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Nov 3 11 tweets 2 min read
Top 10 recent news that portend a terrible future for the US-led world order:
1. Saudi Arabia rejects Biden’s demand to increase oil production.

Instead, Saudis work with Russia (OPEC+) to cut production.

Then, MBS invites Xi Jinping for a visit.
2. Anti-imperialists win all across Latin America.

Lula wins in Brazil, talks up a new currency to a replace US dollar.

He also blames NATO for the war in Ukraine!
3. Argentina, Saudi Arabia, and Iran explore membership in BRICS.

China-led SCO also adds Iran as the new member.
4. Qatar rejects price cap on Russian energy.

It’s like an Arab Spring in the reverse direction!
5. Singapore clearly states that it is not going to choose between China and USA.

Singapore also signs major trade/tech deals with China.

The same philosophy holds for ASEAN as a group.

Vietnams’s leader visits Beijing, hugs Xi, renews partnership.
6. India increases purchases of Russian energy products, and even pays for some of it using Yuan.

India’s imports from China also increases rapidly.
7. After US-led coup in Pakistan, the new Prime Minister visits Beijing, renews commitment to CPEC.

Hello, what’s the point of a coup?
8. Swiss bank UBS’ chief says that bankers don’t read American media, and are very bullish on China.

Haven’t they read the memo about decoupling and deglobalization? And that China is a threat to the West? 😭
9. German leader Scholz is about to visit China; and he is also thinking about negotiating with Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

If Germany flips, so will most of Europe.

America’s entire geopolitical strategy will be dead.
10. Everything going against US plans.

Russia is thriving, China is on solid footing, Europe is not really into America, people in Global South have positive views about Russia & China, Latin America is trying to break the Monroe Doctrine, and Petrodollar is in trouble!

USA 👇🏽

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Nov 2
Today in 1917, Britain just gave away Palestine to the Jewish leaders.

No democracy, elections, rule of law, sovereignty, human rights blah blah.

👇🏽 Balfour Declaration letter to a Lord Rothschild, the great-great-grandson of the dynasty.

But why?
First, the Zionist movement had become quite influential by then.

Jewish people in US and Europe were very successful and supported Zionism even if they themselves were not willing to move to the new Israel.

But still why would the British Empire just give Palestine away?
Obviously I don’t know! But here’s a fascinating narrative I heard long time ago:

“During WW1, the British were getting crushed by Germans.

By mid-1916, Germany had clearly won. Happy with the results, Germans proposed ending the war. And the UK was about to sign the deal.”
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Nov 2
Why modern American culture is appealing and toxic. Short 🧵
I asked an Indian kid in Bangalore yesterday what her favourite food was.

“Pizza!” - she replied excitedly.

Of course, she wasn’t influenced by Italy but rather by USA.

American culture’s soft power is enormous. Food, clothes, music, movies, TV shows…USA rules!

Why, How?
1. Traditional cultures are complex:

If you are not Vietnamese, you likely won’t be appreciate Vietnamese music.

If you’re not Indian, you probably get bored with Indian folk dances.

Traditional Italian/French meal takes a long time to prepare.

And so on.
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Nov 1
A big misconception in India is that India can do things slowwwwly, and everything will still turn out okay.

Here’s why it’s a terrible and dangerous notion:
We live in a rapidly changing world. And in many sectors, there’s a winner-takes-all phenomenon.

Corporations/consumers want the latest & most efficient technology/industries.

If you are slowwww, you have very little or zero market share. And you will never be able to catch up.
For all the nationalist bravado, Indian consumers themselves speak loudly with their actions!

All the popular cars, smartphones, computers, household appliances, key software applications etc. in India are all… foreign!
Read 7 tweets
Oct 31
Dumbass academics in the US have published a study that claims:

“Based on satellite images at night, we can conclude that China has been lying a lot about its GDP growth.”

Here’s a quick debunking based on trade data. Image
Here’s a better data that is not only directly correlated to the economy but also CANNOT be fudged — trade data.

Why? Because every data from China can be counter checked with other countries.

Also, most transactions happen in US dollar or Euro. Thus. Western banks can verify.
So, for example, look at China’s goods exports over the last 30 years: from 1991 to 2021.

It grew from $72 billion to whopping $3.36 TRILLION!

That’s a growth of 47x.

Guess how much China’s OFFICIAL GDP grew during that period? 🤔 Image
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Oct 28
A popular trope in the West is that “China cannot innovate.” But when China gets creative in politics, economics, finance, trade, international relations etc., Western pundits scream, “nOt LiKe THat!”
When Nixon went to China in 1972, US oligarchs like Rockefeller started drooling.

A capitalist China? Wow, trillions of dollars to be made!

More importantly, an ideological victory over communism/socialism!

A New World Order was just around the corner.
And to “educate” the communists about the wonders of capitalism, the US sent numerous experts to China.

Like, Milton Friedman — Nobel prize winner in economics, libertarian, and the most famous evangelist of “free market.”

Here he’s with Zhao Ziyang.
Read 9 tweets
Oct 26
I am anti-war in general, but I don’t think Russia had a chance. Look at the immoral, psychopaths that Putin has to deal with.

These people would carry out terrorism (blow up pipelines), blatantly glorify Nazis, and carry out false flag attacks, including possibly dirty nukes.
In Syria, these people armed ISIS, used chemical weapons and then blamed Assad.

In Libya, they armed Al Qaeda and then cried that “Gaddafi is killing his own people.” Within a couple of weeks, NATO started bombing.

In Ukraine, they were killing ethnic Russians for 8 years.
In Hong Kong, they brainwashed kids and turned them into mini-terrorists. (In the U.S., Molotov cocktail = act of terrorism)

They smuggled Uyghur separatists into Syria, hooked them up with Al Qaeda, and prepared them to go back to Xinjiang.
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