I really want the US to sanction any of the big banks of China. It will be fun to observe the effects of that on the world economy, the shock would be magnitudes worse than the sanctions on Russia. Depolarization rate would accelerate...
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Well they may watch a bit too much wuxia drama. You sometimes see two masters just look each other but there is a battle in their head.
If the Russian guy was in charge of economy in 90's then he is pure garbage.
Indeed. Blockading the Straits of Malacca and the other straits of Indonesia will result in terrible economic damage to ASEAN. Only Covid has comparable damage. Still, we have observed European leaders shrugging their shoulders when Nord Stream blew up. Or the leaders of Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf States giving only lip service as Israel massacres 30000 Palestinians. So what could we expect from the leaders of ASEAN? From what I suspect, there are ASEAN nations who prefer the status quo or just couldn't give a damn. These nations will either side with the US or just do nothing. Then there are other ASEAN nations who are in a development frenzy right now, helped extensively by China. These nations I think, has at least some motivation to help China out to break a blockade of the SoM.
So what happens to the other nations outside of ASEAN? Their economy will suffer of course. But what would they do? What could we expect the Middle Eastern nations to do? Apart from the Shia Axis nations, the others don't even care about the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza. In the last decade, they were busy trying to kill Shia Muslims Syria. So apart from Iran, and its allies, the rest are hopeless. India? India is one of the most enthusiastic nations to blockade the SoM in order to choke China. India can do stupid and suicidal things to its economy just to poke at its enemies. So India is gonna be a perpetrator or facilitator of the blockade. What about Africa? African nations trade more with China than ASEAN. If anything, trade from Africa could be redirected to ASEAN via China.
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It seems "putting tariffs on Chinese products" has truly become the next "being tough on the Soviet Union". It's for show, they're doing it for the votes. There's no plan nor organisation behind it.
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Anwar is surprisingly based. There used to be a time he was considered a western plant by some people
Can't imagine what megawar Biden fights in his pea brain...
The EV tariffs are there to save Tesla.
The battery tariffs are there to kill Tesla.
The solar tariffs are there to kill what is left of US solar installation market and jobs.
The Steel and Aluminium tariff are there to save 1,000 union jobs and kill 100,000 jobs in industries that need cheap access to those raw materials.