https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3004348/jacinda-ardern-makes-progress-china-does-huawei-have-cause

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern returned home from Beijing on Tuesday having made progress on trade, climate change and a way forward on Huawei.

During the short visit, agreements were signed on scientific cooperation, finance, agriculture and taxation on Monday, and the two sides also agreed to push forward an update of their free-trade deal.

As well as meeting China’s leaders, Ardern opened New Zealand’s new NZ$50 million (US$34 million) Chinese embassy to manage relations with the country’s largest trading partner, calling it “one of our most significant diplomatic spaces”.

The trip could mark a turning point in the Huawei saga, after it was banned by New Zealand allies, and Five Eyes intelligence network members, the United States and Australia.

In November, New Zealand’s spy agency blocked local telecoms company Spark from using Huawei equipment, citing national security risks. But in Beijing, Ardern insisted Huawei had not been banned in New Zealand.

https://apnews.com/bf529722860749a7b60dea53ffcaf798

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation’s board of directors has changed the organization’s name to The George and Barbara Bush Foundation .

The organization said Tuesday that the board approved the change. The move reflects the organization’s intention to support not only the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum and the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, but also the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation and Points of Light.

The former president died in late November. The former first lady died last April.

Also, four new board members are being added. Jean Becker, George Bush’s post-White House chief of staff, is one of them. The other three are children of the former first couple: Neil Bush, Marvin Bush and Doro Bush Koch.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/03/nancy_pelosis_perv_problem_139943.html

If these were women accusing Republican men of such behavior, Pelosi would be issuing scathing recriminations, not jokey etiquette tips. But Nan's nonchalance about her fellow Democrats' invasions of personal space is par for her cad-supporting course. I remind my readers of Pelosi's twisted track record:

In 2017, she defiantly stood by accused groper John Conyers calling him an "icon" who "has done a great deal to protect women" and downplaying his secret sexual harassment settlement with a former female staffer – one of three former employees alleging sexual abuse.

In 2013, Pelosi refused to call on her old pal and former Democratic mayor Bob Filner of San Diego to resign after multiple women accused him of harassment and assault. One staffer claimed Filner had ordered her to "work without her panties on." Others alleged he forcibly kissed them. Another said she had contacted Democratic higher-ups in California about a half-dozen women. "What goes on in San Diego is up to the people of San Diego. I'm not here to make any judgments," Pelosi declared.

In 2011, Pelosi refused to condemn disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner until his interactions with an underage girl in Delaware were exposed by conservative bloggers and confirmed by police. Only then did Pelosi rush from behind to lead the demands for Weiner's resignation.

In 2010, then New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa resigned amid a sordid sexual harassment scandal involving young low-paid male staffers he allegedly lured to his Capitol Hill playhouse for "tickle fights." Pelosi's office had been informed months before, by a staffer of former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, of Massa's predatory and harassing behavior with multiple congressional employees.

Also in 2011, seven-term liberal congressman and former Democratic Rep. David Wu of Oregon was exposed by his own staffers, who revolted against their drunk-texting, tiger costume-wearing boss and pressured him to seek psychiatric help

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> it's Dresden in there

KEK