Edward Wong
@ewong
Diplomatic Correspondent @nytimes. Author of "At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China." Harvard Nieman Fellow. Taught at Princeton & UC Berkeley.
Joined May 2009
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Rubio is joking here, but it would be an appropriate plot twist if the 77-year-old NATO alliance dissolves in Ankara this week because of the Trump-Infantino call and the US-Belgium match tonight.
Rubio on Balogun: “Maybe [it’s] turning into an international incident, I don’t know. Maybe we’ll bring it up at NATO tomorrow with the Belgians and everybody else...”
“If you’re Belgium, why would you want to play a game and win a match, and then everyone will argue you didn’t really win it"
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