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Yes. The petroyuan is a threat to the USD, a further push to the dedollarisation trend... which in the long term will curtail US' ability to spend indefinitely by issuing treasuries and printing money ('QE'). Already BRICs is coming up with a parallel payment system, BRICs Pay, as an alternative...

Spot on.

On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, the nation that wrote the rules of the post-1945 international order has declared independence from them. The capture of Nicolás Maduro on 3 January 2026 was not merely a military operation—it was a constitutional moment for international law, one that may...

German parliamentarian Roderich Kiesewetter captured the transformation precisely: ‘With President Trump, the U.S. are abandoning the rules-based order that has shaped us since 1945. The coup in Venezuela marks a return to the old U.S. doctrine from before 1940: a mindset of thinking in terms of...

Desperation not because of illegal U-turn. Driver probably on Kpod.

Not the smartest move by the US. When Trump breaks all the rules and invade another sovereign country illegally, it sets the stage for China to do the same to Taiwan. Basically Trump is saying: might is right, and the hell to rules-based world order. Continue pushing the boundaries further and...

It’s all about oil and the petrodollar. Last ditch attempt by a falling empire.

Watch out for the Vietnamese. They are the only Indochinese country capable of overtaking Indonesia, despite a much smaller population. In many ways I find the Viets more similar to the Chinese than the Thais, Camboidans and Myanmese in terms of work culture and competitiveness.

If things pan out well, it will be an Asian century..

In 1850, China and India were the two biggest economies in the world. Matter of time before they took their rightful positions again.

My Indian friend tells me that Indian drivers are the most intrepid in the world: if you have driven on Indian roads, you can drive anywhere. You jostle with cows, buffalo, bullock carts, reckless lorries, tuk tuks, motorcycles, bicycles, pedestrians who treat the roads like a footpath, even...

Admiral Zheng He was born in Kunming. If the video is correct, Islam came to the peninsula from Yunnan. That clears up the misconception that the Malay race originated from the southward migration of Yunnan aboriginals.

Mixed wedding, but it's always the non-Muslim kaffir that has to convert to Islam, never the other way round. My wife's cousin married a Malay man; he converted to Christianity (very rare) but was ex-communicated by his family. So much for religious tolerance.

Pundek gets drunk, pundek turns violent. Same old same old

Privatize the profits, socialize the costs. The American way.

You'll always be tied to your soulmate beyond birth and death, which is just life changing forms. The physical body has a certain lifespan and will eventually perish. Realise that all is impermanent on this material plane, release all attachments, and peace will be yours.

This is democracy in action, something that Sinkies can only dream of. As I've said before: in a 2023 survey, only 49% supported independence, while 51% preferred status quo or reunification (under whatever terms). The reality is Taiwanese want jobs, they want the economy to grow, they want a...

As long as you have enough to cater to your basic living needs, you don't actually need anything outside of yourself - money, assets, status, even a 'soulmate' - to find happiness and contentment. Everything comes and goes, even relationships. Connect to your innermost being and peace and joy...

Han is just a cultural construct... barbarians toughen Han genetic stock but get assimilated into Han culture and become civlised. Win-win. Actually most of the genetic variation in Han DNA lies in mitochondrial DNA, only transmitted maternally. That means a lot of Han men were fucking non-Han...

Myth. Li Bai's lineage goes back to the Longxi Li family - a Han clan - that founded Western Liang, but his family was forced into exile in central Asia, where Li Bai was born. He later moved to what is today's Chengdu. The founders of Tang Dynasty are also the descendants of the Longxi Li...