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Looks like cracks are starting to form in the transatlantic partnership. US is likely to take an increasingly hawkish stance on China, but it would be an economic suicide for EU to follow suit. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/us/politics/china-us-europe.html Saudi-Omani delegation to hold ceasefire talks with Houthis in Yemen’s Sanaa https://english.alarabiya.net/News/saudi-arabia/2023/04/07/Saudi-Omani-delegation-to-hold-ceasefire-talks-with-Houthis-in-Yemen-s-Sanaa-Sources Vatican decree called the "Doctrine of Discovery" gave Europeans the right to steal everything from indigenous people in newly "discovered" land, and that it's still a core part of US law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg invoked it in 2005. Even after 1.8 million bombs were removed. At this rate it will still take another 1,860 more years to remove all the bombs in Laos. http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2023-04/06/content_85214023.htm From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on Laos – about as many as there were people in the tiny Southeast Asian nation. America dropped more bombs on Laos during the Vietnam War than on Germany and Japan combined during World War II.
A third of organizations admit to covering up data breaches https://venturebeat.com/security/a-third-of-organizations-admit-to-covering-up-data-breaches/ STRV -- A radiation hard RISC-V microprocessor for high-energy physics applications  contrary to conventional wisdom, lack of capital account openness may not fully prevent the RMB from playing a stronger role as an international and reserve currency https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/renminbis-unconventional-route-reserve-currency-status The world is headed for a multipolar economy that will no longer be dominated by the dollar. This doesn't mean that the dollar will be going away any time soon, but it does mean that dollar based economy will shrink and with it the power that US wields over the world.  @yogthos The dollar being the world's principal trading currency has effectively allowed the US to extract rent out of everyone who traded commodities round the world, because they had to hold dollars in order to do so. Of course, that rent-seeking opportunity is not disappearing, it's just switching to China. Big economic powers will always systematically benefit from market economies at the expense of the poor. The CIA boss has urgently flown to Saudi Arabia to express US "frustration" that peace is breaking out in the Middle East against the wishes of Washington. India will offer its currency as an alternative for trade to countries that are facing a shortage of dollars in the wake of the sharpest tightening in monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve in decades. ChatGPT leaking Samsung chip secrets 😆 Protesters storm BlackRock’s Paris office holding red flares and firing smoke bombs Macron said that under no circumstances nuclear weapons be deployed outside the territory of states. I couldn't agree more. I couldn't agree more. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230407_02/ |
