The Washington Post recently reported that Chinese officials have thought about a possible role for American mediation and even discussed it with American officials.

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The idea, according to The Washington Post, is to lure newly-moneyed Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian shoppers to the U.S. The method?

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All this is the more piquant for the fact that it follows so soon after revelations that computer systems at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other major media organizations have been penetrated by Chinese agents.

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