Wow, looks like they are being serious. I don't know the details, but I think consumer use of natural gas and energy will be small. Most will be industry.
Germany (and the rest of Europe) is about to go back to the middle ages.
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Germany (and the rest of Europe) is about to go back to the middle ages.
Hug your pets in the cold nights for warmth.
Love,
Your saxon cousin across the channel.
Yesterday you had a meeting between Katherine Tai (US trade representative) and Dan Tehan (Australian trade minister). This is the link to their press release: seems that 80% of their meeting was about targeting China's economic model from industrial subsidies, state-owned enterprises, joining forces at the WTO with like minded partners (G7) to target China. In the 19th century there was a huge agressive tendency to convert us to pious christians. These days they want to convert our economic model to neoliberalism (muh free market) among other things. Here is the link to the press release from the USTR (United State trade representative) about that meeting.
The Indo-Pacific economic framework (IPEF) is not the CTTP. That is something the USTR and US departement of commerce are planning for the future to craft rules on a plethora of issues for the Asian region and to form the region to their liking on trade, supply chains, technology, infrastructure and more. Here is a good informational albeit a bit long read.
Free read when the link does not work:
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"GERMAN GOVT SPOKESPERSON SAYS PUTIN TOLD SCHOLZ IN PHONE CALL HE STILL PLANNED TO ENACT LAW THAT GAS SUPPLIES WOULD BE PAID IN ROUBLES FROM APRIL 1"
The US twitter bots out in action:
Pretty soon it will be: I'll stop using electricity for Ukraine, I'll stop driving my car for Ukraine, I'll stop buying food for Ukraine, etc.
Pretty soon it will be: I'll stop using electricity for Ukraine, I'll stop driving my car for Ukraine, I'll stop buying food for Ukraine, etc.
Singapore is being pretty smart about it.
Look at it this way. What is the most defining feature of Singapore?
It's small. Very small.
So they can get away with a lot things. They can say what they want and really not suffer any repercussions, well, because, they are too small for anyone else to be bother otherwise.
They know, they can speak freely. Does not matter if anyone listens, but Singapore has that latitude in their diplomatic relations, and they take full advantage of it.
Also, their policy is trying to be friends with everybody, because they are too small. So they want a good relationship with China, and a harmonious relationship with the United States. Repeatedly, Singapore has point blank said to the United States publicly do not make people in ASEAN choose sides.
Of course, the United States will never listen to that. The United States demands everyone be on their side, if not publicly then privately.
However, the United States is still powerful enough, that the current world trading system was spearheaded by them, it would make sense for everybody to have some sort of relationship with the Americans.
Times are changing though.
All the others refused to go to the US, while this Singapore goes there. If he is smart he would go to China soon, even if that means going through quarantine in China.