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Trump Lies. China Thrives.

While Trump is pulling out of the Paris climate deal, China is steadily pulling out of coal

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Donald Trump

Thomas L. Friedman | NYT
One of the many dangers posed to our society by having a president who’s a serial liar — and who doesn’t behave like an adult, let alone a president — is that we more easily ignore him even if he happens to say something true.
Yes, some things are true even if Donald Trump believes them. I explored one of them in China last week — Trump’s charge that China is playing unfair on trade.
My visit to Beijing left me with two very strong responses. The first is that

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