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China to offer Taliban tariff-free trade as it inches closer to isolated resource-rich regime
BEIJING, China — China will offer the Taliban tariff-free access to its vast construction, energy and consumer sectors, Beijing’s envoy to Afghanistan said on Thursday, as the ailing resource-rich but diplomatically-isolated regime looks to build up its markets. Beijing has sought to develop its ties with the Taliban since they took control of Afghanistan in…
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Uncertainty reigns in an election closer ‘than any I have ever seen’
James Carville was on the Upper East Side of Manhattan recently when he kept being stopped by anxious New Yorkers begging the famed Cajun political sage for some kind of guidance about how the November election would turn out. He had nothing for them. “They firmly believed that I had some kind of secret knowledge,”…