@Kolas_Yotaka Who empowers DPP - The USA and CiA ? Such a naive statement. Proof first that you can work independently and separately from your western master, then you can talk abt China influence..
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Prince n Duke
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Prince n Duke
@PrinceDuke98
finance and engineering background - observer of nature, people & politics (emphasis on US, China, East & South East Asia)
Singapore Katılım Kasım 2021
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China empowers KMT’s chairman Cheng because they want to see Taiwanese fight each other. We shouldn’t so easily give them what they want. It’s the challenge of political leaders in Taiwan to find a better way to work out our differences.
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@TayorUyghur Your name is fake and your story is fake. All CIA shill propaganda..
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She is just another CCP instrument in Taiwan.
Without any guarantees of freedom, democratic norms how can Taiwan survive under CCP rule?
Once CCP take over Taiwan, it breaks its promised and crush on very different voices as it did in Hongkong.
Bloomberg TV@BloombergTV
Cheng Li-wun discusses her hope to meet President Trump following her Beijing visit, aiming to convey Taiwan's commitment to avoiding conflict and securing lasting cross-strait peace bloom.bg/4dg1FgD
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@henrysgao The 9 western colonizing nations who immorally exporting opiums to China. In exchange for tea porcelain and silver They did this with gunboat like thugs - you moron don’t know your own ancestor history. (Or you think Gao ancestors is from England ?
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"US armed Al Qaeda, created ISIS, unleashed a global terror network -just to overthrow Assad and protect Israel"
- Joe Kent
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South Vietnam didn’t fall because it was beaten. It fell because it was betrayed.
Fifty-one years ago today, April 30, 1975, the last American helicopter lifted off the Saigon embassy roof.
We had won. Nixon and Kissinger’s Paris Peace Accords forced the North to recognize South Vietnam’s sovereignty. America promised air power and supplies if they violated it. The ARVN was finally ready to defend itself.
Then Watergate. Democrats won huge majorities in 1974. They slashed aid by over 75%, banned any U.S. response to Soviet rearmament of the North, and watched as the Communists violated every agreement.
No bullets. No gas. No tires for their Jeeps.
South Vietnam collapsed—not from lack of courage, but abandonment by the same Democrats that sent our sons to die there a decade earlier.
What followed wasn’t peace. It was hell.
The Domino Theory wasn’t wrong. Cambodia and Laos fell. Pol Pot—praised by the American left as “Cambodia’s George Washington”—murdered 1/3 of his own people.
A million sent to re-education camps in Vietnam. Half a million murdered. Two million boat people fled; nearly half a million drowned.
I was eight, standing in a church hall in Arkansas, looking up at a South Vietnamese flag on a refugee’s lapel. I just wept and said “I’m sorry” over and over.
We should all still be sorry.
This wasn’t inevitable. It was engineered in Washington.
Just like the fall of China in 1949. Christian anti-Communist leaders betrayed by Democrats in both cases—Chiang by Truman, Diem by JFK—then the deluge.
Nixon was right in No More Vietnams: When America fights, fight to win with overwhelming force. Never send troops without vital interests at stake. Once committed, keep your word to allies. Peace comes through strength, not weakness.
We forgot those lessons.
In 2021, Biden gave us Saigon 2.0 in Kabul. Allies abandoned. Billions in weapons to the enemy.
Desperate people clinging to aircraft. Women enslaved again. Credibility shattered. Then came Ukraine.
It’s dangerous to be an American ally when Democrats hold power.
The men who fought in Vietnam—American and South Vietnamese—were heroes. They didn’t lose. They were betrayed.
Fifty years on, remember why Saigon fell. Honor that noble cause. Resolve: No more Vietnams. No more Afghanistans. No more betrayals.
America must lead with strength, clarity, and resolve. Freedom isn’t free. The price of abandoning it is always paid in blood.
I wrote a longer essay detailing this. You should read it. Link in my bio.
Never forget.
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@zriboua @Kanthan2030 You represent the Zionist who is trying to deflect the issue: Israel lead hubristic and catastrophic war. China been buying oil from Iran for decades…
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My latest
China's Machinery in Iran Meets Washington's Economic Fury
Understanding the US Treasury's latest sanctions
For years, the IRGC sustained itself through shell companies, rotating vessel identities, and shadow banking corridors that kept oil revenue flowing far from formal financial channels, turning every prior sanctions round into a temporary inconvenience absorbed and rerouted within months. Washington kept targeting individual nodes while leaving the broader network intact, which gave Tehran reasonable confidence that Epic Fury’s ceasefire, like every pause before it, would open another window for recovery.
That calculation is wrong this time, because the cost of each passing week compounds rather than eases, with Treasury’s action targeting the evasion architecture itself rather than its individual components, ensuring that what Tehran reads as time purchased is in fact institutional capacity being permanently stripped away. That architecture survived as long as it did for one reason: China built the financial infrastructure to sustain it.
zinebriboua.com/p/chinas-machi…
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@USTreasury You can sell arms to Taiwan and China can’t buy oil from Iran ?
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Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control today alerted financial institutions to the sanctions risks associated with independent “teapot” oil refineries in China, which import Iranian oil to ultimately benefit the Iranian regime, military, and weapons programs. Financial institutions should be on notice that Treasury will leverage its full range of tools and authorities to hold accountable financial institutions that facilitate these transactions.
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@SenatorBanks @POTUS @SecScottBessent It’s your US illegal war , unprovoked invasion is what’s the issue, and you did it on behalf of your Israel lobby master. China buying Iranian oil has been so for the last decades, peacefully
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China is responsible for purchasing 90% of sanctioned Iranian oil.
@POTUS and @SecScottBessent are putting the Chinese Communist Party on notice for funding the largest state sponsor of terrorism and I stand with them as we exert maximum pressure on this rogue regime.
Treasury Department@USTreasury
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control today alerted financial institutions to the sanctions risks associated with independent “teapot” oil refineries in China, which import Iranian oil to ultimately benefit the Iranian regime, military, and weapons programs. Financial institutions should be on notice that Treasury will leverage its full range of tools and authorities to hold accountable financial institutions that facilitate these transactions.
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@DrEliDavid This will profit only the big oil companies at the expense of common people. All this is due to Israel malign intent on taking others land and American Folly.
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The ongoing naval blockade:
🇮🇷 Iran's economy nears collapse
—> America wins
🇨🇳 China's economy suffers
—> America wins
🇪🇺 Europe's economy suffers
—> America punishes them for their betrayal —> America wins
🇺🇸 America becomes the largest oil exporter in the world
—> America wins
Hedgeye@Hedgeye
🇺🇸 U.S. oil exports hit a record 6.4 million barrels per day
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@Michael7ucci But then again you aren’t that white… may be white wannabe…
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@Michael7ucci Racist.. white supremacist can’t stand rising China.
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Chinese nationals in USA are coerced into espionage under their 2017 Nat'l Intel Law.
And it gets worse. China pushes intel assets into our universities, which are full of spies.
These CCP agents interfere in state legislatures *on the regular.*
I describe one example👇
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Congressman Chris Smith says it bluntly: Xi Jinping and the CCP are getting away with crimes against humanity through organ harvesting.
And making billions doing it.
“Xi Jinping is literally getting away with murdering young people to steal their organs.”
“He should be at the Hague for crimes against humanity for doing that.”
“What they’ve done… is cruelty on steroids.”
“The people deserve better in China than a dictatorship that exploits them every day of the week.”
@Heritage
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@NewshamGrant Many of your forefathers died fighting Japanese, and the Japanese got nuclear bombed twice…it was also quite notoriously brutal and bloody toward its neighbours in east Asia and south east Asia.
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Japan is a threat to nobody. For the last 80 years it's been a responsible, humane nation. The CCP killed far more Chinese people (in peacetime and good weather) than the IJA could have dreamed of. The fact millions of Chinese visit Japan yearly - and would like to live there - says plenty.
Gordon G. Chang@GordonGChang
China’s anti-Japan rhetoric is not resonating because Japan has been peaceful in recent decades and China has not been. What is especially worrying is that China has not adjusted its rhetoric when it can see that it’s not working.
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@Kathleen_Tyson_ @izakaminska @gwabi Ms Kaminska appears unaware that the "rules-based order" on which she bases her argument has been roundly debunked as a scam by people in the east AND the west, including Canada's head of state
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All these clever takes miss one fundamental point. Thanks to sanctions China has been operating as an oil purchasing monopsony for at least five years. This means it’s been drawing a huge economic dividend in energy terms from not adhering to the rules based order.
This boon has helped power and intensify its commitment to running an increasingly dysfunctional export oriented model, which - despite the huge economic advantage this gives it versus the rest of the world - is still failing to deliver.
Stocks or no stocks, the Iran crisis means it is now being forced to pay the global price for oil. That means all its relative price advantages are disappearing.
Meanwhile, whatever stocks it draws down, from now on it will have to replace at the global price.
Why is this important? Because its mega commodity stockpile is less a function of strategic thinking and more a function of its need for CREDIT.
China builds stockpiles because it has to park the rent it extracts through mercantilistic means from the FREE world in something that holds its value.
Since the Chinese state can’t simultaneously keep signaling that the dollar is trash and openly investing in dollars, it has to use more creative means. One way, as emphasised by Brad Setser, is to get its private institutions and banks to do it on its behalf.
But the other way is to park all that value in commodity reserves that are surplus to its immediate throughput needs.
That is the trick at hand. Without stockpiles or dollar reserves it would have a credit problem. With them, it is neither efficient or wealthy. It’s just a sovereign nation with an obesity problem on its balance sheet. This is ironic because its people still don’t have enough to eat, and it couldn’t even commit to helping out its BRI dependents with that oil despite their huge size.
If it gets a dollar or capital backstop, it probably can begin to share some of those reserves with the BRI nations. And that, I suspect, is why it is now moving to undo its export ban.
America of course is in exactly the opposite position.
James E. Thorne@DrJStrategy
Food for thought. The age of cartel scarcity is ending The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC is not just another quarrel inside an oil cartel. It is a move in the New Great Game taking shape across energy, trade routes and strategic commodities. For years, Abu Dhabi accepted the logic of collective restraint. Saudi Arabia would lead, Russia would amplify, and other producers would sacrifice volume for price. That bargain worked while members shared the same goal: defend oil prices without destroying demand. The UAE no longer fits the model. It has invested heavily to expand capacity, while OPEC+ quotas have limited its ability to monetise those barrels. ADNOC has targeted crude production capacity of 5mn barrels a day by 2027, while UAE production has often been restrained by OPEC+ agreements (EIA). Abu Dhabi wants to convert oil in the ground into sovereign wealth while demand still has value. The cartel wants patience. The UAE wants velocity. That is the structural shift. The oil market is moving from price defence to market-share capture. The UAE is not leaving OPEC because it has lost faith in oil. It is leaving because it wants to sell more of it while the world still needs it. Investors should separate the shock from the regime. In the short term, the Iran conflict drives prices because it determines whether barrels can move through Hormuz. If tankers cannot sail, spare capacity is theoretical. War risk, insurance costs and inventories set the front-month price. But Iran does not define the long-term price structure. Wars create spikes; structures determine regimes. The structural story is bearish: OPEC is less cohesive, the UAE is more willing to chase volume, and the US is now the resource superpower OPEC once feared. The US became the world’s top crude producer in 2018 and produced a record 13.2mn barrels a day in 2024 (EIA). For Donald Trump, the rupture is useful. A weaker OPEC means Saudi Arabia and Russia have less ability to manage prices. Lower oil is a tax cut for US households and a weapon against inflation. But Hormuz limits the victory lap. Trump can pressure cartels; he cannot repeal geography. China sees the same map differently. It remains exposed to Gulf flows and needs reliable suppliers. Beijing has relied on discounted Iranian and Venezuelan barrels, but those supplies carry sanctions, shipping and insurance risk. A freer UAE can offer something more valuable than cheap crude: reliability. This is the New Great Game in energy form. The US wants lower cartel power. China wants secure supply. The UAE wants autonomy and relevance in both capitals. Saudi Arabia wants to preserve cartel authority. Russia wants disruption to keep energy geopolitics in play. The age of cartel scarcity is giving way to the age of market-share oil. The marginal barrel is no longer merely an economic unit. It is a geopolitical instrument.
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@SenatorSlotkin TikTok was not abt US national security - it’s abt enriching the Priviledge wealthy few , the supporters of Israel lobby. In reality it’s a big loss to US people voice and real democracy
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Chinese cars have video, 3D mapping, and geolocation capabilities – and all of that data is sent back to Beijing. It's like a driving surveillance package. That is a risk to both our economic and national security.
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@ShadowofEzra @DOualaalou Every ocassion is used as a reason to enrich the MIC friends and rob taxpayers money.
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Lindsey Graham says he will force Americans to pay for the new White House ballroom by introducing a bill that would authorize $400 million in U.S. taxpayer money.
He says that underneath the ballroom there will be a lot of “military stuff.”
“The sooner we get the ballroom built, the better it is for the country.”
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@MyLordBebo Talk only no actions, and no skin in the game. Talk is cheap
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🇪🇺🇮🇷 EU's von der Leyen believes it's "too early" to lift sanctions on Iran
"We believe that lifting sanctions would be premature. We must first see changes, fundamental changes, in Iran for the sanctions to be lifted"
Iran has been under various sanctions for 47 years
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@niubi Wiser for Meta not to go against Chinese Govt. Else it can get its fingers burnt US blocking and reversal sales of ports and other companies toward Chineee companies have also been rampant
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So how does this get unwound? And what if meta says no? Take it out on employees and the vcs? They could go after meta’s ad sales to Chinese firms, but that would also hurt those Chinese firms using meta platform’s to sell exports
Financial Times@FT
Breaking news: China has blocked Meta’s $2bn acquisition of artificial intelligence platform Manus, after regulators reviewed whether the deal violated Beijing’s investment rules. ft.trib.al/JnwLniN
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@OopsGuess @Write4Republic Where got free ? Even the president and the. Ice President have to report to Israel leader. What rights and liberty if you can’t even afford a decent medical care ?
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China is a tyrannical hellhole, america is a free country with more rights and liberty than your commie brain could even comprehend.
You keep talking and I'll turn China over to japan and Korea.
𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦@OopsGuess
@Write4Republic Funny how “self-determination” becomes propaganda the moment it is applied to U.S. territory. So the rule is simple: If it weakens China, it is freedom. If it questions America, it is a bot. Thanks for proving my point.
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@GodfreeTrh @SipOfKoKo We should remember the origin of capital that of the west: massacre, aggression, colonialism, opium, slavery, and all.
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The Communists had the richest, most powerful, most ruthless nations on earth against it from the day Marx published his critique of Capitalism.
In 1918, Capitalist armies invaded Russia from both East and West and every day thereafter spent great time and money to sabotage and destroy it—including giving billions in aid to Hitler for his invasion of the USSR.
The USSR was handicapped by having no cultural history of governance—Russia was always a chaotic autocracy—and naivety about the greater world.
China had none of those drawbacks and its adoption of Communism was immediately followed by the fastest economic takeoff in world history—a momentum it still carries today.
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Why did the communist sphere need the capitalist sphere but not vice versa? The communists had the Soviet Union, half of Europe, and literally the most populated nation on Earth. It also had plenty of non-aligned nations who were happy to trade. Why the excuses for failure?
AtoFvFvFneZ@FvFot
@StatisticUrban The soviet sphere was famously unsanctioned by capitalist nations
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