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Caroline Glick: A Desperate Emmanuel Macron Attacks Donald Trump

French President Emmanuel Macron has apparently decided that with his approval ratings in the toilet, his best bet for a political resurgence is to attack the United States. This isn’t a bad move. Hatred for America has been a powerful mobilizing force in France since shortly after the American army liberated the French from German occupation in 1944.

Trump and Macron (Christophe Petit-Tesson / AFP / Getty)

China Makes Its Move at the U.N. General Assembly

The 2018 United Nations General Assembly has to make do without an appearance by Chinese President Xi Jinping, but there is a heavy Chinese presence at the event, which Beijing – and critics of the Trump administration’s foreign policy – see as a golden opportunity for China to assume the mantle of globalist champion and displace the United States as the world’s most influential nation.

The Associated Press

The Google Tape: 5 Top Quotes from VP Kent Walker

Google’s Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer, Kent Walker, made a number of newsworthy comments during the leaked video of a Google all-hands “TGIF” meeting shortly after President Trump’s 2016 victory, which was released by Breitbart Tech this week.

The Associated Press

Hayward — Obama in South Africa: 9/11, Rise of Putin Were ‘Backlash’ Against Globalization

Former President Barack Obama told an audience at a Nelson Mandela Foundation event in South Africa Tuesday marking the 100th anniversary of Mandela’s birth that income inequality and other disruptions caused by a “backlash” against globalization and liberalization were factors in the 9/11 attacks, the resurgence of populism, Chinese aggression, and the rise of President Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama, left, delivers his speech at the 16th Annual Nelson Ma