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at Putin terms, “a unipolar world order.” China’s President Xi Jinping expressed a very similar view, saying in
egic objective: countering the United States’ domination of international relations, or what Putin terms, “a unipolar world order.” China’s President Xi Jinping expressed a very similar view, saying in 2014 in a thinly-veiled reference to the United States, stating that any American attempt to “monopolize” in
9", would have certainly been keenly interested in the unfolding Snowden affair. After all, Obama had publically put on his agenda that week calling Xi to task for Chinese cyber espionage. Such a charge was undermined by Snowden’s globally-publicized accusation that the United States was engaged in m
osed NSA surveillance: James Bamford writing for Wired magazine, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian and Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation. He also gave a televised interview to Brian Williams of NBC News in which he explained that since he had no access to the NSA documents in Russia, h
the United States. Because the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, had just met with Presi- dent Obama in C
right of vetoing any extraditions for any reason in the formal 1999 agreement between Hong Kong and the United States. Because the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, had just met with Presi- dent Obama in California, China also had an interest in avoiding embarrassing public demonstrations on behalf of Snowden. A
ght not be totally coincidental. Snowden blamed high officials in the U.S. government who pur- posely “trapped him” in Russia. He told the editor of The Nation, “I’m in exile. My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled” and “chose to keep me in Russia.” He repeated that assertion over
egic objective: countering the United States’ domination of international relations, or what Putin terms “a unipolar world order.” China’s president, Xi Jinping, expressed a very similar view, saying in 2014 in a thinly veiled reference to the United States that any attempt to “monopolize” international affai
the first time in Rancho Mirage, California, on June 8, would have been keenly interested in the unfolding Snowden affair. Obama had publicly called Xi to task for Chinese cyber espionage, and now that charge was undermined by Snowden’s accusation that the United States was engaged in massive cyber e
ca, because the CIA can oper- ate with impunity down there,” he explained in the previously cited interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation, in 2014. He had already discussed the likelihood of his being captured in Ecuador with Assange before his departure for Moscow. He later told Alan R
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