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Not sure what to think of this article. The article is originally published in Pakistan, but the author is apparently from Bangladesh:
https://www.pressenza.com/2025/04/india-defending-chinese-threat-from-bangladeshs-soil/

Conspiracy theories across the border may sound interesting, but equally disgusting. It is frustrating when scores of Indian so-called defense experts and former military hawks speak and write with confidence that China will establish an airbase (not a military base) in northern Bangladesh to battle the Indians to cut off the so-called ‘Chicken Neck’ or Siliguri Corridor, which physically connects India with North East states.

The consequential theory simmering in the heads of Indian defense analysts claims that the Chinese will severe North East (which is also known as Seven Sisters) from the Chicken Neck. Incidentally, millions of Chinese soldiers (People’s Liberation Army) will invade from the northeastern Chinese borders.

Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dilip Ghosh in a ‘friendly message’ in December 2024, commented that Bangladesh’s armed forces are no match for India and that Bangladesh’s political leaders should “think carefully” about the ongoing turmoil.

Big brain move: notice the market get too volatile and insecure, so you keep changing the economic outlook every 12 hours so that the big players don't know wtf is happening and decide to just hold out for a while and not sell anything.

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On another note, it's hard to appreciate the timescale of the American empire while you're living through it. I just noticed that the possibly strongest empire in human history started to crumble after what, 70-80 years? I usually think of empires lasting for centuries, with generations and generations of a golden age.

new megathread, hot off the presses

Hello all, I apologize for my absence but my attention was required elsewhere due to academia. Within this timeframe I have been very busy and had not had much time to use this website as much as I would have liked to. Due to not using the website for long I close the tab on my computer by accident rendering me unable to get my password back due to forgetting my login details, mainly my password!

I am back now so I hope I did not worry anyone too much whilst I was away. I will write a summary of events soon as things are getting really tense globally. It seems in my absence so much has occurred so bear with me!

It's pretty wild that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is quoting Mao to hit back at the US tariffs. It really underscores what a huge mistake it was when Khrushchev, that "poison dwarf skinhead fuck" tore down Stalin's legacy. You can almost hear all the Western "Sinologist" academics losing their minds right now, shouting, "No, you can’t quote Mao! You’re supposed to be just as ashamed of him as we made the Soviets feel about Stalin! Mao’s supposed to be an ideological weapon we use against you, not something you wield against us! Are all my Ivy League/Oxbridge-published University Press anti-Mao books for nothing?"

You know it's the most logical and efficient system of economics when the speculative value of major corporations swings by 5-10% every time a 78-year-old makes a social media post.

It has been a tense week around the globe and uncertainty of the future is what is the most frightening part of this trade war. Some small businesses in China are adding “America fee” for American tourists so if you want to buy a product with an identification they will add a surcharge which I find amusing and you should too. Each hour the unpredictable nature of this situation creates spikes of anxiety across China and many of us are scared that this can escalate to a kinetic war. I have even heard of some rumors of a draft being implemented but these were not verifiable yet, I don’t think kinetic war is something we see anytime soon but this is a start.

Will China sell treasuries? They have already started doing so… but to think they will “dump” them (sell them all) is out of the question, although I have seen that suggested here in a post or two, unless this is a jest then I would say that mutual economic destruction would be the result- yes economies want to move away from the US globalized order, but the move takes time hence the opportunity for BRICS to flourish and deeper trade partnerships with other nations. Reacting poorly to the decisions of the US in this current time will only impact more people, not just Americans. The reciprocal tariffs is a way of mitigating the consequences and in turn a show of solidarity with the Chinese people and other nations who may be too scared to war with the US. Partnerships like that of Korea, Japan and China only reinforce the Chinese ability to mitigate conflicts and show it is able to play the part of a good global superpower and this is what globally people want, they don’t want an empire which will attack them as its doing now. They just want support.

Rumors: Now for the scary part. Rumors that an all out war will begin are just rumors, but at the same time we have to take into consideration that wars have started over less. Trade wars are essentially hurting economies and the people living in those countries. As America approaches recession, unemployment goes up, people lose jobs, homes, and they die. The Chinese infrastructure is a lot kinder so there are safety nets implemented which prevents people from feeling a full impact, although they will still be affected no doubt. I feel for other countries as well who do not have adequate safeguards in place, in the US however the worker always feels the brunt of the force, the working class will always pay to fix the issues of the country which will possibly lead to some sort of nation wide unrest which is when Trump will enact the insurrection act and install martial law, it is funny that the liberals who were so adamant China was the harbinger of oppression and martial law of certain populations within China (lies) are now starting to understand to some degree that they themselves are living in such a regime. But we should still not trust the liberals as they always side with the fascists in the end, they may cry about it now until their face of the party tells them “sending Americans to El Salvador is good actually” and then they will keep quiet like they did on Palestine. Anything that infringes on their optics and reality of living within a Marvel movie takes them out of their artificial reality, the only reason the liberals complain now is because the cost of empire rises, but when the leash is tugged they will obey. So while the US may start to usher in martial law, they have already boasted their incentive of increasing their military budget to one trillion dollars. This is meaningless and more posturing, the US is in decline and knows it. This is a rat trapped in a corner move and one that increases stock prices of death capital (manufacturers of war products) and nothing more.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 President Trump says he might not reduce tariffs on Israel because "we give Israel billions of dollars a year."

JDPON Don is real

104% tarrifs go into effect on China tomorrow.

Absolutely wild.

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Edit 2: deeply irrational and delirious

Edit 3: nature is healing

Edit4: get ready to learn Chinese, buddy

Shot:

Chaser:

If this is true, it’s the single dumbest policy in an administration that only sets dumb policy. But considering the tariffs on steel I can only imagine we’re going back to building boats out of wood or gang-pressing private vessels to start carrying cargo its not designed to to bear the burden.

Literally set to destroy domestic and international trade, it’s amazing how they set only dumb policy.

::: spoiler i dunno how to x cancel or anything Link here: https://x.com/typesfast/status/1909362292367802840

Excited and anxious at the same time for my trip on Sunday. Getting ready for a 6 hour train ride to Ürümqi, which is the last station for that railway line. I have not seen my cousins in five years so it will be nice to see them all again. Wish me a safe journey please! If I have time to remember I will send a photo of the train.

Disclaimer: "according to sources"

https://xcancel.com/Sino_Market/status/1909464307974521344

If this is true its a huge retaliation.

Trump is genuinely gonna go to war on finance capital but there's no industrial capital to replace it

our time is coming

It probably won't pass the Senate directly, but just the fact in the this here tweet here is amazing

Genuinely hoping for our comrade @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net to return to us

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Deng Xiaoping should really go down as one of the greatest political strategists in history.

"How do you do, fellow capitalists? Great day to exploit labor, amirite? You know, Chinese labor is quite cheap and plentiful, it would certainly be quite beneficial to us capitalists to exploit Chinese labor, right?"

A few decades later, most of the manufacturing is in China, China is now an economic powerhouse, and the dumbest world leader alive now wants to trade war China despite China obviously holding the cards in this scenario.

An important point for negotiators to remember when dealing with the US and these stupid tariffs:

the fucking replies...

Assuming that the tariffs stay in place for some time, this really will be an interesting experiment. I hope that Trump saved the game before he implemented the tariffs.

Another day another comment

I think yesterday perfectly encapsulate why I think we will increasingly see capital leave the us, in a single day the SP500 moved down 5% then up 3% and settling slightly negative. That kind of volatility is more reminiscent of Bitcoin and not something that 'should happen' to stuff like these indexes of 'real economies' yet here we are, and the reason seems to be that institutional investors, basically big investment firms and banks, are completely not moving they are neither selling nor buying at the moment and most movement is coming from retail investors, your gamestop guys, your maga people, those wallstreetbets redditors etc.

So where is the institutional money going to?

For the most part into private companies and they've been doing so for quite a while now in 1996 there were 8000 public traded companies now that numbers is 4000, meanwhile private companies went from 1900 to 11200. This trend is sure to speed up now, especially since after this crash taking a public company private is now cheaper as well so there's no better time than now. This will have several knock on effects the first and foremost one is that as companies leave the public stock market what buying an index of S&P or the Nasdaq gets you less, basically the us stock market will speed up its 'shrinkflation', keep in mind this is something that has been happening since the 2000s but now it'll speed up.

Other knock on effects are decreased confidence in the US as a place to invest in, if I am a german investment banker I rely on data that is under some scrutiny and oversight, so I am much less inclined to want to invest into anything in the US, yes I could get the next google but I could also get the next WeWork. Which means the steady flow of foreign capital into the US will slow and might even end because Trump is keeping up the hostility. Meanwhile US capital will invest in foreign markets if it can which means that where before capital flowed into the US we will now see capital start to flow out of the US over years/decades.

This matters because if Trump is serious about his 'we will bring back manufacturing' then he already lost. Building factories requires a ton of capital, capital that doesn't want to invest right now because of how risky and uncertain things are right now, and which will in the future leave the US, foreign capital is quickly drying up both from hostilities and less confidence so they are out as well which really only leaves them with one way of building manufacturing.

Public spending to build factories, now I don't think it needs to be said but that is never ever going to happen.

So uh yes. I think Trump did sign the eventual death warrant call me the anti-xiaohongshu or whatever

https://xcancel.com/comradesipho/status/1910956026674778410

While many Chinese businesses are reeling from the trade war, Qi, the Maga merchandise maker, brushed off any suggestion his might suffer.

Trump supporters, he said, were willing to pay any price for items bearing the image of their beloved president - and US suppliers were making such a huge profit on them that they could afford to partially absorb the tariff impact.

China slaps retaliatory tariffs of 84% on U.S. goods in response to Trump

China’s Office of the Tariff Commission of the State Council said that tariffs on U.S. goods will rise to 84% from 34% starting on April 10, according to a translation of the announcement. This comes after the latest U.S. tariff hike — which brings levies on Chinese goods to more than 100% — took effect at the start of April 9.

What a funny man

By my reckoning, this means Trump plans to impose 20% + 10% + 34% + 50% = 114% tariffs on China. Jfc…

lol admitting defeat already huh

Off to a good start today; China raises tariffs to 125% and have absolutely stonewalled the US while building up relationships with neighbors

That Helicopter that went down with the "Spanish Tourists"

President and CEO of Siemens Spain and CEO of Siemens Mobility Southwest Europe from December 2022 until his death - Agustin Escobar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agustin_Escobar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Mobility

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/hudson-river-helicopter-crash-live-35034553

Video of chopper going down.

This will be my last post in the foreseeable time since I'll delete the account after I've posted this so I better make it count. Partly because things suck and partly because I decided to do more praxis instead of stewing online.

There's no reason to beat the dead horse that's tariffs and Trump so just a quick update, they had numbers and the numbers were really good like low inflation much lower than anticipated while Fed says 3% inflation for the year and that they don't see the need to do anything about it, meanwhile Bonds keep going up as people flee the US Dollar into gold, yen and swiss franc and other currencies like I said. US 10YR Bonds are going even higher as stock markets crap themselves as capital is fleeing the USA because shits fucked.

So I'll focus on my original hatred the germans. There's a new poll AfD is now highest polling but honestly who cares at this point, elections are still far away and there's honestly not much of a difference between CDU and AfD, it's like Pepsi and Coke, could be that they got boosted by all this fear and uncertainty could be a bigger incoming trend it's too early to tell but then again CDU is determined to go all in on what the AfD wants.

Anyways coalition time this is the new cabinet

Economy: CDU They just put a pretty incompetent guy in here who's micro fixation is getting rid of the VAT

Finance: SPD

Interior: Alexander Dobrindt CSU This guy is a massive piece of shit, racist, fascist you name it and a huge Zionist and someone that is in the pocket of car lobbies that talked about there being a 'Anti-Deportation-Industry' in germany, calling climate activists like Last Generation and XR, climate RAF something which considering he is bavarian and how criminal the police and state is there in its repression is really fucking bad.

Labour: SPD

Defence: SPD <- Guy under Scholz who is quite popular keeps his position

Infrastructure: CDU

Health: CDU

Ecology: CDU

Foreign: CDU

Family: CDU

Digital: CDU

Justice: SPD

Education: CSU <- Again these are like absolute freaks

Agricultural: CSU

Foreign Aid/Development: SPD

What did interest me about their new coalition, what they have in their 'Koalitionsvertrag', their coalition contract. So what they are going to focus on, it's a 146 page document that I've read. Well mostly the first couple of pages about how germany is under attack I skimmed because I don't care for the lamentations of the germans how things are totally unfair.

Economy

There is a ton of stuff here and most of it is really vague but the things they do mention over and over again are words like 'pragmatism, flexibility and de-regulation'. In short companies should be much less regulated and free to do whatever with a specific point being german car manufacturers who don't have to worry too much about CO2 emissions from their cars. They offset this by going 'Now you can get subsidies for EV vehicles going up to 100k' so germans will buy the newest electric Porsche or whatever.

One small thing they want to accomplish is bring down energy cost by 5 cent per kWh so that combined with less regulations might mean that they will ease sanctions on Russia to get that gas back and get cheap energy again.

Green Policies

This of course means when it comes to green policies they do a big talk about how they are comitted to goals and things, but they do not mention actual policies and my take on this is that they'll do fuck all regarding emissions and we might even see more rollbacks on those pesky laws that make polluting harmful because the overall message to me is 'All Hail the Economy' and they'll sacrifice the environment at its altar. Climate protections will get optimised aka they will get removed

National Security

Yeah guess what massive more surveillance and shit because of other countries waging 'hybrid warfare against the german state'. Now I know what you are thinking bombing Nordstream but no Germany has been in a sort of mania about Russia secretly bombing germany so that plus the 'antisemitism' will get used for a massive expansion of the surveillance state designating and deporting people for political activism which we already saw with Pro-Palestine EU-Citizens getting deported without any courts. And considering that there's even conspiracy theories that green activists are actually working for Putin there will be a massive political repression.

Social Policy

They'll reform the Bürgergeld aka former Hartz IV aka benefits will get slashed again. Oh also consumer protection is also gone.

Asylum Policy

I don't know what to tell you shit's fucked it'll be extremely fucked and will go against EU rights and law, International rights and laws, it'll be fucking bad.

This is mostly it there's other stuff but most is really vague and they've got some of the best german word people out there to write up gems like

Die klimapolitischen Sektorleitlinien werden wir flexibilisieren

Which I mean words have no meaning.

One thing that is notably absent is anything concerning combatting the rise of right-wing extremism, fascism, nazism. AfD is quite clearly a nazi party and they are permitted because well Germany is a nazi country but I think it should be repeated again that in this coalition that ran on 'we are going to stop the AfD'. They didn't put a single thing against the AfD.

Cheers notceps

Ontario schools begin suspending students who aren't fully vaccinated

germans upon hearing they will be abolishing debt ceiling for military

(i legit suspect its some kind of fiscal freaks movement from cdu to afd)

https://xcancel.com/TheStalwart/status/1910690262176747760

BOOM:

*US TOLD CHINA TO REQUEST A XI-TRUMP CALL: CNN

Plz Xi, talk to me, plz.

The US air campaign against the Houthis isn't working.

So, things are moving to the next phase: discussions of a ground offensive, led by the internationally recognized govt. out of Aden, with US and (potential) KSA/UAE support.

https://x.com/gbrew24/status/1909236629081911627

https://xcancel.com/gbrew24/status/1909236629081911627

Florida Teacher Loses Job Over Trans Student’s Name

The state is reviewing, and may rescind, her teaching certificate as a result.

First of a kind

Freikorps, but more institutional. This is exactly what ICE was created for.

Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli [sic] Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram | Drop Site News

A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel [sic]—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel [sic], according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News. The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by Israel [sic] since October 7, 2023. Israel [sic] is the biggest originator of takedown requests globally by far, and Meta has followed suit—widening the net of posts it automatically removes, and creating what can be called the largest mass censorship operation in modern history.

‘Ignorant, disrespectful’: China slams Vance for ‘peasants’ slur as tariff war intensifies | South China Morning Post

China has strongly criticised US Vice-President J.D. Vance for characterising the Chinese as “peasants” amid the escalating trade war, calling his remarks “ignorant and disrespectful”.

“China’s position on China-US economic and trade relations has been made very clear,” foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Tuesday.

“It is surprising and pathetic to hear such ignorant and disrespectful words from this vice-president.”

Lin was responding to a media query on comments made by Vance in an interview with Fox News last Thursday, a day after US President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on most trading partners – including an extra 34 per cent on Chinese imports.

Defending the levies, Vance said: “We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.

“That is not a recipe for economic prosperity, that’s not a recipe for lower prices, and that’s not a recipe for good jobs in the United States of America.”