…it’s the regular presence in the hotel’s Presidential Suite and the ambassadorial residence of senior U.S. leaders, plus the foreign dignitaries who visit them, that experts say will almost certainly trigger a national security review.McClatchy
Chinese bid to buy Big Apple’s fabled Waldorf Astoria under scrutiny for national security risks
James Rosen | McClatchy Washington Bureau
Also Putin Allies Said Angling to Wrest Paper From WSJ, FT by Irina Reznik, Ilya Khrennikov and Henry Meyer at Bloomberg.
“The Kremlin sees Vedomosti’s shareholders as foreign governments,” the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Tatiana Lysova, said in an interview. “The WSJ equals the U.S. and the FT the U.K.…"
Vedomosti’s influence among Russia’s elite is way out of proportion to its relatively small circulation of 75,000, said Dozhd TV founder Alexander Vinokurov, who considered bidding for Sanoma’s Russian business before deciding it was too risky.
‘‘The elite read Vedomosti every day, it’s exactly the readership you need to influence a country,” Vinokurov said. “It’s a critically important media outlet.”
At a meeting of Russian newspaper editors in Moscow in September 2013, Putin’s deputy chief of staff, Vyacheslav Volodin, accused Vedomosti of serving foreign interests, according to Lysova, the paper’s chief editor.
Just like when the US threw a fit about chinese telecom products being used in US. They banned it because they 'might have a backdoor.' Then we got Snowden and found out all US made software and hardware have back doors for US spy agencies.
ReplyDeleteI love how the US always accidentally tips their hat on what type of surveillance the US engages in. We don't want you to own hotels in the US because all those US hotel chains are facades for US spying.