Memo to China: You Look Silly When You Threaten to Dump Treasuries
If China intends to cov the West, it needs to pick things it could do that would incur real damage. Selling Treasuries it not that.
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Why Give a Damn About Pelosi? How About the Nuclear Strike We Would Have Made on China Over Formosa?
In 1958, the US considered a nuclear strike against China if China’s planned conquest of Formosa went well.
Read more...Endgame Taiwan? US Plans Further China Eyepoking with Planned Military Transit of the Taiwan Strait
China and the US are making threat displays over Taiwan. Lovely.
Read more...Michael Hudson: American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama
American policies have become astonishingly obvious about not simply putting the US first, but also exploiting supposed partners to do so.
Read more...Xi and Biden Talk Past Each Other in Over 2 Hour Phone Call
The Xi-Biden call confirmed that despite keeping communications lines open, the two superpowers are at an impasse.
Read more...The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight: Western Leaders Bungle Russia Gas Supply, Barmy Oil Price Cap, and Appear Unable Even to Line Up Meetings
The harder you look at Western scheming against Russia (and China) the worse it appears.
Read more...One China Eyepoking Too Far: Biden Signals US Not Backing Down on Pelosi Taiwan Visit as China Promises Military Response
Taiwan is becoming yet another case study in advanced imperial decline. Too bad the world is along for the ride.
Read more...Behind the Crisis in Sri Lanka – How Political and Economic Mismanagement Combined to Plunge Nation into Turmoil
Some background on the escalating crisis in Sri Lanka and what might come next.
Read more...Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War
Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
Read more...Michael Hudson on Finance Capitalism’s Self-Destructive Nature
Michael Hudson rings the changes on a favorite theme: the differences between the financial capitalism and industrial capitalism systems
Read more...Dollar Diplomacy: Michael Hudson and Steve Keen on Real Progressives
A wide-ranging and free-wheeling discussion of money, oligarchy, trade, China, the future of the dollar….with an eye to MMT.
Read more...What Happens When Big Brother Meets Big Tech
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke warns that as fundamental privacy rights vanish, your personal data can and will be used against you.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The End of Western Civilization – Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place
How neolibearlism and idealization of markets is the latest chapter in the West’s destructive drift towards rule by oligarchs and rentiers.
Read more...FBI Now Joins in China Warmongering in Bizarre Speech in London with MI5 About Taiwan, Intellectual Property Theft
The US is really really out to heat things up with China…
Read more...Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements
free trade agreements may increasingly become economic weapons in the new Cold War, disrupting earlier globalization.
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