Is this true? Because the west complaining that Afghanistan reducing its opium production is bad for Afghanistan and most of all the west is just LOL
Again Xi meeting 2 private person in Duterte and Kissinger BUT NO Biden, Albanese, Trudeau , Sunak, Melonie , the Gardener Borrel, Kishida, Yoon and special mention Mr Modi. That's show you the contempt Xi had for these people.Interesting that you mistake respect for weakness. China is showing him the respect his seniority and past accomplishments has earned him, doesn’t mean China is going to idiotically compromise on their position and interests just because he asked.
If only Afghanistan figured out how to grow copium, then this cash crop export would easily launch Afghanistan to developed status overnight from western demand alone.Is this true? Because the west complaining that Afghanistan reducing its opium production is bad for Afghanistan and most of all the west is just LOL
More unhinged lunacy from DC:
This bit caught my eye:
"He said the U.S. should cripple China economically by disconnecting it from SWIFT, the international financial transaction settlement system. That, he suggested, would quickly bring China’s economy to a halt.
He said the U.S. should get "Treasury and OFAC [the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control] to socialize the concept of pressing this economic nuclear button. But if we really want to be effective, we press that button.""
they really should be far more worried about China banning USD transactions than US banning China from USD.View attachment 116066
The US has too many idiot lawyers as politicians. The thing about "nuke buttons" is that they can only be used once and that's it, in addition to the global economic disruption that will inevitably hurt world trade and mainly US companies because they also market their products and services in China and they want to get their deposits in US banks, in dollars, there is the problem that China is the second economy in terms of nominal GDP and the first in terms of GDP PPP, it will create a great incentive to create an alternative system as soon as possible. It will be inevitable, even US vassals cannot escape the fact that they have great economic connections with China.
More unhinged lunacy from DC:
This bit caught my eye:
"He said the U.S. should cripple China economically by disconnecting it from SWIFT, the international financial transaction settlement system. That, he suggested, would quickly bring China’s economy to a halt.
He said the U.S. should get "Treasury and OFAC [the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control] to socialize the concept of pressing this economic nuclear button. But if we really want to be effective, we press that button.""
The US has too many idiot lawyers as politicians. The thing about "nuke buttons" is that they can only be used once and that's it, in addition to the global economic disruption that will inevitably hurt world trade and mainly US companies because they also market their products and services in China and they want to get their deposits in US banks, in dollars, there is the problem that China is the second economy in terms of nominal GDP and the first in terms of GDP PPP, it will create a great incentive to create an alternative system as soon as possible. It will be inevitable, even US vassals cannot escape the fact that they have great economic connections with China.
Upon cursory reading of the said article, the person responsible for making that head inducing suggestion regarding that quote was none other than Kyle Bass, the founder and chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management, is on the China Center Advisory Board at the Hudson Institute. At a July 12 event there, “China Prepares for War: A Timeline.More unhinged lunacy from DC:
This bit caught my eye:
"He said the U.S. should cripple China economically by disconnecting it from SWIFT, the international financial transaction settlement system. That, he suggested, would quickly bring China’s economy to a halt.
He said the U.S. should get "Treasury and OFAC [the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control] to socialize the concept of pressing this economic nuclear button. But if we really want to be effective, we press that button.""
Imagine China doing this episode 8974324