Senate passes Asian hate crime bill 94-1

Hawley votes against anti-Asian hate crime bill After that vote, Hawley told reporters he was concerned the measure was “hugely open-ended” and that it “mandates all this data collection in expansive categories that the federal government will collect and maintain.” …

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Building U.S. – Asian Teamwork Against China

New administrations that differ in partisan orientation from their predecessors have a habit of reorienting American foreign policy. George W. Bush, until September 11, 2001, planned to shift America’s focus back to great-power competition, even dispatching Donald Rumsfeld, at that point …

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Chinese Fishermen Wage Hybrid War On Asian Seas

by stockboardasset The U.S. Department of Defense’s annual report to Congress, released in August, details military and security developments of the Chinese armed forces, drew attention to the “People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia” (PAFMM), a weaponized fishing fleet funded by Beijing — a …

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1997 Asian financial crisis – Thailand > Malaysia > Indonesia > South Korea > Russia debt default > Long Term Capital Managament…derivative implosion, economy on brink of collapse.

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1029339254030299136 What we have witnessed in Emerging Markets is simply a continuation of what we saw with Equity Vol and very briefly in Italy. It is also the part of the same thing as the Crypto and Chinese equities corrections. …

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Asian Financial Crisis v2.0

via theguardian: Are brewing exchange rate and debt crises in Argentina and Turkey localised events without broader implications? Or are they early warning signs of deeper fragilities in bloated global debt markets that are being exposed as the US Federal Reserve continues …

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