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Dec 13, 2024 | 
gnet-research.org | Adam Rousselle
IntroductionExtremist groups increasingly target ethnic Tajiks for recruitment through sophisticated online propaganda campaigns, resulting in some of the world’s most horrific terrorist attacks over the past year, including those in Kerman, Iran and Moscow, Russia.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Adam Rousselle
Chinese smuggling rings have been instrumental in the illegal trafficking of rosewood. They also provide support to terrorist groups in West Africa and Mozambique. For centuries, cultures around the globe have prized items made from rosewood due to its fine-grained durability and rich coloring. Nowhere has this been more true than in China, where rosewood furniture, with its intense cherry red hues, carries cultural associations of prosperity and life-affirming energy.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Adam Rousselle
For centuries, cultures around the globe have prized items made from rosewood due to its fine-grained durability and rich coloring. Nowhere has this been more true than in China, where rosewood furniture, with its intense cherry red hues, carries cultural associations of prosperity and life-affirming energy.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
gnet-research.org | Adam Rousselle
IntroductionOn 17 September, al-Qaeda-affiliated Malian terror group Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) carried out a series of attacks in the country’s capital of Bamako, targeting a military police training camp and the Modibo Keita International Airport. One anonymous security source claimed that 77 people died in these attacks, with 255 more wounded.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |Adam Rousselle |Nick Catoggio |Charles Hilu
Trump’s pick for ambassador to the Jewish state has drawn on his Christian faith to shape his views of the country. Published November 21, 2024 When former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee first traveled to Israel as a teenager in 1973, on the eve of the Yom Kippur War, he felt immediately at home. “And let me be very clear, it wasn’t because at that time Israel was a wonderfully developed and progressive nation.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Alex Demas |Kevin Williamson |Adam Rousselle
In postliberal America, you need to find happiness where you can. Something I’ve been enjoying lately is watching critics declare Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth unfit for office because, allegedly, they’re sex pests. My friends: This country just made Donald Trump president. Again. After he was found liable in a civil trial for sexual abuse.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Scott Lincicome |Alex Demas |Kevin Williamson |Adam Rousselle
There will likely be tariffs, but some policies might be an improvement over Biden. Published November 20, 2024 Now that we’ve had a couple weeks to digest the 2024 presidential election, it’s as good a time as any to examine how U.S. trade policy might change during a second Trump term—and what’d happen to the U.S. and global economies as a result.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Demas |David Drucker |Adam Rousselle |Mary Trimble
Did the Kamala Harris campaign spend almost $600 million on staff during the presidential election? Several viral posts claim that Harris’ campaign committee spent more than 50 times as much on staff as Trump’s campaign committee. “Wonder who is painting a better picture for America?” reads the earliest version of the post, which was shared on X by podcaster Justin Blinson on November 8.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Adam Rousselle |John Gustavsson |Scott Lincicome |Kevin Williamson
Halloween was widely celebrated in Shanghai, perhaps more than in Western cities. Thousands of costumed young people flocked to the city’s art deco core—a remnant of its jazz-age colonial past—joining dozens of parties set to the tune of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and other festive staples. Even the timing was perfect, as late October comes with cool breezes and golden ginkgo leaves beneath azure skies—a reprieve from Shanghai’s notoriously hot summers and damp, frigid winters.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
jamestown.org | Adam Rousselle
Executive Summary:Weapons manufactured in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are increasingly falling into the hands of militant groups across Africa, with key contributors being state-owned defense contractors like Norinco. However, it is unclear how the weapons reach these groups.
