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Influence what? Get which favours?

The case of Kushner is different. He was a government official. He was in relation with S.A. (it has been documented in links given by Placeholder, if I remember well) when he was working for the W.H. and he got money from S.A. There is clearly a conflict of interest. And that's what house committees should do: investigate government officials. I don't know if there was something illegal, but there is an obvious conflict of interest. Members of Biden's family are private people involved in private business. They were not government officials, their business and their partners did not have any transaction with the government, ex the Chinese firm did not participate in a government contract, did not get a difficult to obtain drilling licence, etc..

I have no esteem for Hunter. As many other sons of well-known families he's using his family name. He's not that incompetent (graduate lawyer from Yale with years of experience), but is likely overselling himself. However, it is not a crime.

In brief, you have nothing.

Ahem! Boris Johnson and good faith....

Charts from your second linked source

So it was not cash, and it was not to a presidential candidate.....

Some people don't know they can be identified by their IP address.....

*Deleted post edited out* Of course, It's complex to analyse and what you mention is a good example of how it can be misused. Actually one issue was that Romney did not release 5 years of tax returns as the others did, he released only two years. In particular, the last year was missing. The problem was that he did not initially release enough tax returns to debunk Reid's claim. (That's how the WaPo article you linked debunks his claim, by looking at the other tax returns). https://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/us-election-2012/2012-09-22/mitt-romney-reveals-2011-tax-return/4275266 Additionally, it seems that Romney has since become a fan of releasing tax returns! ???? https://www.npr.org/2016/05/11/477700943/mitt-romney-trumps-decision-to-not-release-tax-returns-is-disqualifying BTW, which precise "cash" to presidential candidates are you not targeting?

I checked the Taste Atlas website. According to them, the five best rated dishes of all kind worldwide are, by order, pizza, pastel de Belen and nasi parang, butter garlic Nan and yakiniku! Obviously a gourmet only website! ????

Yes, definitely. In particular, she would have been tough from the start with China. https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-on-chinas-xi-we-love-each-other/

It could start with making the disclosure of their tax returns mandatory. Of course, I am not targeting anyone! ????

Excellent factual post! As you already know, don't expect these facts will be taken into account by this poster.

Not two years, one year! And why one year? Because no copy was given before to another media than the NYPost. Complain about it to Giuliani! At this time, it had all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation (Giuliani known for contacts with Russian operatives., copy only given to NYPost, experience of 2016 elections). Anyway, Comer has nothing, as he himself said: “It is unclear what services were provided to obtain this exorbitant amount of money". Only blah, blah! Show the goods or shut up, Comer!

That's the eternal problem with some MAGA posters. They are told they need to link sources so they quickly link some articles without really reading them.

Do you have some reliable information about how risky it is (for the Chinese)? Knowing them, I wouldn't bet they took much risk without guarantors and/or a significant interest rate, ex. the railway project.

Well, in some countries, not having tight ethical contrainsts may be an advantage for the Chinese, at least on short-term. However, on a longer term, they may be perceived as a neo-colonialist country by the local populations.

The Chinese have been very smart in articulating their influence policy. For example, the belt and road is a brilliant marketing and communication initiative. The U.S., and also European countries are lacking such a coherent and highly visible policy (while they probably spend more than the Chinese. Anyway, they are also starting that it's not all nice with the Chinese. For example, read: https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/areas-in-africa-with-more-chinese-backed-projects-were-more-likely-to-experience-protests

“It is unclear what services were provided to obtain this exorbitant amount of money". In brief, he has nothing.

It's not comparable at all. Trump is not being investigated for sex crime.

And some people are arguing that NATO was a threat to Russia.....

Bonkers predictions? ???? The current climate change is following the forecasts made during the early 2000's Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right/

Turkey, that was during the 60's. It has nothing to do with the post-Soviet NATO policy.

It's impressive how he fought the swamp by being pro-big business, i.e. by giving tax cuts to the rich.... not to mention his shameless nepotism.

NATO was not a threat to Russia. There was no intent to attack or threaten Russia. Putin is a sore loser. He cannot accept this simple fact: no European country wants to be associated with Russia. One reason being that he failed to develop his country and Russia has no soft power. Another is that they have suffered from Russian (and Soviet) imperialism in the past The Iraq war was different but it doesn't really matter. Everybody would agree with you that it was not a "good war". It was a scam war. Even at that time, several NATO countries were against it (ex. France). Both invasions are horrendous.