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This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C.

from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Welcome to Deep State Radio. This is Rosa Brooks, and I am serving as moderator today because David Rothkopf, our fearless leader, has decided to spend the rest of his day on the New Jersey Turnpike,

which is an attractive destination, and many millions of Americans have also decided to spend their day on the New Jersey Turnpike,

and they and David are together right now enjoying the festive pre-Thanksgiving spirit.

However, we have the rest of our usual crew here with us.

We have Enlust, the national editor, US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times, David Sanger, White House,

a national sturdy correspondent and a senior writer at the New York Times, and of course Corey Shocky, a senior fellow,

and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

And this is our annual Thanksgiving episode where we wonder if anybody has anything at all to be thankful about.

So we thought what we would do today is talk a little bit about world leaders, and what, if anything, they have to be thankful about.

And let me start with you, Corey, and ask you, what those Chinese presidents eating thing have to be thankful about this here?

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