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Value-free investing: China and Afghanistan

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China Is All About the Extreme Dangers of Islamic Radicalism

China is pushing the old fashioned line that every country should have its own choice of political system. How does china square that sage then with the attitude it's taken to its own moslem community inside the country and some fundamentalism outside it? It's fascinating. When you saw the chinese foreign minister recently photographed next to very senior taliban leaders who came to visit him at the end of july, there was a kind of real shock in a chinese social media. And you've even seen some ineresting things some state media can of testing outline instead of presenting the talaban as a swell bunch of guys who are all about the poor. So in the medium a long term

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