“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War Good morning and welcome back to Bygone Relics, I’m C Thomas Printer and today we are going to live recklessly. It can be easy to follow the crowd, and simply repeat what others are talking about and …
china
Heavy content this week: China: capital restrictions, and Musk’s tweet on Covid origination in Wuhan laboratory Russia: foreign minister Lavrov laughed at the US: selling Taiwan arms worth of $619 million, and one needs to keep an eye on for a potential flooding in California Big theme: an important card Russia and China have: fertilizers …
We continue digging into the material challenges around the so-called green revolution, and saying the unsayable. Last week we discussed a climate advocacy research article and study, and we can only hold them to be incompetent in their estimates which are to be expected considering they have no experience in the mineral extraction industry, but …
This week we look into the Turkish Earthquake, fraud in India, and the popular Chinese balloon and is that balloon a response to US military exercise with North Korea or the expansion of the US military presence in the Philippines. As usual, we took a quick peek at the US economy and discussed last Friday’s …
This week on Looking Backwards: New Zealand PM quitting, and the protests in Peru. This week on Looking Forwards: threats that could hinder China to become a superpower, the US hitting the debt ceiling, and Brazil-Argentina discussing creating a common currency. Jacinda Ardern resigns as prime minister of New Zealand | Jacinda Ardern | The …
A perspective on what awaits us in the new year: Elon’s empire on the brink, oil price-supply&demand, geopolitics in China-Taiwan issue, other regional hostilities: Belarus-Ukraine, Kosovo-Serbia, and India-China, another potential hotspot: Ghana defaulting on its debt, and the big question mark: housing market. And finally, turbulences in the US: $545bn in interest in the $1.7tn …
Join us as we go through the news of the year’s last week: Bank of Japan surprising the markets, Biden bailing out a pension fund through pandemic response package, the House failing to ban stock trading for the Congress, Uruguay’s global ambitions shaking up Mercosur, China and Covid hitting headlines again, and housing market softening …
This week we discuss $30bn Saudi & Chinese deal, US & Russia prisoner swap, UK approving a new coal mine, Italy, Japan, and the UK teaming up to build a fighter jet, and British government looking to ease financial rules. Strength in numbers: Saudi Arabia and China seal 35 deals worth $30bn during Xi Jinping’s …
Indonesia putting 100-island archipelago up for auction, and wanting to create an OPEC-like organization for Nickel, Xiaomi aiming to sell 10 million electric cars annually, China’s comprehensive relationship with Latin America, and nuclear energy gaining popularity. Indonesia puts 100-island archipelago up for auction, sparking environmental concerns | Indonesia | The Guardian Indonesia wants to make …
News that caught our eyes this week were Russia claiming there has been another sabotage attempt to its gas pipelines, Ghana planning to buy oil with gold instead of US dollars, Norway postponing oil and gas licensing round, China’s covid zero protests, rail strike in the US, and yield curve inversion reaching an extreme. Russia …