Western China experts will claim this is a lie to hide their ignorance.

China’s export machine remained surprisingly resilient in July. Chinese global shipments rose to $332.9bn in July, an 18% increase yoy compare to 17.9% in June yoy.
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China is going to undertake new military exercises which will involve the encirclement and defence of Taiwan.

The explosion at the Saki airfield in Crimea was a result of the detonation of ammunition and not due to external missile strikes. Apparently there were no casualties and equipment at the airfield was not damaged.

The flow of oil along the south artery of the Druzhba pipeline transporting Russian crude to Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary stopped pumping five days ago.

Political instability, trade disruptions, an energy crisis and skyrocketing inflation are rendering the U.K. an “emerging market country,” according to Saxo Bank.

BoE warned last week that the U.K. economy will enter its longest recession since the GFC.

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Further update:

Ministry of Health of Crimea stated there has been 13 victims, presumably meaning fatalities but perhaps that also refers to injuries within this figure of 13.

Russian MOD further claims no external interference wrt Saki.

US winning again:

The US has seen the worst annual decline in nonfarm productivity in 74 years.

US CPI y/y July: 8.5% versus estimate 8.7% and previous 9.1%

Sanctions backfire:

Electricity bills in EU have increased by an average of 42% in 2022, whilst gas prices have increased by an average of 83%

Bloomberg writes:

No matter what indicator you use, Russian President Vladimir Putin is winning in the energy markets. Moscow is milking its oil cash cow, earning hundreds of millions of dollars every day.

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If you seriously continue to believe that there is a deliberate plan to starve us, freeze us over winter and leave us with nothing then ask yourself how that's going to play out for western govts. Think about the consequences instead of buying entertaining clickbait headlines.

Federal jury in Northern District of Illinois convicted two former precious metals traders at JPMorgan Chase & Co. today of fraud, attempted price manipulation, and spoofing in multi-year market manipulation scheme of precious metals futures contracts that spanned over eight yrs.

Currently 63% of Ukraine's coal deposits, 11% of oil deposits and 33% of mineral deposits are under Russian control.

Russia also has access to oil, gas, limestone, titanium ore, uranium, gold, zirconium ore and strontium deposits.

It is increasing, day by day.

Meanwhile in the world of adults

China and South Korea have agreed to jointly keep industrial and supply chains stable, speed up the negotiations on their bilateral FTA.

What west doesn't realise is that it was China which bailed out the western financial system in 2008 not the Fed.

GCHQ was confident it could work safely with the Chinese tech firm. American official thought otherwise and in a Cabinet Office meeting, shouted about it for five hours

US doesn't want its allies using Huawei tech because they don't have backdoor access.

https://t.co/60lwJhtntJ

The US claims to be the world's largest oil producer and yet it keeps begging OPEC+ to increase production to drive down oil prices. When that failed it began draining its SPR and manipulating the spot price.

Appears Europe is importing record amounts of Russian oil, despite claiming its going to implement a Russian oil embargo. This includes rebadged oil sales and using slightly different mixtures to get around sanctions.

Erdogan and Assad are anticipated to meet at the upcoming SCO summit.

This has the potential to be a game changer for the impasse in Syria.

India's silver imports are set to triple in 2022 yoy which approximates to around 34% of current global annual production.

This may cause a paper squeeze in the west.