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OPEC+ to consider deeper oil output cuts ahead of Russia sanctions and proposed price cap​

  • OPEC+, a group of 23 oil-producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, will convene on Sunday to decide on the next phase of production policy.
  • The highly anticipated meeting comes ahead of potentially disruptive sanctions on Russian oil, weakening crude demand in China and mounting fears of a recession.
OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers could impose deeper oil output cuts on Sunday, energy analysts said, as the influential energy alliance weighs the impact of a pending ban on Russia's crude exports and a possible price cap on Russian oil.
 

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Transformation of Japan to a missile base is starting
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Japan ruling bloc agrees on need for 'counterstrike capability'​

Dramatic deterioration in regional security environment demands response
Japan's ruling parties agreed Friday that the country should pledge to acquire a "counterstrike capability" to address the rapid deterioration of the regional security environment, heralding a major shift in the nation's security policy.
The capability, which would allow Japan to fire upon and disable enemy missiles before they are launched from foreign territory, remains controversial among legal experts, given that Japan has pursued pacifism under its war-renouncing Constitution since 1947.
Obtaining a counterstrike capability is expected to be declared in the National Security Strategy, the government's long-term security and foreign policy guidelines, scheduled to be updated by the end of this year.
The ruling bloc left some ambiguity regarding the conditions, targets and timing for counterattacks, which observers said could raise fears that Japan may attack countries arbitrarily, possibly destabilizing regional security.
 

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While speculation continues over the fate of Taiwan’s semiconductor factories in the event of an invasion by Beijing, US Ambassador O’Brien emphasises the importance of denying China the chipmaking infrastructure.

Speaking at the Richard Nixon Foundation’s
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on 10 November, former US National Security Advisor Ambassador Robert O’Brien appeared to lend credence to reports the US will disable Taiwan’s semi-conductor chip manufacturing capabilities if China attempts to reunify the island with the mainland.



If China takes Taiwan and takes those factories intact – which I don’t think we would ever allow – they have a monopoly over chips the way OPEC has a monopoly, or even more than the way OPEC has a monopoly over oil,” said O’Brien.

Scorched-earth strategy

The US Army War College Press published a paper in November 2021 recommending that the US make credible threats to destroy Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) facilities, eliminating the most important supplier of micro-processing chips to China and the World.

The paper by Jared McKinley and Peter Harris, Broken Nest: Deterring China from Invading Taiwan, became the most highly downloaded paper from the US Army War College of 2021, and suggested that the US lay plans in Taiwan for a targeted scorched-earth strategy that would render the island “not just unattractive if ever seized by force, but positively costly to maintain.”

Following months of speculation over possible US contingency planning, Bloomberg reported on 7 October that plans for worst case scenarios include evacuating Taiwan’s chip engineers, citing an unnamed US official as the source of the information.



IMHO: Essentially, US far-right ideologue O'Brien and other US neocon/neolib nutjobs suggest that the US should bomb TSMC facilities and kidnap its engineers before China can acquire them via reunification.
 

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While speculation continues over the fate of Taiwan’s semiconductor factories in the event of an invasion by Beijing, US Ambassador O’Brien emphasises the importance of denying China the chipmaking infrastructure.

Speaking at the Richard Nixon Foundation’s
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on 10 November, former US National Security Advisor Ambassador Robert O’Brien appeared to lend credence to reports the US will disable Taiwan’s semi-conductor chip manufacturing capabilities if China attempts to reunify the island with the mainland.



If China takes Taiwan and takes those factories intact – which I don’t think we would ever allow – they have a monopoly over chips the way OPEC has a monopoly, or even more than the way OPEC has a monopoly over oil,” said O’Brien.

Scorched-earth strategy

The US Army War College Press published a paper in November 2021 recommending that the US make credible threats to destroy Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) facilities, eliminating the most important supplier of micro-processing chips to China and the World.

The paper by Jared McKinley and Peter Harris, Broken Nest: Deterring China from Invading Taiwan, became the most highly downloaded paper from the US Army War College of 2021, and suggested that the US lay plans in Taiwan for a targeted scorched-earth strategy that would render the island “not just unattractive if ever seized by force, but positively costly to maintain.”

Following months of speculation over possible US contingency planning, Bloomberg reported on 7 October that plans for worst case scenarios include evacuating Taiwan’s chip engineers, citing an unnamed US official as the source of the information.



IMHO: Essentially, US far-right ideologue O'Brien and other US neocon/neolib nutjobs suggest that the US should bomb TSMC facilities and kidnap its engineers before China can acquire them via reunification.
Yup... Scorched-earth is the only strategy the US will play... maybe even literally (nuclear first strike of China etc)
 

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Xi has destroyed China by going after Chinese tech giants like with Jack Ma
Xi's authoritarian autocracy has no place for private companies like Alibaba. Under Xi, Alibaba has had
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I used Adrian Zenz math to demonstrate Alibaba's collapse.

YearAlibaba Revenue (millions)
2012 (last year of Hu Jintao)¥853,062
2022¥20,025

Since Xi took power, Alibaba has experienced a -4159.99% decline in revenue. That's literally impossible, except in Xi's China.

This is genocide.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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It's interesting how the West's propaganda narrative against China is all about painting how China is out of control of Beijing. They can't make the right intellectual decisions for what's best for the Chinese people. All of Europe's and the US's problems they're suffering that put them on dangerous economics footing today is from horrid decision making from their governments and not from outside events. Outside events only made them make the worst decisions for themselves not being the cause of them. It shows how they can't make the right decisions especially during emergency situations.
As I have already concluded the west, yes lead by the U.S. and it's forever lackeys in Europe are operating on extreme HUBRIS and total lack of understanding their self-imposed, and declared systemic rival/enemy that's China. And as Sun Tzu wisely admonished and written on his timeless Art of War:

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. "If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

As long as the current and future Chinese leaders and her people don't become complacent, conceited, arrogant, and most importantly underestimating her enemies while remaining steadfast in making China succeed in every areas of economic, technological, business, as well as military sphere, and ensuring to continue delivering to the Chinese people then China should just let her enemies crumble. They're doing a fine job of killing themselves without China's help.
 
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