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GulfLander said:

So they decided to increase tension vs CN?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1858620535761993892

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Is that what they did? It sounded like random dejected babbling. "We have since taken action by calling in that application." What does it mean to call in that application? I don't even think this sentence means anything at all and it was supposed to be the most important thing he said because it was the only time he seemed to want to indicate that the UK did something that wasn't a summary of what already happened with Wang.

GulfLander said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1858502885765415274

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"Yes, there will be no words, no warning. You will not even know it happened or that we did it. We will not talk about it and just do it and you will be surprised because you would not know beforehand since we didn't talk about it before doing it. Words are useless and we will not use words, but use force. Force so large that there can be no words expressing it. If there were a word, it would have to be very long and probably a combination of the words, 'enormous,' 'gigantic,' 'huge,' 'mammoth,' 'gargantuan,' and even 'collossal' as well but there is no such word because they are without use to us against you. You will only feel our power but not hear anything from our mouths, because we're doers, not talkers. Talking is for losers and we are winners. That's why we don't talk; we just do. Like real men, we are the strong and silent kind, the kind that surprises you with actions and you will wonder why we never talked about it or warned you that we would use these weapons in Kursk in 3 days... or maybe 5 if there are some logistics issues, but that would be unknown to you since we wouldn't tell you, although at this point it looks like it may lean towards 5 because one guy, Pavil, accidentally followed the step-by-step backwards and caused a system fire, which we are trying trying to repair right now. But once it's ready, you wouldn't know because we won't tell you; you'll just have to see for yourself whether the truck leaving from warehouse 683 goes towards Kursk or the dumpyard... because we don't talk."

- Zelensky

So far the Xi's meetings with western countries this time seem pretty boring except for the meeting with Biden when he clearly laid out China's red lines. Germany's Scholz will come in and save the day by trying to make president Xi laugh.

Germany's Scholz to address drones for Russia with China's Xi​

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday he would discuss the delivery of dual-use goods with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit, following a report that a Chinese factory is producing military drones for Russia.
Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in its

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, two sources from a European intelligence agency told Reuters in a report published in September.

The European Union has repeatedly urged all countries, including China, not to provide material or other support for Russia, which began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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Earlier in the day, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Chinese drone aid "must and will have consequences".
Scholz, asked if he agreed with his minister and would discuss the issue with Xi, said he had always warned against deliveries of lethal weapons to Russia and touched on the topic of dual-use goods in such talks.

"I have always addressed the issue of so-called dual-use goods, because there are different practices, but we must not be naive," Scholz said. He added that he would also tell Xi it was unacceptable that North Korean soldiers were being deployed in the war against Ukraine, and that it was a "terrible change".

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Maybe Scholz prefer "North Korean" robot wolfs being deployed in Ukraine instead.

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So my understanding is:
1. There are countries that hold a lot of USD that would like to spend all that USD to buy things like infrastructure development, but is unable to because US doesn't export that. Saudi Arabia in this case is like that because of their oil trade.

2. China is seen as more reliable than even the US itself, so people buy up Dollar Bond from China in preference to US treasuries, hence why China's Dollar Bond has a lower yield (people willing to accept lower return, because they feel China is more likely to pay back at maturity compared to US itself).

3. China uses the dollars raised this way, plus that trillion dollar trade surplus and lend USD to countries having trouble getting enough USD to pay back loans to the US, instead of them going to IMF and asking for bail out. Meaning even during the previous high interest period US could not harvest anyone because no one was going "bankrupt" at a national level.

4. To pay back China for the USD loan, countries instead send their resources to China directly, denominated in USD but without any USD actually changing hand. Aside from USD loan countries may also borrow "USD" from China to finance infrastructure development, something that China very much exports.

End result:
1. Rich countries has somewhere reliable they can deposit their excess USD, instead of buying treasuries from US
2. Poor countries can payback USD loan even during times of high USD interest and low liquidity, they can further borrow against their resource export from China for infrastructure development
3. China uses up some of the USD surplus to buy needed resources, don't need to buy more US treasuries since USD is no longer piling up
4. America gets ALL the dollars from countries not defaulting and paying back loan on time with USD from China

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Ingenious. I wonder what the ashkenazi Jewish elites of the west and their ashkenazi Jewish high IQ thought of that? They think they’re so smart that they can fool their own deity but evidently China is superior to their desert god and doesn’t tolerate Their bs.


journalists ordered out of the room so Xi and his team can tell the British they’re going to murder the crap out of them and drink their blood from skull cups on a mountain of Anglo skulls, if they keep up with this shit.

Meanwhile, way down near the end of the article.

Tbh, I am kind of surprised. Most if not all articles nowadays are written with a specific agenda, so its weird to see the author so blatantly including facts which contradicts that agenda. Sign of the times really, nobody reads articles nowadays, people's eyes usually stop after the headline, and the modern journalism craft adapts to that reality. They're not in it to inform, but to sell outrage. Whether an article is filled with nonsense, or contradictions, or has the grammar of a rock troll, none of that matters once the share button is hit and the social media outrage machine kicks into high gear. For once that happens, the journalist's job is done.

The audience gets their dopamine hit and the journalist to eat, circle of life continues.