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July 2025

Another Chinese Dollar-Killer: Gold For Oil
If you've got oil, China's got gold–the second-most traded financial commodity after the dollar.
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China's Week, July 27
Trump's 'AI Action Plan' gets giggles; 2 provinces pass Singapore’s $1 trillion GDP; Social Credit explained; Ursula's airport bus; YouTube deletes…
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China's Engineering Miracle Is The Most Expensive In World History
At what cost? $167 billion.
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China's Week, July 19
New 5G fighter joins the fleet. Mind-controlled bees. Organ regeneration switch. 77,000 STEM PhD grads this year. 18% of homes mortgaged, and much, much…
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The Great Leap Reconsidered. Part Four.
What the CIA found.
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Mightier Dragon: The J-20 Grows Up
It's the infrastructure, stupid. And the missiles. And the radar. And the engine. And the drones...China's fifth generation fighter-bomber gets an…
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China's Week, July 10.
600km/h maglev, ASML killer, Battery prices fall 40%, BRICS $1 trillion trade, 470,000 tons of REEs found, Short dramas' $8 billion, Building J-20s in 8…
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China's Dollar Killer
The Fed has neither e-dollars nor stablecoins. The PBOC has both. Can America's privatized Stablecoins beat China's central bank Stablecoins?
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The Great Leap Reconsidered. Part Three.
"I lived through the Cultural revolution, then did field work in China in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This is what I saw and heard”. Dongping Han.
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