The eldest child of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner started learning Mandarin from her Chinese nanny when she was just 16 months old, according to earlier reports.
another thing that Trump has in common with Asians: His business is run by his extended family, which is a custom here in Asia.
the American students are all taught making money is evil but here in Asia, a smooth operator and deal maker is respected, and so I suspect that culturally he has a lot more in common with China than the NWO types.
I am awaiting more reports on the trip, but I see the MSM is tweeting about Melania's spike heel. Their priorities are showing as usual.
he goes next to VietNam, where he will also meet with Duterte, and will come here in the Philippines later in the month. My stepson says they are already doing plans to shut down the roads for security. Hope we don't have any rice deliveries scheduled, because it willbe a mess.
what will they discuss? Well, narco terrorism is one bit item.
I don't know if the US news notice, but the seige in Marawi was funded by drug money.
Año compared the drug cartel of the Maute brothers inside Marawi City with “Narcos,” an American crime drama web television series about Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar. The AFP chief came up with the comparison since the Maute brothers were engaged in a “cartel-style” drug operation in the provinces of Lanao and Misamis.
Rappler had a long interview with McMaster about terrorism problems here: LINK
includes a lot of stuff about Trump's moves last year in the middle East:that were about cutting off the supply of "charity" funds to terrorism (did this result in what is going on in Saudi right now? some say it is).
Note: it is called correctly an "Irreligious ideology" behind the violence.Yeah. It's just like all those loving self proclaimed Marxists who ran the drug cartels in Colombia: it was about power and money, not communism or in this case, about Islam.
McMasters puts the whole thing into perspective:
And then, of course, you have this terrible threat of these terrorist organizations who use an irreligious ideology to foment hatred and use that hatred to justify violence against innocent people.
When the President met with leaders of over 50 Muslim majority nations in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia early this year, he emphasized 3 things that he will continue to emphasize when he works with the leadership in the Philippines as well as across the region.
The first of these is, we must deny them safe havens and support bases. The very courageous Philippine soldiers and armed forces in Marawi, they demonstrated the Filipino determination to deny them safe havens and support bases. (
The seond is to cut off financing – their ability to generate funds and mobilize resources.
And the third is to combat their ideology. There are leaders in each of these areas across the Indo-Pacific region. Singapore, for example, is very good at financial actions and helping understand better how to cut off these financial transactions. Malaysia has also taken a lead over the years on countering the ideology. This is an opportunity for the leaders to have discussion around all of these security issues you mentioned. I think what they’ll do is to look at this positively and identify opportunities to improve security across all these areas.
And here, Mc Master mentions the multinational effort to help the Philippines in the liberation of Marawi.
as for the headlines in the MSM that Trump will ignore "human rights", ( because he is not going to imitate President Obama and use the drug war here an excuse to abandon the Philippines), well all I can say is that the "drug war" is more about hitting the crooked businessmen and crooked politicians.
Maute was the cartel leaders in his area, and if the ISIS clones could have pushed an independent state under his fiefdom, then you could see how this could destablize the nearby countries.
But our politicians in the north are mainly just taking bribes and kickbacks, and worried about being shamed in public for doing so.
I say "Shamed" because a person known as a "walang Hiya" is a big thing here, and hey, no one really thinks many of them will ever get put in jail.
The most egregious example? Our lovely ex president's case. She was a classmate of Bill, so voila, George Clooney's wife intervened to get Gloria out of jail:poor dear! her human rights were violated! yup. just ignore the millions she stole, or rather that were given as gifts and kickbacks to her directly or via her husband.) This Inquirer article from 2011 has a list of some of her scams,
Arroyos were allegedly into all kinds of money-making ventures: From telecommunications (NBN-ZTE); railroad (North and South rails); selling second-hand choppers and passing them off as new; intelligence funds of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. and Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office; fertilizer and all kinds of products that government distributed supposedly to help the citizenry; real estate (Alpha Land, a real estate development company, is reportedly Mike’s but under a dummy’s name); taking over closed banks; smuggling. Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/64131/arroyo-the-most-corrupt-president#ixzz4xvZQkNHr Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook
So excuse me if I am cynical about those who (to paraphrase an irritating Jewish Carpenter) strain out a gnat but swallow a camel...
and speaking of politicians: Our mayor really cleaned up the place and won an award for doing so. I can only surmise he is spending city funding on... the city (!). What a refreshing idea.
But there must be an election soon, because our cook reported someone shot at the house of the ex mayor down the street from us. She, or someone in her clan, will probably run against him. This ex mayor is the daughter of the mayor who ordered the hit against the present mayor's family over one of their relatives running against him.(our nephew was killed in the crossfire). Think clan feuds, since there were several other "hits" over the last 10 years, including a few killed in a second hit a few years later... and of course none of which went to trial.
My stepson said no one was hurt in the latest shooting, so I guess it was a preemptive strike, a warning that if something happens to him, maybe someone could get hurt.
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