I wrote a story yesterday with a source calling @bobjcarr a “useful idiot” for attending a parade in Beijing today. Good on him for not going.
And good on him a second time for making this point (sadly on the 7:30 editing room floor) about the US’s help in China WW2 victory.
I wrote a story yesterday with a source calling @bobjcarr a “useful idiot” for attending a parade in Beijing today. Good on him for not going.
And good on him a second time for making this point (sadly on the 7:30 editing room floor) about the US’s help in China WW2 victory.
It’s 2:30am in Beijing — time to head off, no joke, for the media bus to go to China’s big military parade to mark 80 years since the end of WW2.
The pomp starts at 9am.
I wonder when Xi Jinping has to get there?
Iran President @drpezeshkian just refused a handshake from Peng Liyuan (Xi at least seemed to have gotten the memo not to try to shake hands with a devout Muslim of the opposite sex, but someone forgot to tell his wife?)
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