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The China Report On How Taiwan Is Indoctrinated With Anti-China Rhetoric.

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Fear of "The Black Messiah"

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Did The Trump Tariffs End Up Helping BRICS?

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 Before the tariffs, the relationship between India and China (both BRICS members even after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power). Now ? Well: Also, consider that President Trump's geopolitical meddling also made Brazil a closer ally to China .

The China Report: In the US Congress, "China Week" Is Not a Good Thing.

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 The US House of Representatives, has passed (among other things) a bill to use $1.6 billion to fund five years of anti-China messaging (i.e., propaganda). Like the video states, expect  some updated "incubator baby" stories.

Now the "100 Years In Iraq" Makes Sense...

It's funny how you find answers to one question by looking for something completely different elsewhere. I was checking out an article on askmen.com entitled, " 5 Things You Didn't Know: The Cold War " and the first "thing" hit me like a ton of bricks: 1- It cost the U.S. about $8 trillion Eminent foreign relations historian Walter LaFeber has put the U.S. military expenditures bill for the Cold War at around $8 trillion. This is a reasonable figure when you take into consideration wars in Korea and Vietnam; intervention in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Chile, Grenada, and elsewhere; psychological warfare through covert CIA operations such as the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Radio Free Europe; and, of course, the research, development, testing, and construction of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons (at a high point in the late 1960s, both the U.S. and the USSR were each spending $50 million a day on those weapons ). By way of c...