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caudaceus

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Overbom

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Pakistan is finishing the year with $5.82 billion foreign exchange reserves.
Subtract $4 billion of Saudi and Chinese deposits which Pakistan isn't allowed to touch.

In the end, Pakistan will start the new year with having $1.82 foreign exchange reserves.
Anyone wanna bet in how many months Pakistan will get bankrupt?
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Overbom

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I am truly surprised by this news
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1 year on, EU alternative to China’s belt and road fails to deliver​

  • Global Gateway has delivered little in concrete projects, while confusion reigns in Brussels and beyond about the initiative
  • Up to US$318 billion was promised to build infrastructure in Africa and Asia but it is unclear how much has been disbursed
So far, Global Gateway has delivered plenty of hype, but little in terms of concrete projects, while confusion reigns in Brussels and beyond about what the initiative actually is.
At a hearing in the European Parliament last month, lawmakers pressed officials for details, only to learn that none of the €300 billion would be “new”.
“Global Gateway does not bring new financial means – there is no additional money when it comes to the EU level,” said Vincent Grimaud, an acting director in the commission’s department for international partnerships.
The statement sparked incredulity from members of the parliament.

Lol even their CIA-Parliament is dunking on the EU
“There’s no new money. And I’ve always held the view that if there’s no new money, there’s no new policy,” said Barry Andrews, an Irish lawmaker with the centrist Renew group.
“This is a communications exercise. It’s a strategy to put together what was already going to happen and present it as something new. And if our partners are tricked by this, then more fool them.”
Hildegard Bentele, a German member from the centre-right European People’s Party, said she had been trying to find German companies who are “part of this adventure”, but had failed to locate any.
“If I talk to journalists, journalists are asking me what are these Global Gateway projects? If I go on the website of the European Commission, I do not find it – this is really difficult,” she said.
 

Biscuits

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A brilliant success for the Americans. They have achieved their strategic goals
Like how the opium war was a brilliant success for the Qing Royal family, because it dealt with all their immediate domestic enemies?

You don't win a cold war by hoarding regime power at the cost of your overall power. Any move that doesn't gather more comphrensive economic, military or industrial power for your side is a losing move.
 

Overbom

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Like how the opium war was a brilliant success for the Qing Royal family, because it dealt with all their immediate domestic enemies?

You don't win a cold war by hoarding regime power at the cost of your overall power. Any move that doesn't gather more comphrensive economic, military or industrial power for your side is a losing move.
The goal was America in, Germany down, Russia out. I consider all three of these goals achieved for the US

Your points are also correct, but my initial post was only about the strategic goal that the US set
 

gelgoog

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In the end, Pakistan will start the new year with having $1.82 foreign exchange reserves.
Anyone wanna bet in how many months Pakistan will get bankrupt?
That is the whole plan. The US overthrows the government, puts a stooge in place, the stooge makes terrible economic decisions, and then they call the IMF to loan money to cover the shortfall so they can strip mine Pakistani industrial and market assets. Same thing has happened in Ukraine and a zillion other places. Large parts of farmland in Ukraine are now owned by US farming conglomerates.

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Some quotes:
"Zelensky’s government began land privatization and enabled economic actors outside Ukraine to purchase agricultural land.
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In the year following the reform, three international consortia with American capital became the largest buyers in Ukraine. The Australian National Journal wrote that these three multinationals purchased a total of 17 million hectares of farmland, which represented 28 percent of arable land, or nearly a third. The three giants are Cargill, DuPont and Monsanto.
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The Ukrainian puppet government allowed three American companies to buy more agricultural land than there is in all of Italy.”

Now you know why the US is so dead set into allowing Ukraine into exporting their produce.
 
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supercat

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Taiwan probably will be reunited with China by the 2030s. So who cares?

Clever idea - to make Tokyo, instead of Hawaii, a target:

South Korea's Indo Pacific Strategy Report is completely different from Japan's regarding China.

Xi may visit Russia in Spring 2023.

Putin, Xi Pledge Deeper Ties Amid Tensions With West​

Russia’s president says he expects his Chinese counterpart to visit his country in spring 2023

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pmc

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Xi may visit Russia in Spring 2023.

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This trip if happened will be considered provocation for countries in Europa. imagine next several months of cruise missile strikes.
Most CIS leaders when visit Russia they called it informal meetings it is to keep low profile.
The problem for China is it cannot announce some thing that is publicly visible and give confidence about its engineering products.
like stationing 6 to 8 AWACS that works on 24hr cycle in Belarus for months.
 
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