From Birch Gold Group It’s been a little while since we examined China’s aim to weaken the dollar through forming its own state-controlled digital currency (also called cryptocurrency). But now it appears that China is moving forward with its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), …
China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan Shows Need for Renewed US Commitment to Internet Governance. “Huawei’s plans for 6G and beyond make U.S. concerns over 5G look paltry: Huawei is proposing a fundamental internet redesign, which it calls “New IP,” designed to …
On April 13th, the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released [pdf] its annual threat assessment report. The report reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providing the nuanced, independent, …
Earlier this week, in response to an escalating dispute in the area between China and the Philippines, the U.S. sent an aircraft carrier to the South China Sea. The move coincided with the U.S. and the Philippines planning military exercises, which …
The Market Is ‘Completely Ignoring’ Serious Risks with U.S.-China Relations: Stephen Roach Warns As Wall Street focuses on earnings season, former Morgan Stanley Asia Chairman Stephen Roach sees danger lurking abroad. Biden Seeks Closer Ties with Japan as the U.S. …
Beijing has been increasingly rattling sabers–and perhaps trying to provoke a crisis. Earlier this week, China sent twenty-five warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), the largest incursion of its airspace to date. There has been no comment from …
First: Purchase from domestic producers The failure of Molycorp demonstrates why markets alone can’t solve supply chain issues and why deep investments are needed to enhance the long-term sustainability of private REE ventures. During its rise, Molycorp benefitted from China’s restriction on exports to …
4:30 in Guest Matt Bracken lays out how it will snowball. AO
U.S. partners South Korea and Taiwan joined China in opposing Japan’s plan to release radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean starting in about two years. The three Asian governments, all with coastlines …
The old paradigm is crashing folks. . . It's going to be global. It's going to be biblical. https://t.co/UjUHO8tsts — Green Eggs-n-Sam (@HamEggsnSam) April 13, 2021 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-13/china-huarong-s-deepening-bond-rout-pushes-yield-to-record-23?sref=frV97TwV Informative Comments follow: Jim @MusserJim China’s to big to fail? “China Huarong’s biggest …
(Bloomberg) — The Biden administration is stepping up scrutiny of China’s plans for a digital yuan, with some officials concerned the move could kick off a long-term bid to topple the dollar as the world’s dominant reserve currency, according to …
* US Navy recently added a mask to the branch’s official logo on Twitter * Critics piled on mocking the ‘woke’ move saying adversaries would laugh * Other service branches have not yet followed suit in updating their logos https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9459317/US-Navy-draws-mockery-adding-mask-eagle-service-branchs-logo-Twitter.html View post on …
The top objective of U.S. foreign policy – and the primary purpose of our Armed Forces – is to keep America and our citizens safe. Anything that needlessly increases the risk to our safety should be avoided and all that …
by Shaun Richards This morning has brought something which raised a bit of a wry smile. It came from the People’s Bank of China and the emphasis is mine. At the end of March, the balance of broad money (M2) …
Via The Strategic Culture Foundation, All people of the world should hope that a multipolar world vision prevails and the destructive American ideology fails – definitively. There is a close parallel in the way the Biden administration is riling up …
From Birch Gold Group It’s been a little while since we examined China’s aim to weaken the dollar through forming its own state-controlled digital currency (also called cryptocurrency). But now it appears that China is moving forward with its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), …
By Tsvetana Paraskova China has set a world record for deep-sea drilling in the South China Sea, Chinese state media reported, while tensions in the disputed area are rising. According to the Xinhua news agency, Chinese scientists aboard a marine research …
New York Post Columnist Miranda Devine says evidence on Hunter Biden’s laptop indicates “strongly” that President Joe Biden is “compromised” through his family with President Xi Jinping. “One night I’m sitting at home in this apartment in New York that …
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-may-be-using-bitcoin-as-financial-weapon-against-u-s-says-peter-thiel-11617837743 https://news.yahoo.com/peter-thiel-suggests-bitcoin-may-214400523.html Thiel said China would like to see two global reserve currencies, rather than the dollar being the default reserve currency. But China doesn’t want its renminbi to fill that role, and in the past has used the euro …
Credit in China is a major leading indicator of U.S. growth. Inflation is coming has been the signal sent from bond markets. More money moving into the stock market. Value stocks have seen more inflows and tech stocks and other …
By Tsvetana Paraskova Despite commitments to become a net-zero emission economy by 2060, China—the world’s biggest carbon emitter—commissioned more coal-fired capacity last year than the rest of the world retired, a new report showed this week. China’s coal boom in 2020 more …
Entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc” Vivek Ramaswamy claimed China is using “woke” politics to manipulate Americans during a Wednesday appearance on “Fox and Friends.” China has positioned itself as “uniquely off-limits” for identification as the origin country for the novel coronavirus despite …
20 years ago a Chinese jet crashed into a US “spy plane,” over the South China Sea, the so-called Hainan Island Incident. It was a diplomatic disaster for President George W. Bush and a propaganda victory for the Chinese Communist …
Pretty good vid, lays out the geopolitics of the situation with a minimum of nonsense. “Top US military officials believe that China could invade Taiwan within the next six years owing to the fact that America is distracted by domestic …
The Pentagon must move faster to standardize its data, adopt cloud services and integrate AI into operations if it is to keep ahead of China’s prowess in artificial intelligence, the head of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, or JAIC, said …
By Chris Black Surveillance capitalism is an imminent danger Silicon Valley’s surveillance capitalism will be far more enduring – and more dangerous – than China’s archaic “techno-totalitarianism.” It is interesting to compare GAFA (acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) …
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 4/5/21 Last week Reuters broke the story how Indian physical gold demand had surged 471% in March compared to a year ago. Exclusive: India’s March gold imports surge 471% to a record 160 …
By Alex Kimani For years, the U.S. and China have waged war over technology, trade, and capital markets. Tensions between the world’s leading economies reached a fever pitch during former president Trump’s term in office, leading to escalating tariffs and trade restrictions. …
Leaked Emails Confirm UN Gives Names of Dissidents to the CCP Chinascope According to an exclusive report from The Epoch Times, leaked emails proved that UN human-rights officials give the names of Chinese dissidents to Beijing before these dissidents are …
