Archived Reuters: Thank Trump for returning 3 American detainees from North Korea (reuters.com)
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Archived Reuters: Thank Trump for returning 3 American detainees from North Korea (reuters.com)
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[–] futileimpedance [S] ago (edited ago)
Full disclosure: I meant to use this as an opportunity to shit on liberal media in the US. However, besides CNN not mentioning the president in the title, and even Fox fails to mention it at all. All of them, however, made sure to mention the face to face meeting Kim had with Chinese Emperor Xi Jin Ping.
Of course, that made me curious as to how CCTV (China's state approved news agency) reported on this issue. I find it quite strange that the Chinese do not mention Emperor Xi in their article at all..
So, what does it all mean, Basil? I'm going to throw out the conjecture that Trump's phone call with Xi was a discussion on who will take the lead on negotiations. The results of that discussion are simply too difficult to discuss, but this is obviously a planned narrative between China and the US.
Edit: grammar and spacing
Edit part Deux: I just noticed the Chinese article mentions the goal of their detention was "medical treatment and ideological re-education." Not sure if that's new to US news. Pretty interesting nonetheless.