China is about to allow a President for Life--The Debate is now continuing in Beijing as we went to press with this late edition of Notations. One view is noted below as the debate began: FT View: The west can't sit idle as Xi Jinping claims new, immense authority over China https://t.co/aThd9qTbIO
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) February 26, 2018 This is as China is moving aggressively with "Belts & Bolts":
Banks are rushing to seize opportunities just as many western political leaders are refusing to endorse China's 'new silk road' project https://t.co/jwRIbe1UdN
It is #Oscar2018 later on this evening. This is as Hollywood has undergone a profound transformation--and one of the nominees is the Last Men in Aleppo | POV | PBS that seeks to see the Syrian War through the eyes of volunteer rescue workers called the White Helmets, Last Men in Aleppo allows viewers to experience the daily life, death, and struggle in the streets, where they are fighting for sanity in a city where war has become the norm. It won the 2017 Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. As we wen to press, the siege of Ghoutta continued onward with no end in sight--what was also unfortuante in our view was that the Director of the Last Men in Aleppo was not granted a Visa to attend the Oscars. We also understand that only two of the White Helmets featured in this memo have only sruvived.
We are pleased to feature this for our first edition of Notations with this snapshot of the state of the Trump Presidency and the profound challenges faced in light of the challenges faced by Mr Kushner and the late breaking developments on the Mueller Investigation as American crediblity has suffered on the streets of the Middle East:
