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ansy1968

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The Dedollarization wave is also arriving to Malaysia. I've never thought that it would be coming this soon. Malaysia and China are in discussions to trade directly in MYR and RMB. Great news for inflation control and sanctions-proofing.

Also, they are in discussions to setup an Asian Monetary Fund, an IMF alternative. This idea was initially mooted by Anwar Ibrahim in the 90s when he was the then Finance Minister of Malaysia (before his fall from power and imprisonment). Obviously, that idea couldn't take off in the 90s. How times have changed.

Despite Anwar used to being one of the NED's protege. Dedollarization is an obvious redline for the US. I think the NED might start doing something soon. Or maybe America is just too busy elsewhere to have time for Malaysia.
Bro do you see a Sabah angle? You know the Philippines being close to the US, willing to be a sacrifice lamb, surely it's not about an inhabitable shoal with ZERO chance of success BUT a much bigger and larger price?
 

Temstar

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ROCMND is saying Shandong CSG has transited Bashi Channel and is somewhere off the South East of Taiwan.
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This photo is taken by ROC local somewhere off the southern tip of Taiwan, may be from the CSG.

It's a shame Liaoning is in the shop at the moment, or else this would be a good opportunity to have one rounding the south and one up north.
 

siegecrossbow

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ROCMND is saying Shandong CSG has transited Bashi Channel and is somewhere off the South East of Taiwan.
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This photo is taken by ROC local somewhere off the southern tip of Taiwan, may be from the CSG.

It's a shame Liaoning is in the shop at the moment, or else this would be a good opportunity to have one rounding the south and one up north.

Taiwanese dumpling indeed
 

Sheleah

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Thought about the whole Finland joining NATO thing today, have ruminated some more items of interest:

1) The US will install THAAD in Finland along with IRBMs
2) Russia will respond either by militarising the border, dedicating More military units to steamroll Finland and potentially Sweden and the Baltics when the ballon goes up.
3) Russia may well decide to go back to Cuba as a 1960s redux
4) Finland will become poorer, dedicating so much of the budget into NATO and losing the Russian and Chinese market will weaken Finnish firms, making them easier to be swallowed up by Anglo companies.
Russia is a country in decline, with a very poor economy, nobody is interested in Russia before other markets and more prosperous and stable echo waves

militarily, the Russian deterrence has failed, and its invasion of Ukraine has only shown how overrated it was militarily.... that infamous invasion, only harms Russia, and grows NATO and the EU


Russian political and military strategists should resign and then be shot for inept
 

BoraTas

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True genius must be running the us. Not only did they drive china and Russia closer, they want to stir up trouble more locally.

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I am usually good at predicting the next US moves. But that is thanks to the US. They almost always choose the most brute force, expansionist, and Reddit way of doing things. For months I was writing that the invasion of Mexico wasn't a fringe idea and was moving more mainstream day by day. Mexico is China Jr right now. It is getting blamed for many problems of the USA.

I have another medium confidence prediction. Biden will adopt some of the same rhetoric too. So far, Biden caved into all Republican rhetorics to not give the Republican party a political attack vector. He never tries to oppose a Republican narrative.
 

ansy1968

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Russia is a country in decline, with a very poor economy, nobody is interested in Russia before other markets and more prosperous and stable echo waves


militarily, the Russian deterrence has failed, and its invasion of Ukraine has only shown how overrated it was militarily.... that infamous invasion, only harms Russia, and grows NATO and the EU


Russian political and military strategists should resign and then be shot for inept
And yet is able to humiliate the Collective West and make them suffer economically. That is a definition of a great power.
 

Biscuits

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This was painful to watch! Are we now entering the century of humiliation of Germany?!
German vice chancellor: “I feel deeply ashamed”
We too … we’re deeply ashamed because of you puppet Habeck!

Imagine being a Ukrainian, watching Finland get into NATO almost overnight while your country gets used as an anti-Russian kamikaze.
When Italy wants to join Germany, this is a pact between 2 sovereign nations. It's different when Poland tries to join the Allies, that's a violation of the Axis based Neuordnung.
 

xypher

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FP is a Chinese propaganda media that smears the supapowa and implies that China has far superior economy & military :mad::mad::mad:

In June 2020, Indian and Chinese troops clashed along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Galwan Valley—the worst such incident in decades. The standoff remains unresolved. As geopolitical tensions rise, China’s superior military strength and proximity to India enhance the intensity and immediacy of its threat.
India has
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to China along their disputed border since the 2020 clash, and another border skirmish further east last December shows that its deterrence is breaking down. In addition to the BJP’s
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, New Delhi’s aversion to speaking openly about Beijing’s threat stems from a few factors, from the growing power differential between the countries to a lack of political will within the BJP.
Second, India does not have a clear plan for how to manage potential escalation with China if New Delhi does respond with force to Beijing’s so-called salami slicing strategy along the border. China is the superior power, creating a dilemma for India: It cannot escalate with the assurance of a win, and it cannot deescalate without losses. India last faced a superior adversary in a war
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. Then, as now, the opponent was China—and there was a less-pronounced power differential. Today, the fight could easily escalate from a skirmish along the LAC to unfamiliar domains of cyber and hybrid warfare. New Delhi likely recognizes this possibility.
Economic logic also underpins India’s lack of acknowledgement of the threat from China. India has become the world’s fifth-largest economy in part with the help of cheap products sourced from China, from fertilizers to data processing units. Imposing a trade ban on Beijing in retaliation for its aggression at the border is likely to be counterproductive, as economist Arvind Panagariya recently
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in the Economic Times. During the 2021-22 fiscal year, Chinese exports to India accounted for 15.4 percent of Indian imports but just 2.8 percent of total Chinese exports. It’s clear that New Delhi would face greater losses than Beijing if it imposed sanctions.
Either way, India’s lesson learned is that it should refrain from provoking China; even acknowledging the ongoing threat from Beijing could fall into the category of provocation in New Delhi’s eyes.
 
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