John Bolton

DGAP-News: 'United in diversity': Media start-up Forum.eu signs The New York Times and launches exclusive opinion piece by John Bolton and Sigmar Gabriel

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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Berlin, 19.01.2021 The digital media platform Forum.eu starts this new year out by publishing pieces from The New York Times.

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  • Berlin, 19.01.2021 The digital media platform Forum.eu starts this new year out by publishing pieces from The New York Times.
  • From now on, users have access to articles from the US daily newspaper, on topics relevant to Europe, in several languages, and can debate them on the platform.
  • The first piece is by John Bolton, Trump's former Security Advisor, and a piece by former German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is to follow.
  • "In addition, they get high-quality editorial translations of selected articles from us to use for themselves, as well as access to content by international opinion leaders."

New book reveals Trump sees Meng arrest as about leverage, not justice

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Sunday, June 28, 2020

In The Room Where it Happened, John Bolton writes: "At the December 7 [2018] White House Christmas dinner, Trump raised Meng's arrest, riffing about how much pressure this put on China."

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  • In The Room Where it Happened, John Bolton writes: "At the December 7 [2018] White House Christmas dinner, Trump raised Meng's arrest, riffing about how much pressure this put on China."
  • According to Bolton, Trump viewed Ms. Meng as a prominent Chinese citizen "the Ivanka Trump of China," in the President's words whose freedom could be a powerful bargaining chip in trade negotiations with China.
  • As Bolton puts it: "Trump believed everything was open in trade negotiations."
  • We call on the Trump administration to immediately withdraw the charges against Meng Wanzhou.