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⬆️ @davidaugust

44% duties on #SriLanka, already reeling under Chinese #debtDiplomacy, will drive it even closer to #China.

Same with #Pakistan.

When they get crushed further and default on Chinese loans, #GwadarPort and the port in #Colombo will go to China.

#US is planning to get active in the region, starting with #DiegoGarcia to confront #Iran.

I hope #DUI hires at #Pentagon and brilliant #Harvard grads behind #Project2025 have thought through all of this.

United States President Donald Trump’s administration will review billions of dollars in federal funding for #Harvard University amid an ongoing crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests on #US campuses

> This announcement comes amid similar negotiations between the Trump administration and #Columbia #University over $400m in federal funding for the New York-based Ivy League school. Columbia recently agreed to a series of demands from the administration
aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/1/is #DonaldTrump #NAGA

Al Jazeera · Is Harvard Trump’s new target, after Columbia?By Al Jazeera Staff
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In a stmnt on Monday, the #Trump admin said it was examining ~$256M in contracts, as well as another $8.7B in what it described as “multiyear grant commitments.”

“While #Harvard’s recent actions to curb institutionalized *antisemitism*—though long overdue—are welcome, there is much more that the university must do to retain the privilege of receiving federal taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars,” Josh Gruenbaum, a snr ofcl at the #GSA, said.