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[quote="eynon81"][quote="Kane"]Outside of this the other important consideration is China. Consider:

- Chinese export growth has declined rapidly among lower level businesses (layoffs are commonplace) due to EM nations not preparing for the Federal Reserve's tightening (Or at least market expectations thereof)
- China hasn't migrated out of an economy driven by exports
- China is deleveraging itself now
- China may have trouble meeting its 7.5% goal for the year

A lot of this is happenstance but lots of it could be interpreted as intentional (Via us utilizing our reserve currency status to our own ends).

I think...this time is different.[/quote]

on the social policy front Beijing has been acting very strange going after Christians, gays, artists, even non-mandarin speakers. things seems a bit more repressive than when I was there.

Any-who if something big is going to happen I hope it happens soon, Non wants to get WW3 over-with before having kids.[/quote]
Amen bring it on.

it's humorous that putin has dropped any pretense of this not being a war with the west. he's been dropping threats of nuclear annihilation re ukraine+NATO for months now.

pretty sure this is going to end in a war. probably not over ukraine, but it will end in a war within my lifetime. either when georgia joins NATO or when kazakhstan pulls out of the soviet reunion