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TexasTowelie

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Tue Apr 30, 2024, 10:50 AM Apr 30

Desperate Moves As Crisis Deepens; Yuan Devaluation; EU-China: Xi's Trip, Spying & Trade - China Update



00:00 Introduction
00:12 EU-China: Xi’s Trip, Spying & Trade
08:34 Chinese Economy: Housing Crisis & Currency

Post-production note from Tony:
Correction: At 0:33 I meant to say Serbia, not Siberia. My apologies.
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Desperate Moves As Crisis Deepens; Yuan Devaluation; EU-China: Xi's Trip, Spying & Trade - China Update (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 30 OP
Xi hopes to break up the US-Europe alliance. Irish_Dem Apr 30 #1

Irish_Dem

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1. Xi hopes to break up the US-Europe alliance.
Tue Apr 30, 2024, 12:11 PM
Apr 30

And seduce Europe again into looking away from China's complicity with Russia in the Ukraine invasion.

Xi is desperate, his economy is tanking and he must be allowed to export Chinese good across Europe.

But Europe may resist, cheap goods flooding Europe doesn't help their domestic workers.
And they are leery of China and Russia now.

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