<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">China Study Group</span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Date: </span></font></b></font><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline !important; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline !important; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Thursday, </span></font></b></font></div></b></font></div></b><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline !important; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">June 13</span></font></b></font></div></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline !important; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Time: 7:00 - 8:30 </span></font></b></font></div></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; display: inline !important; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline !important; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">p.m.</span></font></b></span></b></font></div></b></div></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline !important; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Place: Center for Marxist Education, 550 Mass. Ave, 2nd floor, Central Square in Cambridge (near Central Sq. T red line)</span></font></b></font></div></b></div></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">China's President Xi Jinping and US President Obama hold summit meeting in California: review and analysis</span></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">China's Xi Jinping is visiting the US the first week in June soon after assuming China's highest offices. An informal summit will be held in California; the sooner than anticipated meeting creates some optimism for improvement in relations in an atmosphere of US charges of Chinese cyberattacks and Chinese concerns about the US "pivot" strategy of encirclement. The China Study Group will review Xi's visit to the US and assess the results and impact and US/China relations.</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Upcoming event:</span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">"Lessons of Palestine" </span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Speaker: Wadi'h Halabi</span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Sat. June 22 @ 3 p.m.</span></font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></b></div>
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