros, 91, said in remarks prepared for delivery on Monday at an event sponsored by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Soros, speaking days before the start of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, cited Xi’s enemies withi...
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