Reality for western corporations:

BMW will continue to deepen cooperation with its Chinese partners due to China's market and strong innovation capability.

Reality sets in:

EU is set to begin negotiations with Moscow in the next few months for supplies of Russian gas.

Western based financial sector is very likely going to drastically reduce its head count in the next 12 to 24 months.

Businesses in this sector will become leaner via cost cutting measures and also strategic changes to reflect the broader shift away from unipolarity.

You can see via Brazil yesterday, how the influence of external forces to destabilise a nation has rapidly become a much diminished MO in the last 3 years.

If China was in terminal decline as these western Chinese experts continually like to say, then US would not have spent last 4 yrs trying to destroy it economically, convince its allies it is totally unreliable and start a war between China and Taiwan.

China appears to going to increase its oil import demand by 20 to 25% in H1 of 2023, yoy.

No prizes for guessing what that will do to the oil price if so.

Looking forward to the day when conventional wisdom will have written the west off and we are reporting about how the west is beginning its own renaissance and the US is seeking to become a great national amongst equals.

There is no doubt there are some Russian telegram groups that are clueless attention seekers.

As ever unlike others we don't pretend to have insight into operational activities wrt Ukraine.

It's a war, what else would you seriously expect to be the case?

Condoleezza Rice:

Although Ukraine's response to invasion has been heroic and its armed forces have performed brilliantly, its economy is in decline, millions of people have fled, its infrastructure has been destroyed, and much of its minerals, industrial capacity, and much of its agricultural land is under Russian control.

Does this sound like someone who believes Ukraine is winning?

In the first 11 months of 2022, China's trade with the RCEP increased 7.9% yoy to 11.8tn yuan, accounting for 30.8% of China's total foreign trade value.

Interesting to see how particularly Americans believe China is dependant on exports to the US for its economic survival. All they are demonstrating is their obvious lack of awareness of the developments within China and with the Global South in the last decade.

Elements within Beltway have decided Russia is impossible to crack so now they want to turn their attention once again to China and Taiwan.

Their desperation is palpable.

Written over 6 years ago.

As ever as we move towards the new paradigm, the context of meetings is lost on many analysts and commentators because they are unable to see an end to US hegemony and the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

https://www.thesiriusreport.com/geopolitics/significance-russia-saudi-oil-agreement/

We are now finally seeing an analysis of multipolarity which is stating what we laid out years ago.

It's why we are now writing the e-book to reflect the time line of events leading up to where we are today.

Written also over 6 years:

The New Silk Road, or One Belt One Road (OBOR) project, includes countries situated on the original Silk Road through Central Asia, West Asia, the Middle East, and Europe

https://www.thesiriusreport.com/economics/obor-initiative-new-paradigm/

Silk Road Economic Belt will be an overland network of road, rail and pipelines connecting China’s east coast with Europe via a new Eurasian land bridge. Five regional corridors will branch off land bridge.

Mongolia and Russia to North, South East Asia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to the South, and central Asia, West Asia and Europe to the West.

Interesting that the US reduced the number of naval transits it made through the Taiwan Strait in 2022 to the lowest level in four years.

Another wake-up call:

China's car exports in 2022 were up 50% yoy and more importantly has now surpassed Germany as the world’s second largest exporter of cars.

Clown show continues:

So Stoltenberg says in one breath that NATO and EU have depleted military stocks due to the Ukraine war and yet in the next breath they must provide more.