As I've said for a long time now,

China becoming a vastly powerful industrial machine of a country means nothing for 85 % of you,

China is not going to save you,

and it does not care about you beyond you buying their products,

for 80 % of you, especially all of you New World bros, you're going to have to put up with Uncle Sam for a very long time.

Don't buy all the "declining" language a lot of your favorite tweeters do on here.

https://x.com/okaythenfuture/status/2007382819425988936

Maduro could have had an easy life,

he could have just toned down the Pro China and Russia talk,

I could have told him for free they wouldn't save him when push comes to shove,

but alas.....

This is one of the most important graphs this century.

Europe in twenty years has gone from 35 % of Global GDP and 30 % of market capitalization to 25 % and 15 %.

Asia is now 45 % of Global GDP and 30 % of market capitalization.

The Asian Century. Nothing ever happens in the day to day,

BUT A LOT HAPPENS on a generational timescale.

In 2000, Europe taking up massive headspace in the minds of Africans and Asians made sense, in 2025 it no longer does.

Imagine by 2025? Europe will probably be 10 % of Global GDP and less than that in market capitalization.

This is my ranking of Asian countries in terms of their global influence and historical contribution. We start with SSS,

China and India are planetary civilizations unto themselves, that influenced not only their homelands, but all of SE Asia, Central Asia, and the entire world.

Saudi Arabia birthed Islam, it is the lone country in SS as a result. Islam has shaken our world since it was born in the Arabian desert,

Modern Saudi Arabia is also in the midst of a modern renaissance.

China and Southeast Asian Countries are currently in the process of building the World's Greatest Rail Network,

An extended network of High Speed Rail routes that will transform Asian Geopolitics and Business is being built.

This is a 🧵 on this generational project, If you don't want to read,

I just dropped a video on this exact same topic,

Watch and Subscribe!

Outdated perceptions that the mainstream won't get until like 2040,

- Asia is to the current world what Europe was to it in 1900, the center of global progress.
- France is now the world's best footballing country, not Brazil.
- All Anglo healthcare systems are terrible. - Singapore and Dubai are the new actual Switzerland, Switzerland is over.
- Ethnic groups who spend all the time debating gender wars will lag behind other ethnic groups who don't.
- American presidential elections largely are just kayfabe.

Sadly Kofi Annan’s dreams are nowhere close towards being fulfilled.

African leaders, organizations, and activists blame colonialism more now in 2023 than they did in 1998.

It will be 2060 soon, colonialism will still be an excuse peddled.

nytimes.com/1998/04/17/wor… This statement would still be seen as radical even in 2023.

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In Africa its very easy as a young person to go "it'll get better in a year", "let me wait until after the next election", "let's see in a few years if the business atmosphere improves."

Before you know it, fifteen years have passed, you're 37, and your entire youth has passed. You always have to go after your best interest, working careers and the prime of our lives are so very short.

Don't waste it in an environment that's not maximizing your potential.

You don't have to be the sacrificial goat for a state that doesn't deserve you.

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This decision largely came down to family most likely.

The wife preferred Miami to Riyadh, didn’t like the latest Paris stay, Messi strikes me as a happy wife happy life guy.

There was no objective business reason to decline a tax free 1.6 billion dollar deal.

https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1666540706880684033

Again you can say whatever you want about inter Miami being a long term deal blah blah blah and it’ll build up to 1 Billion+ in value.

But it comes nowhere close to actually just having 1.6 billion dollars in value in three years time.
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There’s a certain kind of West Coaster that’s being rather annoying today and gloating about the east coast haze.

“It’s been like this for years out here, oh you’re only feeling this now 😏 “

Calm down PST bros, people generally care about things in their immediate vicinity. Did West Coasters care this month about the intense heat waves out in Southeast Asia?

Or the raging fires in Alberta Canada that have been happening all spring?

Or when Chinese and Korean cities were choking on smog in the 2010s?

No you didn’t care, so keep it easy.

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I posted a few weeks ago about the prospects of this, of hazy skies over New York City akin to what Californians largely suffer every year now.

There’s a lot of aged forests around New York City in Quebec, Ontario, Upstate New York, and New England.

Bonfire season is coming 🔥

https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/1666232415310819332

The world we’re entering is so bizarre.

Almost sentient AI that’s creative and intellectual beyond belief intermingled with intensifying climate change, state fragility, and increasingly closed borders.

Do what you can to be on the right side of the income ladder.

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Nigeria as a country exhausts me.

Just today alone I have been exposed to news of Indian police hunting down Nigerian drug dealers, South Africa policing Nigerian cybercriminal groups, and now this scam perpetrated on Western stock exchanges.

A national wake-up call is needed.

https://twitter.com/hindenburgres/status/1666069367384166400

Nigeria globally is becoming associated with crime and scamming to an unhealthy degree.

From Malaysia to the UAE to Japan, Nigerians are gaining a reputation as a menace.

It’s an unfair reputation to the vast majority of the country, but it’s becoming a thing.
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As I’ve said for awhile now, the American Mexican border has internationalized to a stunning degree the past few years, and it’s intensified this year.

There is a global multinational stampede towards America via claiming asylum status.

How this ends? I assume with a backlash.

https://twitter.com/BensmanTodd/status/1665902567984074752

One of the first elements of international law I see crumbling in the next decade to two, especially as climate change intensifies, is asylum law.

It is quite frankly a joke to be claiming asylum from Senegal/Mauritius half the world away in the United States.

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McKinsey this week published stunning African economic data which seems to illustrate the scale of the continent's economic challenges.

First take a look at this chart, since 1990 Africa has averaged just 1.1 % annual growth in per capita income, by far the world's laggard.

🧵 The number of Africans also living in poverty has grown by thirty million since 1990.

Total stagnation.

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Every so often we get an unhinged tweet on here from some black person asking us to name any “successful” Black majority countries.

Going forward, simply just tell them The Bahamas and Barbados and move on with your day. Both countries are a testament to what a talented tenth can accomplish for a populace at large.

Both countries have an elite class with a strong sense of national service and have cultivated strong service and financial sectors.

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There's a view in America that the rest of the world is going to sink.

They see a stagnant Europe, a constantly chaotic Africa, and an aging Asia and think this century is going to be another American century.

From what I've seen on the ground, that to me looks like delusion. America no doubt has a bright future, but if you're not getting out there, especially into Asia + The Gulf + East Africa you're missing a huge story and immense developments.

The Indian ocean is what typically has driven the world, and that world is increasingly coming back.

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Saudi Arabia will fund the African Super League, which will be a league reserved for Africa’s most successful football teams.

The deal will be 200 mill+ USD and will start in 2024.

In exchange, CAF will support any future Saudi World Cup bid.

theguardian.com/football/2023/… Gotta give it to the Saudis, this gets them 54 free votes for their World Cup bid like that, in addition it also gives Africans their first truly global competitive football tourney.

A tourney that is a light test run for the eventual European super league.

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This video is important because it shows the power of choices.

Mayotte voted to stay in France because they didn’t trust the direction of the Comoros, the Comorians voted for independence, and then threatened Mayotte after the fact.

Choices sadly have consequences attached.

https://twitter.com/france24_en/status/1649397784338919424

France doesn’t really gain much from Mayotte, but through their presence there it’s become a territory with a 10K+ GDP per capita and it attracts migrants from Comoros and Madagascar.

They can’t be accused of racism either, this is an overwhelmingly majority black island.

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Ethiopia and Sudan have been warring over Al Fashaga ever since the close of the Meles era, and it has intensified in the past few years.

For Amhara hardliners this has always been a prize so this attack isn’t surprising.

Sudan should worry though about the implications.

https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1648835448582676480

Sudan is now at its weakest point since the late 1990s, it is also a buffer state between Ethiopia and Egypt and their many Nile River disputes.

Neither would be pleased to see the other exerting dominance on Sudan, but with a weak Sudan the prize of Sudan escalates higher.

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This is E’s latest startup, Itana, that he’s building within range of Lagos that will be a private city that can serve as a regulatory and tech hub for African startups.

Private cities have a huge future on the African continent and this was a good read. Just as in India, there’s a growing class of corporations and upper income individuals tired of the graft and chaos of traditional cities, and they may just seek to exit this mess while staying within their homelands.

Private cities can potentially serve as a useful exit.

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A low stage civil war in Sudan has kicked off today.

A battle between the broader Military and the elite faction of the military known as the RSF.

Neither are particularly that popular among the Khartoum middle class, however they each have regional strength.

https://twitter.com/KholoodKhair/status/1647144612685832192

This is a story of two men, General Burhan and General Hemeti, both of who dream of becoming the new strongman of Sudan, and both no longer keen to share the spotlight.

Let's see how this works out for Sudan.

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Peter Obi isn’t likely to win this election but the initial reactions we’re seeing here of rage and ethnic blame games isn’t the way.

Obi and his followers should focus on building a true national structure, it takes multiple attempts to win a complex beast like Nigeria. For one reason or another African countries rarely reward initial upstart campaigns, it takes grinding attempt after attempt, decades of work before one sees himself in the presidential palace.

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