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- worldnews
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China sold a record $53.3 billion of US Treasury and agency bonds in the first quarter of 2024, likely due to escalating trade tensions and a desire to diversify its assets. This move is raising concerns as China is a major holder of US debt and its actions could impact the US economy. Additionally, China has been increasing its gold reserves, potentially as a way to mitigate sanctions risk.
Addendum:
Simply by raising the interest rates, the US is wrecking many countries’ economy (nearly two dozen of African countries are on the brink of default right now). For example:
Reuters: Pakistan braces for fuel shortages amid liquidity crisis
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France 24: Egyptians hit by soaring food prices as crisis bites
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Reuters: Sri Lanka to default on debt, no money for fuel, minister says
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What Biden is doing now is to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars through Ukraine and Israel to ensure that these starving countries, hungry for the dollar to import essential commodities, to continue be enslaved under the dollar regime, since a BRICS alternative is not available anytime soon. Like fishes in a drying pond praying for rain for a brief respite from the US engineered drought.
This is why I am so afraid of Biden. He is the imperialist who is willing to drive billions into starvation and death if that’s what it takes to preserve the US hegemony over the world.