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Interesting analysis @ The Hill from this guy:

Joseph Bosco served as China country director for the secretary of Defense from 2005 to 2006 and as Asia-Pacific director of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief from 2009 to 2010.  He previously taught a graduate seminar in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. He is a nonresident fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies and the Institute for Taiwan-American Studies and has held nonresident appointments in the Asia-Pacific program at the Atlantic Council and the Southeast Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

So yeah, it's Taiwan perspective, so wondering if Bolton is thinking this, too. Helpful because the alternative of focusing on Trump antics and the behind the scenes people trying to control his antics somehow doesn't really get you far.

A leakers story is now out; I just post, you decide which side they are on:

‘A lot of dial tones’: The inside story of how Trump’s North Korea summit fell apart

by Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker & Josh Dawsey @ WashingtonPost.com, May 24 at 7:14 PM

[...] This behind-the-scenes account of Trump’s decision to cancel the Singapore summit is based on interviews with seven administration officials, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss a sensitive matter [....]