Will Mar-a-Lago club enter history books?
It could be the place where Sino-US ties take the shape of a global duopoly or the march to war starts
Washington
IF you mention the name of the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria or that of the famous resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula during a conclave of historians, it is very likely that Munich and Yalta would stir more than just the images of those geographical locales.
More than seven decades after the end of World War II, Munich continues to be associated with the 1938 agreement reached in that city under which Britain and France permitted Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia, emboldening Germany's Adolph Hitler to attack Poland the next year, leading to war.
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