Around the time Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen, who last month infamously spoke to Trump putting the long-standing "One China" policy in jeopardy, made a controversial stopover in Houston, China's state-run tabloid Global Times warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that China would "take revenge" if he reneged on the one-China policy.
The collapse in the Turkish Lira, which has been relentless since last summer's failed coup, has only accelerated in 2017, and especially this morning, when the Turkish currency tumbled more than 2% against the dollar - its single worst day since the July 19 military coup attempt - sliding as low as 3.73, down over 5% so far in 2017, and over 23% in the past 12 months.
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It should be noted that quite often the most interesting arms contracts escape media attention. That’s how it was in 2016.
Signing a multi-billion-dollar military aid package between the United States and Israel and the subsequent White House approval for long-awaited fighter sales to the Middle East hit the radar screen.
The Turkish government has accused the US of orchestrating the recent Istanbul nightclub terrorist attack which left 39 people dead. President Erdogan has warned that his administration may revise their decision to allow a US air base in Incirlik as a result of nefarious US activities against the Turkish regime. Pravdareport.com reports: In an interview with Sputnik, authoritative security expert Jevad Galiyashevich noted that the US administration of Barack Obama was violating the laws of its own country, while President Obama was arming terrorists instead of fighting with them.
Donald Trump plans to charge billionaire elitist George Soros as a “threat to national security” in the United States when he takes office later this month. According to the Kremlin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was asked by the Trump Transition Team to provide “any and all” files relating to Soros – citing legal authority from the 6 March 2014 Executive Order signed by President Obama, entitled Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine: “I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that the actions and policies of persons that unde