5/18/2017 4 Comments Turkish embassy attackJust the other day the Turkish prime minister had made a visit to the U.S. During the visit there were some peaceful protests going on near the Turkish embassy. While the protesters were protesting, the many security guards had attacked and beaten many of the protesters in a decently large fight that caused many of the police nearby to have to intervene and split up the fight.
I'm not a big fan of expelling ambassadors in general, but ambassadors have been expelled for less serious breaches of diplomacy, if the assailants are proven to be embassy staff. The 1961 Vienna Treaty on Diplomatic Relations, which codifies concepts such as diplomatic immunity and the inviolability of embassies Article 9 states; "The receiving state may at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the sending state that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the mission is persona non grata or that any other member of the staff of the mission is not acceptable. In any such case, the sending state shall, as appropriate, either recall the person concerned or terminate his functions with the mission." as with almost everything else in government these days, there will huffing and puffing, there will be grandstanding, there will be "outrage", there will be "determined" politicians demanding and declaring that something will be done. This will drag on for a short while...and then the "investigation" will be dragged out indefinitely, to the point that no one can even give a shit anymore, because a new fucked up thing will have happened to take our minds off of this. There was even a very well made video of the entire thing that was caught on camera. Watching it this is really shocking to watch. Clearly there was a group of men, mostly in suits, who were viciously going after certain protesters. This one man who was holding a bullhorn was absolutely rocked with front kicks to his face from several mean in suits. That type of hit could easily cause brain damage or serious neck injury. If this was in fact orchestrated or sanctioned by anyone associated with the Turkish Embassy, it's a gross breach of trust and diplomacy. SOURCE
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5/7/2017 15 Comments shanghai visasSo in a very interesting turn of events and agreement, Shanghai has invited China to buy real estate from Donald Trump's son-in-law in exchange for visas. They also barred any media from attending the event, for some reason. I think that this is a very odd event to happen, but that could also be due to the fact that I don't know much about politics in general. But I do find things odd that their governing power had profited over something such as visas. In fact, the Chinese government who are buying the land from Shanghai stated that they were only interested in buying because they were buying from a trump-son with their company. Here is a quote with some context from the article "SHANGHAI Organizers barred journalists on Sunday from a publicly advertised event in Shanghai to attract Chinese investment in a U.S. real estate project linked to the family of President Donald Trump's son-in-law in exchange for immigrant visas. Jared Kushner, whose White House portfolio includes relations with China, sold his stake in Kushner Companies to a family trust early this year. POPULAR WITH WEALTHY CHINESE. One potential investor, Sophie Xing, said a "Very important" factor in her decision to attend Sunday's event was the fact that the project was a Kushner Companies investment and that Trump's son-in-law's sister would be showing up in Shanghai." SOURCE |
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