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In yet another desperate attempt to stop Huawei’s influence worldwide, the United States and European Union (EU) have warned Malaysia about the risks of allowing the Chinese tech giant to roll out 5G. According to the Financial Times, envoys from the U.S. and EU wrote to the government in April after a Malaysian government’s decision […]
... written on May 03 2023It will not happen overnight or next month. And it will not lose entirely its reserve currency status next year. But the U.S. dollar is definitely losing its status at a faster pace than generally accepted. Western analysts and economists are simply in denial when they insist that the greenback is not going anywhere, let […]
... written on Apr 20 2023Playing good cop and bad cop, French president Emmanuel Macron and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen flew into Beijing last Wednesday. The duo’s visit to China (April 5 – April 8) was supposed to present a united European front to pressure Beijing on several issues, including using Chinese influence to condemn Russia and […]
... written on Apr 10 2023Saudi Arabia, the de-facto leader of OPEC, and other OPEC+ oil producers announced on Sunday (April 2) voluntary cuts to their production to the tune of 1.15 million barrels per day (bpd). While Saudi said it will slash output by 500,000 bpd, close ally UAE said it would cut by 144,000 bpd in addition to […]
... written on Apr 04 2023For the last 100 years since the U.S. dollar replaced the British pound sterling as an international reserve currency, the United States has become the world superpower after the First World War (1914-1918). Coincidentally, the dollar as we know it today was actually first printed in 1914 after the Federal Reserve Bank was created under […]
... written on Apr 02 2023America is very good at getting involved in wars, but is horrible at getting out of them. The military superpower has never failed leaving behind a trail of destruction in every country it involved in wars – Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Kosovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan and the list goes on. The latest war […]
... written on Mar 30 2023Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, popularly known as MBS, lost all his Western friends with a snap of a finger following the brutal assassination of Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. The CIA concluded that MBS had given the order for the killing, where the Saudi Arabian dissident […]
... written on Mar 28 2023When Kim Jong-Un threatened to unleash nuclear missiles at the United States, the West laughed. But when Vladimir Putin did the same, the West took the threat seriously. The reason North Korea will never nuke South Korea or Japan, let alone the U.S. – unless America makes the first move to destroy North Korea – […]
... written on Mar 27 2023From “no limits” partnership announced by China and Russia in February 2022 to the latest pledge to drive something that hasn’t been seen by the civilization in 100 years, the West is very concerned. Thanks to the United States’ strategic errors – and arrogance – Beijing and Moscow are now closer than ever, driven by […]
... written on Mar 24 2023When arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran announced they were restoring diplomatic relations, the world was stunned. The split between the two main sects within Islam, Saudi-led Sunni Islam and Iran-led Shia Islam, goes back some 1,400 years in a dispute over who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad as leader of the Islamic faith. As a […]
... written on Mar 19 2023
