The NYT report includes this gem of Orientalism:

One official directive warns people to look for 75 signs of "religious extremism," including behavior that would be considered unremarkable in other countries: growing a beard as a young man, praying in public places outside mosques or even abruptly trying to give up smoking or drinking.

The writers of the New York Times seem to have little knowledge of their own city. In 2007 the New York Police Department published a study on Islamist radicalization that remarked on exactly those points:

As these individuals adopt Salafism, typical signatures include:

• Becoming alienated from one's former life; affiliating with like-minded individuals
• Joining or forming a group of like-minded individuals in a quest to strengthen one's dedication to Salafi Islam
• Giving up cigarettes, drinking, gambling and urban hip-hop gangster clothes.
• Wearing traditional Islamic clothing, growing a beard
• Becoming involved in social activism and community issues

The Chinese government probably copied its list of signs of religious radicalization from the NYPD and other 'western' sources. A French law prohibits public praying in the street. Other European states enacted laws against the wearing of certain religious attire. The Chinese do not lead in such analysis, they follow 'western' examples.

China is developing new rail and road connection throughout Eurasia as part of its strategic One Belt One Road initiative.

Xinjiang province is larger than Great Britain, France, Spain, and Germany combined. It is a mostly uninhabitable landscape of mountainous and desert terrain with a tiny population of some 24 million of which only 45% are Muslim Uyghurs of Turkic ethnicity. It would be rather unimportant outer province for China were it not at the core of the new Silk road connections.

It is a vulnerable point. An established insurgency in the area could seriously interrupt the new strategic communication lines.

Chinese strategists believe that the U.S., with the help of its Turkish, Saudi and Pakistani friends, was and is behind the Islamic and ethnic radicalization of the Turkic population in the province. It is not by chance that Turkey transferred Uyghur Jihadis from Xinjiang via Thailand to Syria to hone their fighting abilities. That the New York Times publishes about the Xinjiang re-education project, and also offers the report in Mandarin, will only confirm that suspicion. China is determined to end such interference.

Air and ground attacks on Syria's Idlib Province must stop "immediately" and a cease-fire must be established in the rebel-held area, Turkish television quoted the country's defense minister as saying.

The broadcaster NTV quoted Hulusi Akar as making the comments on September 10, after Russia and Iran rejected Turkey's call for a cease-fire in Idlib, the rebels' remaining major stronghold in Syria.

The email was forwarded by two Google vice presidents to more staff members throughout the company. ... Eliana admitted Google used its power to ensure millions of people saw certain hashtags and social media impressions. The goal was to influence behavior during the election.

Google also supported partners like Voto Latino to offer rides to polling stations.

Google described this as a "silent donation" to the far left group.

"The fund has already studied more than 100 potential projects, of which it is currently considering five in detail - in such areas as new materials, information protection technologies, virtual reality, the development of new generation industrial equipment, innovative oilfield services. The fund plans to announce the first deal by the end of the year," it said.

The RDIF also said that the leading companies of Russia and China will boost bilateral investment.

"Today there are 73 projects with a total worth of over $100 billion in industrial, infrastructural, mining, agricultural and other sectors. Thanks to the work of the committee, seven projects worth $4.6 billion have already been implemented," the RDIF said.

• Russia prepares for its 2nd Eastern Economic Forum
• Russia's Eastern Economic Forum expected to attract over $20bn in foreign investment
• Nearly $44 billion in deals signed at Russia's Eastern Economic Forum
• Positive progress: Russia's Eastern Economic Forum to attract over $15bn in investment
• Putin and Abe want a positive 'New Era' in Russia-Japan relations

I received an unsolicited email from Stephan Halper who I thought was a Cambridge professor inviting me. So he reached out and said I want you to write a paper for me. I joined him about a week later over drinks at the hotel in London where all of the sudden he pulls out his phone. Everyone has phones when they meet with me and he places it in front of him and he begins to tell me, "So George, of course hacking is in the interest of your campaign. Of course, the Russians are helping you." These open-ended questions, and, "Of course, you're probably involved in it too. That's correct right?"

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The mysterious "disappearance" of my Asia Times column - titled "'Resistance' runs amok in the US Deep Throat War" - has led me to some more juicy back-and-forth with my own Deep Throats in the Beltway.

The column is languishing in some digital black hole but seems to be found when people enter the title above.

And that brings us back to Trump - and Russia.

Detente with Russia: that is the main reason that Clapper and Brennan are after Trump and why Brennan called him a traitor. For all his cosmic inconsistencies, Trump is right that US intel is behind the "anonymous" NYT Op-Ed.

Some of my own Deep Throats in the Beltway are reliving the time when Nixon acknowledged his - innate? - cowardice as he exited the White House. Nixon famously told a friend that, "I am getting out while the getting is good and I have no intention of ending as Jack." He was referring to Jack Kennedy - who was killed essentially over detente with the then USSR.

And one of the Deep Throats - an insider who, let's say, "saw the light" - has come up with the classiest of quotes:

"They have Trump on nothing - and what was Watergate in comparison to 9-11, Pearl Harbor or the Gulf of Tonkin, just to name a few of our Operation Gladios?"

This is going to get WAY nastier.

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