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A slew of other issues that have piled up, of which at the moment I can stand to mention only two, each involving a rising Republican politician.The one involving Jon Huntsman Jr., in his last days as U.S. Ambassador to China, was his unexpected but heartening public condemnation today of the wave of arrests, crackdown, and repression so dramatically taking place in China at the moment. His statement was unexpected, in that ambassadors usually avoid "meddling" in host-country affairs this way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], especially with one foot out the door; and it was heartening,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because what has been happening in China over the past six weeks is the most unsettling step backward there in a very long time. More on the crackdown itself soon. It's too bad, again, that Huntsman muddied the end of his ambassadorship with possible presidential-campaign positioning, because in this latest statement he should be seen as speaking for the whole American nation and not any partisan subset.The one involving Rep. Paul Ryan is of course his

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