Bidenomics! M2 Money Velocity Rises … To Almost Pre-Covid Levels, Fed Balance Sheet Remains Above $8 TRILLION (Biden Energy Secretary Secretly Consulted Top Chinese Energy Official Before SPR Release, Sales To Hunter Biden-Linked Chinese Energy Giant)

by confoundedinterest17 I wonder which season the US economy is in, according to President “Chance the Gardener” Biden. If you believe the recovery talk (from the reckless Covid economic and school shutdowns of 2020), all is well in the (economic) garden. For example, M2 Money Velocity (GDP/M2), is almost back …

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EXC: Hunter Biden Was Managing Director At Chinese Military Proxy Planning To Wage ‘Warfare’ Against America

Start the clock on this story too! 🚨 EXC: Hunter Biden Was Managing Director At Chinese Military Proxy Planning To Wage ‘Warfare’ Against America And Make China The ‘World’s Leading Country.’ https://t.co/4aTJLqnyEM https://t.co/Gikx8pzE4D — Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) August 4, 2023 Deleted strategy papers from CEFC China Energy – a Chinese …

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US Government launches investigation into $9 trillion asset manager BlackRock over Chinese investments.

by AvailableChoice3130 The goal of the investigation is to gather facts that would inform the U.S.’s China policies, including on American capital flows. By routing “massive flows of American capital” to such Chinese entities, the U.S. firms are “exacerbating an already significant national-security threat and undermining American values,” said the …

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Chinese Ex-Foreign Minister Disappears in Apparent Power Struggle: Chinese diplomacy to be more hardline against West after Qin Gang’s removal

Chinese foreign policy vis-à-vis the United States is likely to turn increasingly frigid under Wang Yi, who returned to replace Qin Gang this week as Chinese foreign minister after Qin’s mysterious month-long absence, a well-informed source told Asia Sentinel. Wang, who held the post before being replaced by Qin, previously …

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Chinese Biolab Discovered Operating Near Fresno, California

CDC detects coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis and herpes at unlicensed California lab The CDC found at least 20 potentially infectious agents at the warehouse in Fresno County. Local and federal authorities spent months investigating a warehouse in Fresno County, California, that they suspect was home to an illegal, unlicensed laboratory full …

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Chinese Banks Offload Huge Dollar Holdings As Yuan Surges

Amidst a global move towards de-dollarization and increasing demand for yuan-based transactions, the efforts of Chinese policymakers to prop up their currency have increasingly gained traction. In efforts to bolster the yuan, China’s major government-controlled banks began offloading their US dollar holdings to acquire the Chinese currency in both domestic …

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Europe Is Stockpiling Chinese Solar Panels At Record Levels

via Alex Kimani: The global energy crisis triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine exposed Europe’s extreme vulnerability due to the continent’s over-reliance on Russian energy commodities, especially natural gas. Europe responded with overkill, with the continent managing to store so much gas that it emerged from the last winter season …

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The $9 trillion of Chinese local government bonds that helped drag the rest of the world out of the 2008 financial crisis are a growing risk this time around.

China’s Murky Debt Corner Faces Funding Squeeze (Bloomberg) — The $9 trillion of Chinese local government bonds that helped drag the rest of the world out of the 2008 financial crisis are a growing risk this time around. The bonds funded an economic boom in China more than a decade …

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Extremely weak global economy… The United States and Europe are already in an industrial recession; Optimism around the Chinese consumer has faded following the re-opening

The third OPEC+ oil cut. Oil ended down on the news. Sign of an extremely weak global economy. pic.twitter.com/Ic3kgQWpFf — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) July 3, 2023 Optimism around the Chinese consumer has faded following the re-opening A weakening Chinese economy is a major red flag for the global economy pic.twitter.com/8sDZ0BweP2 — …

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Chinese, Palestinian leaders announce establishment of strategic partnership

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced during their meeting in Beijing on Wednesday the establishment of a bilateral strategic partnership, China Central Television (CCTV) reported. “Having encountered epochal global changes and new challenges in the Middle East, China is ready to strengthen its coordination and cooperation …

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Chinese Defense Minister warns: Severe China-US conflict would be an UNBEARABLE DISASTER for the world

via naturalnews: Chinese Minister of Defense Li Shangfu has warned that a “severe conflict” between China and the United States would be an “unbearable disaster” that the world might not be able to recover from. Li gave this warning during the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, an international defense summit held every year in …

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Chinese scientists build hypersonic generator capable of powering a range of high-tech weapons (while the US depletes its armory by sending its weapons to Ukraine)

via naturalnews Chinese scientists have built a hypersonic generator that is capable of powering a range of weapons and military lasers as well as rail guns and microwave weapons, and the compact format of their generator means its potential uses are staggering. Using a controlled detonation, Chinese researchers found a way …

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FBI shielded two firms tied to Chinese Communist regime.

In October 2022, Konnech CEO Eugene Yu was arrested in Michigan in connection with “theft of personal data.” The alleged stolen data belonged to poll workers and was the subject of TrueTheVote’s “PIT” in Arizona last August, where Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips singled out the Michigan based company. During …

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Chinese warship cuts off U.S. Destroyer in Taiwan Straits…

🇨🇳🚢🇺🇸 Today a Chinese warship nearly rammed a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait – PRC allegedly disrupts Canada-U.S. exercises in the South China Sea #2 China shows what it thinks about US forces in and over the Taiwan street. https://t.co/hU7lxtBThO pic.twitter.com/CulsMPNIly — Hawkeye1812Z (@Hawkeye1745) June 3, 2023

There are ever more signs of weakness in the Chinese economy

by Shaun Richards The economic story of 2023 was supposed to be one where the re-opening of China after Covid saw its economic growth surge again.Except as we have been noting increasingly the economic engine has been rather stuttering. Back on the 17th of this month we looked at some disappointing manufacturing and production figures for …

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