Victor Pinchuk is the Ukrainian billionaire who paid Donald Trump's foundation $150,000 for an appearance by video link at a 2015 conference in Kiev. That payment was unearthed in a subpoena of the Trump Organization by the Mueller investigation , reported The New York Times . It is one of a number of foreign payments made to Trump and his associates under the microscope. Pinchuk, 57, made his wealth in metals, steel in particular. After achieving his doctorate in pipe design from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute, Pinchuk founded Interpipe in 1990, which makes metal products, most notably steel pipes. Forbes estimates Pinchuk's net worth to be $1.4 billion. Other assets include Credit Dnipro Bank and the media companies ICTV, Novy Kanal, and STB, according to a profile of Pinchuk in the Kyiv Post . He also owns real estate in central London. He reportedly counts the Clintons and Blairs among his friends, as well as the singer Elton John and the late Princess … [Read more...] about Victor Pinchuk is a Ukrainian billionaire who donated $150,000 to Trump’s foundation in exchange for a speech
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When Biden Went to China
On April 19, 1979, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware was in Beijing, meeting with China’s paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, when he put Washington’s nascent friendship with the Communists to the test. That Biden was sitting there at all was remarkable. The United States and China had been implacable foes for decades. In Washington, Deng and his cadres were seen as a dangerous arm of the Red menace, their conquest of China 30 years earlier bitterly lamented as its “loss” to godless Communism. In Beijing, the Americans were viewed as merciless imperialists, defenders of the Nationalists, the Communists’ mortal enemy ensconced on the island of Taiwan. In 1971, when National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger initially broke the ice with the Chinese Communists, he had to sneak into Beijing secretly. Biden arrived quite publicly as part of a five-member delegation from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His six-day tour included visits to a school, factories, and a commune. Still, … [Read more...] about When Biden Went to China
Meta’s chatbot says the company ‘exploits people’
By James Clayton Published 13 hours ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Meta's new prototype chatbot has told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg exploits its users for money. Meta says the chatbot uses artificial intelligence and can chat on "nearly any topic". Asked what the chatbot thought of the company's CEO and founder, it replied "our country is divided and he didn't help that at all". Meta said the chatbot was a prototype and might produce rude or offensive answers. "Everyone who uses Blender Bot is required to acknowledge they understand it's for research and entertainment purposes only, that it can make untrue or offensive statements, and that they agree to not intentionally trigger the bot to make offensive statements," said a Meta spokesperson. The chatbot, called BlenderBot 3 , was released to the public on Friday. The programme "learns" from … [Read more...] about Meta’s chatbot says the company ‘exploits people’