Have you considered that Iran can do the exact same thing to Israel? Remember that oil tanker incident?
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Tennis is pretty much a western sport dominated by American influence, and these political moves show that very clearly
The US game plan appears to be to force countries like Pakistan and Sri Lanka who are undergoing debt crises, to get loans from the IMF-denominated in US Dollars. This will increase demand for US dollars and hence allow the US to still keep interest rates high.
Why are they doing this?
The very role of the US dollar as the reserve currency is at stake.
China on the other hand is more than happy to offload some of its US dollars...in return for hard assets like infrastructure deals as part of BRI and commodities. This is where someone like Pompeo betrays his complete ignorance by trying to make sure that IMF loans wouldnt be able to be used to pay Chinese debt- like why the hell would China accept USD when it can get hard assets like the port of Hambantota or uranium mines as payment?
And they still have mot resumed tennis tournaments in China and Hong Kong, for some made up reasons.
After which the West could find out the secrets of the S400
It is potentially dangerous if China gets a port or mine instead, since these hard assets are located in other countries and hard to protect.
It's not just to increase demand for USD. Such loans come with conditions: the borrowing government is required to dismantle protectionist measures for private industries and privatize state-owned businesses. "Global capital", which is to say, predatory Western capital, will then swoop in and buy these on the cheap. It's the modern way of colonial plundering.
The US even does this to its, ahem, allies. The UK's NHS is a big fat target for the US-UK FTA.
China was able to remove foreign spies because they could hack various American databases. But why aren't new spies replacing the old ones? Today China is much less corrupt than Iran and importantly, more ideologically secure. In Iran a large minority of the population fundamentally disagrees with the political system and it's easy to recruit traitors from these people. In China only a tiny minority wants another revolution.
US agent installed to lead another vassal