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No Chinese CEOs on state dinner guest list
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... The White House list of more than 130 invited guests for the state dinner includes plenty of American tech giants, but Chinese CEOs are conspicuously missing.
U.S. and Chinese planners did discuss including several executives from some notable Chinese companies, according to a person familiar with the planning for the state visit who was not authorized to comment publicly.
One obstacle that came up during the negotiations for the state visits was that the U.S. side was slow to suggest protocols and clarify what roles the Chinese CEOs would have in the state visit, the person said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment. ...
@#34 ... How did the poll define socialism? There seem to be some very, very different flavors of it. ...
Exactly.
The poll merely asks about the view of socialism.
A question that particular poll (kudos to Gallup) has been asking for 15 years.
So now, when the GOP tries to tag a Democrat as a socialist, that tag seems to have less of an effect than 15 years ago when this poll was first started.
So, maybe the more appropriate question you should be asking is along the lines of ... when Republicans try to tag Democrats as socialists, how do those Republicans define Socialism?
Maybe, giving away government money to citizens?
Oh wait ...
Trump Wants to Give Out $5,000 Checks.
www.nytimes.com
@#1 ... "The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations, after Trump promised fossil fuel bigwigs at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser that he'd do anything and everything they wanted, for the right price," Whitehouse said in a statement. ...
From the cited article ...
... That's according to "The Billion Dollar Deal: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Bought the Trump Administration, Cashed In, and Left Americans to Pay the Price," a [PDF] report released Thursday by US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). ...
A link to the cited PDF report is here: www.epw.senate.gov
@#40 ... It produces people happy about being miserable. ...
They seem to be quite happy. And say so. Frequently, when asked.
Maybe you are letting your envy get in the way of your opinion?