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Links — 15 March 2023

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Cision PRThe Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) Launches an International Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)  ["at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings 2023, the Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) announced their official launch of an international central bank digital currency (CBDC) that strengthens the monetary sovereignty of participating central banks and complies with the recent crypto assets policy recommendations proposed by the IMF"]News release by Digital Currency Monetary Authority Strategic Culture Foundation (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)All Roads Lead to Beijing [Western culture meets Chinese culture]Pepe EscobarStrategic Culture Foundation (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)We are Closening to a Move Through the Cycle –

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Cision PR
The Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) Launches an International Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)  ["at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings 2023, the Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) announced their official launch of an international central bank digital currency (CBDC) that strengthens the monetary sovereignty of participating central banks and complies with the recent crypto assets policy recommendations proposed by the IMF"]
News release by Digital Currency Monetary Authority

Strategic Culture Foundation (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)
All Roads Lead to Beijing [Western culture meets Chinese culture]
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We are Closening to a Move Through the Cycle – But First Will Come Disorder [the social and political dysfunctionality of Western "liberalism" taken to the extreme]
Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy

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China’s Asia export boom bedevils US friend-shoring  [China is not being isolated economically]
David P. Goldman

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Daily Chronicles April 15 [intersection of geopolitics and geoeconomics]

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