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President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai made his first official foreign visit less than a month after his inauguration in late September 2014. According to official Afghani statements, "his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping was mutually beneficial".

“With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.”…“There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.” ….Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Germany, who kept the peace...

Listening to the opinions of experts regarding the continuing sharp decline in oil prices, one is involuntarily surprised at the naive estimates, which can be summed up like this: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and several other OPEC members are reducing oil prices exclusively to take...