A few recent jaw dropping headlines..

CHINA TO BAIL OUT SPAIN

Watched a news video that showed the leadership of Spain sit down at a table across from their Chinese counterparts with about 12 people on each side of the table.
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The Chinese looked like a conquering force signing papers after one country surrenders to another after a war.
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Some pundits say China benefits from this a variety of ways, it allows China to diversify out of dollars, keeps a competitor to the dollar the Euro afloat, opens up the possibility of dual technology transfers of going to China to give China access to more advanced weaponry , gives political leverage to China in the case of rising protectionism within the EU pretty much a win win deal for China.

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Of course this empowerment comes from the trade deficits that the US runs with China that gave China this surplus capital to give it more power.

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INDIA INVESTIGATING BUYING OIL FROM IRAN USING JAPANESE YEN , OR DIRHAM.

The Dirham I believe is some type of Gulf currency either from Qatar or U.A.E.

The main significance of this is less dollars to be needed by an major emerging economy India and further pressure on the dollar.

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PIPELINE BEGINS SUPPLYING OIL FROM RUSSIA TO CHINA.

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I believe this whole deal was done outside of the dollar in a bilateral trade arrangement between China and Russia.
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CHINA EYES BUILDING HIGH SPEED RAIL SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA

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Per article U.S. lacks both technology and expertise in high-speed rail will need outside help to build railway.

Read in comments section on this article that much of trains original technology came from Siemens the German company I don’t know if that is accurate or not.

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But this article points out that the US is much better at engineering bonds as opposed to things in the real world.