Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

The total value of all foreign-owned U.S. Treasury securities is up 3.25% year over year in March 2026, and CNBC says Japan and China retreat from owning them

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The big retreat was actually in the BRICS.  The value of Japanese-owned UST is up 5.4% year over year in March, lol. Meanwhile the value of ...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Daleep Singh: I personally don’t think the bond-vigilante trade will be alive very long

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    The bond market is flashing a warning over Iran. A veteran of energy geopolitics explains the risk ... A deal would have to be guarantee...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

Emperor Xi says, Next!

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  Russia’s Putin to meet China’s Xi in Beijing from May 19-20, Beijing and Moscow say
Friday, May 15, 2026

Trump cares as little for freedom in Taiwan as he does in Ukraine

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  Trump told Xi ‘I don’t talk about’ whether U.S. would defend Taiwan from China Biden meanwhile publicly committed to the defense of Taiwan...

There is almost nothing Athenian about China, nor Spartan about the United States

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But here we are. Does THE GRAUNIAD even know that Sparta won that war? Does Xi?  Meanwhile "Make America Great Again" handed our a...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

I wonder how many of the groceries are still alive

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  36-year-old left the U.S. for China—now pays $1,000 rent and $100 for groceries for family of 4
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Trump cuts off the flow of Iranian oil with blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, about 1.5 million barrels per day, China most hurt

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 Trump says U.S. will blockade Strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks fail  Iran sends millions of oil barrels to China through Strait of H...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Drudge is running propaganda for the Chicom bond market now

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  Chinese govt bonds emerge as lone haven...   https://en.people. cn /n3/2026/0327/c90000-20440521.html ... "By allocating to RMB bonds...

Some foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities are selling them to buy oil, which is denominated in DOLLARS, not in yuan

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 Thank you for your attention to this matter. DXY:  99.893   Foreign central banks sell US Treasuries in wake of Iran war  
Monday, March 30, 2026

Strategic victory for Iran (and China): Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz is the primary result of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran so far

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... So far in March, the first full month of war, barely six vessels per day on average have traversed the narrow waterway connecting the ...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Drone swarms of unknown origin numbering 12-15 interfered with B-52 attack runs to Iran at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana for four hours per incident the week of March 9

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 Sophisticated drones attacked Louisiana’s Barksdale bomber base  ... Barksdale AFB does not have air defenses, nor does it have fighter jet...

Tanker traffic out of the Persian Gulf has been cut by 98% in one month because of the Iran War, effectively reducing the world's primary energy inputs through the Strait of Hormuz by 20%

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The UAE is bypassing the Strait of Hormuz with 1.9 million barrels per day now coming out of Fujairah via its overland pipeline, and Saudi A...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Trump's whopper of the week: The ten vessels Iran let through Hormuz on March 22-23 were a present to the United States lol

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  Trump says Iran let 10 oil ships through Strait of Hormuz as ‘present’ to U.S. ... “That was three days ago, and I didn’t think much about...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, selectively allows a trickle of ships to pass

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Traffic is trickling through Strait of Hormuz: Who’s moving through and who’s still stranded   ... The blockade has squeezed shipping traffi...
Monday, March 16, 2026

This is completely unpatriotic because it helps China, just like Mad King Ludwig's Ukraine policy is completely unpatriotic because it helps Russia

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 Michael Savage used to warn us about the enemy within. Unfortunately America elected him. 80-90% of Iranian oil is bought by China, the pro...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Iran attacks vessels in the Persian Gulf but ships its own oil to China, threatens to mine the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. littoral combat ships prove inadequate as replacements for legacy minesweepers decommissioned last year

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Three cargo ships struck off Iran’s coast, UK says, including one in Strait of Hormuz   ... The UKMTO said it had received 17 reports of inc...
Sunday, March 8, 2026

The Chicoms have been the primary source for Iran's sodium perchlorate for twenty years, without which its ballistic missile program would not exist

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Iran ships most of its oil to China, and China sends back the ingredients for weapons of mass destruction.    Laden Iranian ships depart Chi...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

China expected to expand submarine fleet to 80 by 2035, up to half nuclear-powered, from 60 now, more than half of which are diesel-powered

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  China Building Subs That Can Strike USA From Closer to Home, Navy Warns... ... Brookes cited a Pentagon projection that China’s submarine ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

I'm so old I remember when Jan 2026 full time employment at 48.79% of population was Great Recession level bad

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 That whole China joining the WTO and globalization thingy has really worked out great for the American middle class amirite? The winter tre...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

The Trump administration's first reaction to Canada's Mark Carney forging a new world order with China on Thursday was, We're the real new world order lolol

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