We are all going to have a pity party for Mark.

March 6, 2023

Billionaire investor (click here) and founder Mobius Capital Partners Mark Mobius told FOX Business he cannot take his money out of China due to the country's capital controls, cautioning investors to be "very, very careful" about investing in an economy under a tight government grip.

"I'm personally affected because I have an account with HSBC in Shanghai. I can't get my money out. The government is restricting the flow of money out of the country," Mobius told FOX Business host Maria Bartiromo. "So I would be very, very careful investing in China."

"I can't get an explanation of why they're doing this ... They're putting all kinds of barriers. They don't say: No, you can't get your money out. But they say: give us all the records from 20 years of how you made this money ... This is crazy." he added....

China doesn't want it anymore. Wall Street made lots of money while they had their investments in China, but, the party is over.

I have a hard time thinking Mark Mobius doesn't understand why he can't get his money back. This is an easy one, Mark. 

China is a communist country. Everything in China and the stuff it can steal belongs to China. American investors will lose everything they left in China. No. The American government doesn't have to apologize and make Wall Street whole. That is called calculated risk and if Wall Street CHOSE to ignore the deaths in Hong Kong and the fly overs of Taiwan, then they warn't good at what they do.

Communist countries are defined by a collective interest by the government. I think Xi recently was quoted as saying the private interest in China will serve the purpose of the government. No clue. This is not an alarming reality. 

The most dramatic reality of the control communists have over private citizens is Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou.

September 24, 2021

...The deal was reached as President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping (click here) have sought to tamp down signs of public tension — even as the world’s two dominant economies are at odds on issues as diverse as cybersecurity, climate change, human rights and trade and tariffs. Biden said in an address before the U.N. General Assembly earlier this week that he had no intention of starting a “new Cold War,” while Xi told world leaders that disputes among countries “need to be handled through dialogue and cooperation.”

As part of the deal, disclosed in federal court in Brooklyn, the Justice Department agreed to dismiss the fraud charges against Meng in December 2022 — exactly four years after her arrest — provided that she complies with certain conditions, including not contesting any of the government’s factual allegations. The Justice Department also agreed to drop its request that Meng be extradited to the U.S., which she had vigorously challenged, ending a process that prosecutors said could have persisted for months.

Meng’s attorneys said they fully expect the charges to be dismissed in 14 months. “We’re very pleased that in the meantime she can go home to her family,” said defense lawyer Michelle Levin....

So for Mark and people like Mark, some of us can empathize with your pain at the loss of your money, but, there is little sympathy for such decisions. Mark and his friends should channeling President Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but, what you can do for your country."

When billionaires wake up to news of citizens standing up for their civil rights in China are murdered, their financial interests in such governmental overreach should be very telling as to where their money belongs other than China.

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China has been pilfering American secrets for at least the last decade since Xi came to power.

March 8, 2023
By Dan DeLuce

With Washington and Beijing (click here) locked in a tense superpower rivalry, the United States faces a daunting task in discerning the intentions of leaders in a country where power is increasingly concentrated and surveillance widespread, former American intelligence officials said.

Reliable information about decision-making in China is in high demand in Washington amid fears Beijing could opt to arm Russian forces waging war in Ukraine or try to seize control of Taiwan by force....

Realizing the USA has been pilfered by China for at least a decade, the USA should carry out the obstruction of Chinese spying the German's have adopted. And China has the audacity to complain as if they have a right to because it might make them unpopular. Everyone knows there is nothing that goes together more than full blown Capitalism and Communism.

March 8, 2023
By Arjun Kharpal

China's embassy in Germany (click here) said it is "puzzled and strongly dissatisfied" after a report suggested Berlin is planning to ban some equipment from Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE in its 5G telecommunications networks on national security grounds.

On Tuesday, Reuters reported, citing a government source, that Germany is considering banning certain components from Chinese firms in its mobile networks.

A paper by the German interior ministry which was obtained by Reuters said a specific supplier could be banned from providing critical components if it were deemed to be directly or indirectly controlled by the government of another state.

If the rules came into effect, it could mean ripping out equipment that is already installed in networks and replacing it with other suppliers, an interior ministry spokesperson told Reuters....

The only place where gender equality is recognized within communism on an international level is the sister of North Korea's Un.

March 8, 2023
by Rachel Triesman

Both women and men (click here) are likely to live longer when a country makes strides towards gender equality, according to a new global study that authors believe to be the first of its kind.

The study was published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health this week, just ahead of International Women's Day. It adds to a growing body of research showing that advances in women's rights benefit everyone.

"This International Women's Day, let's not forget that the evidence demonstrates that enhancing women's representation across multiple sectors contributes to wealthier and, hence, healthier societies for all," lead author Cat Pinho-Gomes, a research fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and Imperial College London, said in a release....

The gap between China and the USA is getting wider and wider and wider. FINALLY!

March 8, 2023
By Ishaan Tharoor

Last month, (click here) the Chinese Foreign Ministry published a 4,000-word tract titled “U.S. Hegemony and Its Perils.” The document, which was sent out by the Chinese Embassy to journalists in Washington, including Today’s WorldView, purported to present the “relevant facts” of a near-century of American interference and meddling on the world stage. It’s a catalogue of grievances that casts the United States as a hypocritical superpower, advancing its own self-interests on the pretext of high-minded values, while leaving a trail of abuse and harm in its wake.

Whatever the validity of these historical claims, the real Chinese animus is about the present. “Clinging to the Cold War mentality, the United States has ramped up bloc politics and stoked conflict and confrontation,” the document warned, echoing the near-constant refrain from Chinese officials about current U.S. policy....

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The war in Ukraine is a good cover for Putin's annihilation strategies.

March 8, 2023
By Amanda Macias

Washington - Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) is likely to further upgrade the Kremlin's arsenal of long-range nuclear-capable missiles in order to deter Kyiv and its powerful Western allies, U.S. officials warned Wednesday.

The warning from the nation's top spymasters comes as Russia intensifies its now year-long fight in Ukraine and as Putin threatens to withdraw from a key nuclear arms treaty.

"Throughout its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has continued to show that it views its nuclear capabilities as necessary for maintaining deterrence and achieving its goals in a potential conflict against the U.S. and NATO and it sees its nuclear weapons arsenal as the ultimate guarantor of the Russian Federation," the nation's top intelligence agency wrote in its annual threat report.

The unclassified 35-page intelligence assessment adds that Moscow will become more dependent on nuclear weapons following significant battlefield losses and punishing rounds of sanctions that have crippled the Kremlin's ability to finance its war machine....

It is time to treat Post-Soviet states as if they are just as important to Wall Street as China was treated. I realize there is a process to join the EU, but, that is a national dialogue, Wall Street is not a national dialogue. The Post-Soviet states have to be treated with the respect they deserve in taking on the world as autonomous entities and introduce a larger economy to them to nurture and bear fruit.

President Biden and other leaders of the Free World need to visit these countries as well as Ukraine. The Free World needs to talk to the people of these counties so they understand what a free and autonomous people can do both in prosperity, but, also in providing longevity which speaks to quality of life. The people need to hear it from the leaders that have their best interest in mind.

March 8, 2023

By Sophie Tanno and Niamh Kennedy

Protests have erupted in Georgia (click here) this week after the country’s parliament passed the first reading of a draft law that would require some organizations receiving foreign funding to register as “foreign agents.”

It has been compared to a draconian set of laws adopted in Russia and condemned by rights groups as a bid to curtail basic freedoms and crack down on dissent in the country.

The developments have sparked mass unrest, with thousands of demonstrators gathering outside Tbilisi’s parliament building on Tuesday night, waving not just the Georgian flag but also that of the European Union.

The country, which won its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, has long been playing a balancing act between its citizens’ pro-European sentiment and the geopolitical aims of its powerful neighbor, Russia.

In March 2022, Georgia applied for EU membership – an ambition that may be jeopardized by the proposed legislation.

Here’s a look at what the controversial law means for Georgia, and how it reached this point....

The Rule of Law

 The Republican Party is planning a populist project to visit January 6th inmate as if they are political prisoners. This is a willful act the trample the USA Constitution’s Rule of Law that separates autocratic rule of a dictator from that of a democracy.

There is no doubt this is an act against our Constitutional Republic.