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...Precisely because, as Jim Mattis, the former US defence secretary, suggested in 2017, the US cannot fight two major wars simultaneously, it requires a strong European pillar within Nato....
...In contrast to Jim Mattis, his former boss, John Bolton, and indeed anyone else who has left the administration, Spencer had the decency to lay out in simple terms what happened....
...They view the “dirty dossier” compiled by Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent, as credible raw intelligence. That judgment has hardened in the past three weeks....
...“I don’t see how Mattis and Bolton are going to get along on policy,” said Christopher Hill, a former US diplomat. “Mattis is a very respectful and engaging person; John Bolton is not.”...
...“I think Tillerson leaned on Mattis. The difference was Tillerson didn’t trust his building and Mattis depends on his building,” said a state department official....
...Secretary of defence Jim Mattis is due to visit China next month. It was not clear whether that visit will still go ahead in light of the cancellation....
...— Christopher Granville, TS Lombard (from a 18th Jan report)...
...“China has been very active in recent years placing and cultivating people at the grassroots political levels of western democracies and helping them to reach positions of influence,” said Christopher Johnson...
...South Korea’s spy agency issued the warning on Monday after James Mattis, the US defence secretary, warned of a “massive military response” to Pyongyang’s sixth and largest nuclear test....
...He has nominated three generals to cabinet positions, including James “Mad Dog” Mattis as secretary of defence. Trump admires soldiers generally, although he was not one himself....
...Her speech to Republican Congress members in Philadelphia on Thursday paid homage to the Thatcher-Reagan relationship of the 1980s as well as deploying what former UK ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher...
...“The taxes have reduced quite heavily – both the labour and profit taxes,” says Matti Pennanen, Oulu’s mayor....
...Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg’s heavy-smoking prime minister, arrives on Tuesday for talks with Matti Vanhanen, the clean-living Finnish prime minister, who extols the virtue of healthy country living....
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