Indeed, China can promote their new fuel conversion technology such as Ammonia while Russia, Turkmenistan (through China), Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia provides the immediate backstop from their stocks. Not to mention all the drilling in the SCS. Might even bring the Philippines closer if this drags on long enough.
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Nah, I've watched quite a few of his videos, I disagree with a lot of what he says but he doesn't fit the archetype of a spy at all. He fits instead the archetype of an idealistic Chinese liberal who spent many adult years living in the west and became disillusioned, much like Ai Weiwei.
In his other videos, he states many times that Putin is a strategic mastermind, that the West is corrupt and collapsing, that the US is going to invade Iran and lose and that civil war is coming. Like many Chinese immigrants, the longer they spend in the West the more they realize that they don't really fit in. Just last year after his channel blew up he had an incident in Canada where he spanked one of his kids in a park, was citizen arrested by bystanders and park staff, then was questioned by the police. He felt humiliated, but after he posted the story instead of sympathy he caught a lot of flak from his viewers.
When I'm in a naivety competition and my opponent is a Gulf diplomat:
Europe will not rule Africa. If they tried it won't go as planned. The world will be decentralized, not under blocs.
Guess Elders of Zion wasn't a forgery, after all.
Totally agree with this. Doesn't seem as if China is doing enough. Lately they seem to be targeting the Buddhist clergy far more than the underground churches. They should look closely at South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia where there are many of this evangelicals. When their numbers are large enough they always meddle and change society and government.
Abrahamic faiths are like that in general, they tend to be political ideologies wrapped under the guise of religion. They present themselves as harmless religions and lull you into a false sense of security then warp the brains of its adherents. I'm far from a Marxist but he was correct when he said religion is opium for the masses.
It was what that financial guy Louis Vincent Gave said a few months ago.
Everyone knew that the Americans wanted to cut rates, and will cut rates.
The only problem would be in the case when they were faced with a policy constraint that would not allow them to cut rates, is what Mr. Gave said.
To clarify, in a case of stagflation, the Fed may not be able to cut rates.
Cutting rates would boost the economy.
That does not seem possible now.
That spike in oil prices, will raise the cost of energy, the cost of food, the cost of insurance due to this volatile, and expectations of inflation will fuel inflation. This means everything is going up in price. Once it goes up, due to price stickiness, it stays there at that higher price.
With higher prices for the basic stuff people, there is less money around. Less disposable income means the economy starts to tank. While inflation remains stubbornly high.
This stagflation is like the worst possible outcome, that that is the outcome that should happen now.
All because of this Iran war.
The American economy was not that strong lately. Now it is coming down with a case of a severe flu. And who knows how long that will last.
That is why I do not understand this war. Not only the US lost all their bases in the Middle East, wars usually are good for the economy but not this one due to the military situation pertaining to the Arabian Sea and the oil that needs to transit there, which could make a mild case of stagflation into a unrelenting case of stagflation and recession. It is beyond stupid. Yet here we are.
No wonder the Chinese lowered their growth rate targets to 4.5% as much of the world is going to go into recession this coming year if this war does not end soon and oil prices retreat back to $50 bucks a barrel.
America has no good options here. They failed to collapse the Iranian government on the initial strike so they're left with either escalating (and likely losing midterms due to oil prices) or pulling out (and admitting defeat)
Everybody is gonna get hit economically but China will come out on top because they're dominating renewables
Everybody is gonna get hit economically but China will come out on top because they're dominating renewables
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