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Hybrid war with China intensifies.SputnikSenior White House Officials Agree to Cut Huawei From Global Chip Supply – ReportAlso at Sputnik US Resorts to Bashing Chinese Government Over Own Coronavirus Failures

The events effectively used the Venezuela blueprint – street protests in major cities by the right-wing, attacks on ruling party activists, denial of legitimacy by the US & Co, pressure on the army to end support for Morales. Using the OAS to delegitimise Morales, he was proposed to leave for Mexico. As a result, what did not work in Venezuela, where all this instrumentation, including the president appointed by Washington, was designed to overthrow Maduro, as a whole worked in Bolivia,...

The US has slapped new sanctions on Iran’s construction industry, targeting a number of “strategic” materials – like steel tubes and foil – and making sure the MSM amplify their vague hints of nuclear weapons and terrorism links.... Is this further eroding US soft power by coming across internationally as bullying?RTWeapons of mass construction? US sanctions Iran’s ‘terrorist-controlled’ building sector & ominous ‘strategic materials’ supply

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Everything that happens geopolitically and geoeconomically in our turbulent times has to do with the US’ do-or-die imperial struggle against the Russia-China strategic partnership. Only total “victory,” by any means necessary, would assure the continuation of what could be defined as the New American Century. And that brings us to the necessity of reconstructing Clausewitz’s axiom, according to which, originally, war is a continuation of politics by other means. Clausewitz argued that war...

Basically, what he’s trying to do is blame China and blame foreigners for the fact that a lot of Americans are really hurting. They’re not doing better. They’re not earning enough to break even. They’re going further into debt. But Trump is really saying that it’s not our fault. It’s China’s fault. Don’t blame the financial mismanagement. Don’t blame the corporations. Blame China. He pretends that they’ll pay instead of Americans. But when you levy a tariff, import prices are going to go...

Qualcomm, AMD and Arm fear $200bn market swaying to homegrown rivals The strategy of the Trump administration only makes sense if the US can re-colonize China with its hybrid warfare — economic, information, and cyber. How likely is that?Nikkei Asian ReviewWestern chipmakers worry Huawei ban will only empower China tech Kensaku Ihara and Hiromi Sato | Nikkei staff writers alsoNo tariffs needed in China.Zero HedgeChinese Consumers Shun All American Products As Nationalism SoarsTyler Durden...

In an interview, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström discusses what the tariff dispute between the United States and China means for European companies and consumers and why President Trump's strategy could end with the "law of the jungle."... Spiegel OnlineEU Commissioner on the U.S.-China Trade War: 'Our List of Countermeasures Is Ready' Peter Müller and Christian Reiermann interview European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström See alsoTASSGerman companies plan to invest...

More geopolitics and geostrategy, and how it impacts finance and economics. The danger here is that POTUS and US hardliners see this as a zero-sum game. This greatly increases the chance that it will lead to kinetic warfare on a grander scale. The US is already deep into deploying economic, information, and cyberwarfare against a number of countries, and positioning for kinetic warfare. The situation now is increasingly hair-trigger.Zero HedgeRabobank: Trump-Xi Meeting Is Not About...

With sanctions re-imposed on Iran’s oil exports last year and recently applied in part to its petrochemicals exports as well, the U.S. is now looking to roll out the next phase of its sanctions plan against the Islamic Republic. This is to gradually employ increasingly tight sanctions on Iran’s gas sector, whilst ensuring that Europe’s mechanism for enabling ongoing business with Iran does not succeed. These policies taken together are aimed at limiting Iran’s energy export revenues to no...