5/8: "Fresh intelligence:" and "Lab leak" say the Energy Department and the FBI: : 5/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin (Author) (Originally posted March 23, 2021)
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U.S. officials declined to give details on the fresh intelligence and analysis that led the Energy Department to change its position. They added that while the Energy Department and the FBI each say an unintended lab leak is most likely, they arrived at those conclusions for different reasons.....
A senior U.S. intelligence official confirmed that the intelligence community had conducted the update, whose existence hasn’t previously been reported. This official added that it was done in light of new intelligence, further study of academic literature and consultation with experts outside government.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a
5/8: "Fresh intelligence:" and "Lab leak" say the Energy Department and the FBI: : 5/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin (Author) (Originally posted March 23, 2021)
https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Under-Heaven-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0358393248
By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office.
Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour.
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| 1:44.1 | The Washington Post Global Opinions columnist is also the author Josh Rogan of his new book Chaos Under Heaven. |
| 1:50.4 | Trump, Xi and the battle for the 21st century. |
| 1:54.0 | 2017 is the two opponents, the United States and China, deciding how they're going to go forward between the hawks, |
| 2:03.2 | the super hawks, Wall Street, those who want a diplomatic solution to what appears to be a trade imbalance to the new president, President Trump. |
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