The China Card

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Here is a Collection of Documentaries
on *China - in - Current - Affairs:



In the Age of AI (full film) | FRONTLINE



The Coverup of the Century | Zooming In’s one-hour documentary movie



The Coming War On China (China Documentary)
| History Documentary | Reel Truth History



New Money: The Greatest Wealth Creation Event
in History (2019) - Full Documentary



China’s alliance with Turkey in West Asia is all
set to be challenged by Israel, Saudi and allies



SPECIAL REPORT: Inside China’s COVID Cold War with the West



USA vs China: The new cold war on the horizon | DW Analysis



China: Power and Prosperity -- Watch the full documentary



Is China taking over the South Pacific? | 60 Minutes Australia



Investigation: Why is China on the move in the South Pacific?
| 60 Minutes Australia



Wuhan lab signs deal to expand potential bio-warfare
abilities; Regime takeover shows CCP infighting



The China they DON'T want you to SEE!



Documentary: Iran & China vs USA | China's Economic
Expansion | New Silk Road | World Economy



Why China Will be the Big Winner of the 2020 Crisis



The Economics of China’s Enormous Belt & Road Initiative



The New Silk Road: Ambition and Opportunity | CNBC



Geopolitics of the South China Sea



Gravitas: Is China running out of food?



China could soon become seven different countries



There is unrest within China’s PLA post Galwan.
Son of former PLA and CCP veteran spills the beans

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...And Here is another Documentary...

RIDING THE DRAGON: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets (Full Documentary)

Yes, Donald Drumpf is awful. Yes, he is a fascist. Yes, he is the worst ever prezident so far. But Joe Biden might very well be the authentic Manchurian Candidate. In any case, We the People are between a rock & a hard place. There are no legitimate political options. A plague on both of their houses.

The Documentary (Above) is well-crafted propaganda from Blaze TV about "Democrat Traitors" - the Bidens in particular. In their own words, "BlazeTV is news & entertainment for people who love America and the exclusive online network home to Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Dave Rubin, Steven Crowder, Phil Robertson, Lauren Chen, Chad Prather and many more! "Ah, but this particular piece of propaganda has a basis in reality.

Ignore this at your own peril. What we have here is Beltway factionalism in high gear, as revealed in the very important & very telling article "“Bipartisan” Washington Insiders Reveal Their Plan for Chaos if Trump Wins the Election"

"...Aside from Brooks, the other co-founder of TIP is Nils Gilman, the current Vice President of Programs at the Berggruen Institute and, prior to that, worked for Salesforce, a major tech company and government contractor. Gilman is particularly focused on artificial intelligence and transhumanism, recently telling the New York Times that his work at the Berggruen Institute is focused on “building [a] transnational networks of philosophers + technologists + policy-makers + artists who are thinking about how A.I. and gene-editing are transfiguring what it means to be human.” Nicholas Berggruen, for whom the Berggruen Institute is named, is part of the billionaire-led faction, alongside Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman and Eric Schmidt, who seek to develop A.I. and the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” in conjunction with the political leaders and economic elite of China.

They are critics and rivals of those in the “nationalist” camp with respect to A.I. and China, who instead prefer to aggressively “leapfrog” China’s A.I. capabilities in order to maintain U.S. global hegemony as opposed to a “new order” promoted by Berggreun, Schmidt, Schwarzman and Henry Kissinger, another key member of the “cooperation” faction. The battle over the U.S.’ future A.I. policy with respect to China appears to be a major yet widely overlooked reason for some of the antipathy towards Trump by those in the “cooperation” faction, including those who employ TIP’s founders, given Trump’s tendency to, at least publicly, support “America First” policies and increased tensions with China. In contrast, the Biden family is invested in Chinese A.I. companies, suggesting that Biden would be more willing to pursue the interests of the “cooperation” faction than Trump.

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Focus: Fears Grow over China’s Possible
Massive Sales of U.S. Debt as Weapon

By Tomoyuki Tachikawa

Global Research, September 04, 2020

With Sino-U.S. tensions escalating over several security and economic issues, fears are mounting in the financial markets that China may massively sell U.S. government debt it holds as a weapon to choke the world’s biggest economy.

If Beijing, which owns more than $1 trillion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds, really takes such action, that would push down debt prices and drive up interest rates in the United States, stifling investment and consumer spending at home.

As large-scale sales of U.S. dollar-denominated assets would trigger the depreciation of the currency against the Japanese yen, the Asian nation’s economy could be also beset by a downturn in exports, a key engine of growth, diplomatic sources said.

“Should China sell U.S. bonds at a rapid pace in a bid to attack the United States, relations between the two countries would irrecoverably deteriorate,” said Yuzo Sakai, chief manager of foreign exchange business promotion at Ueda Totan Forex Ltd.
“Under such circumstances, market participants would rush to buy the safe-haven Japanese currency by selling risky assets, probably leading to a steep appreciation of the yen,” Sakai said.

Recently, the United States has been intensifying its offensive against China, especially after the mainland enforced a controversial national security law for its territory Hong Kong, which has been lambasted for eroding freedoms and human rights there.

In late June, China enacted the legislation to crack down on what it regards as secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces in Hong Kong, apparently aiming to quell anti-government protests in the former British colony.

Since then, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has taken steps such as ordering China to shut down its consulate general in Houston, Texas, and imposing sanctions on Chinese officials including pro-Beijing Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam.

How China Can Cause The Death Of The Dollar And The Entire U.S. Financial System

China has so far implemented retaliatory measures against the United States, sparking concern that their battle would develop into a “financial war,” one of the diplomatic sources said.

Amid speculation that Trump may ultimately expel China from the dollar settlement system in the world, the leadership of President Xi Jinping could “threaten the United States by saying it will sell U.S. Treasury debt at high volume,” the source said.

Indeed, China has been gradually letting go of U.S. bonds since Trump waged a tit-for-tat tariff trade war in 2018.
In June, China decreased its holdings of U.S. Treasury bills, bonds and notes by $9.3 billion to a total of $1.07 trillion, according to the U.S. government. China has already fallen behind Japan to become the second-biggest holder of U.S. Treasury debt.

Bond prices move inversely to yields. If a U.S. Treasury sell-off accelerates, it could bring a surge in interest rates, dealing a crushing blow to the U.S. economy with mortgage rates and corporate borrowing costs ballooning, analysts said.

Should the outlook for the U.S. economy dim and risk-averse sentiment spread in the financial market, demand for the yen would grow, which could impede recovery in Japan’s export-oriented economy, they added.
A higher yen usually dampens exports by making Japanese products more expensive abroad and cutting the value of overseas revenues in yen terms.

“The Japanese economy has languished due in part to the new coronavirus pandemic and last year’s 2-percentage-point consumption tax hike. In addition to them, if the yen excessively rises, Japan would face a predicament,” another diplomatic source said.

Japan’s economy in the April-June period shrank an annualized real 27.8 percent from the previous quarter, the sharpest contraction on record.

Some pundits, however, have ruled out the possibility of China’s massive selling of U.S. debt, saying it could backfire on Beijing.

A U.S. Treasury sell-off “might damage the United States in the short term but it would inculcate critical economic instability into the global and Chinese economy,” said Stephen Nagy, a senior associate professor at International Christian University in Tokyo.

Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan in Tokyo, echoed the view, saying the question is “where would all that liquidity be invested and how disruptive might that be?”

“Nudging a fragile global economy into the abyss has great potential to harm China’s economy,” he said.

Kingston added that dumping U.S. Treasury bonds “would lower the price as they are sold off, and other countries might see them as relatively attractive compared to other investment options and scoop them up at bargain prices.”
But an institutional investor at a major security house in Tokyo said it may be difficult for Japan to boost its holdings of U.S. government debt as the move could be condemned by other nations as a “currency manipulation.”

The original source of this article is Kyodo News
Copyright © Tomoyuki Tachikawa, Kyodo News, 2020

[Jude Iam]

the world's new super power is stretching and flexing muscles, unfortunately all too strong - cry for Tibet and all of Asia

How Communist China Weaponized the Waters of Asia—Maura Moynihan on the Three Gorges Dam, Flooding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK3OVoqAAWo