U.S. Panic: As China PEELS Away Japan, Tokyo Has Signaled Massive USD Sell-Off In 2025

[@SeanFooGold]

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[@nbeizaie]

None of these matter! As long as Israel is there (apartheid and under US's thumb) the road and belt will never come into effect. Maybe the US suggested plan goes ahead. China's reactivity (and not boycotting trade with them) is seemed as a weakness by the world. The world sees that Chinese will accept/do anything for a trade. That is not a good look. People are not stupid ....

[@rogerburn5132]

SEAN Merry Christmas and Happy New year All the Best Wishes to You and your family 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

[@helgiyngling]

@@nbeizaie Think further, much further, the chinese are known to think in centuries. They wrote the Art of War long long before the usa was founded on the blood of the former inhabitants, do not underestimate one of the oldest cultures on the planet. And , to cite from american culture :) , " Stupid is as stupid does " have a piece of popcorn and some soft drink and sit down to watch for some centuries how the chinese steamroll over the idiots that think they can outthink the longgame of the chinese . They have my respect.

[@nbeizaie]

@helgiyngling Not really! It is not centuries ago. It would take years to go from one side of the silk road to the other side. It now takes only hours to do that. Chinese are stuck in in the past the same way US is stuck in the WWII era and policies ...

[@hongeeng4756]

SEA wont convert to ev soon😂😅

[@Pintsize4373]

The Rest of the World Moves onnn…while America has a tantrum

[@GoodBaleadaMusic]

Its not just America. This represents a continuous program of global terror going back to Portugal and Spain. That is system the US won from Britain and Britain won from Europe. That is what "liberals" and conservatives" fight over. Controlling other people's resources. The West has no tools for survival. It was always going to be cringe. The next phase of loss psychology is going to be serious. For us all. LETS DO IT!!!

[@Lowo88]

America is not what you think they need to give the land back source is coming they already here.

[@oneofmany1087]

even a Dog has enough brains to get out of the rain.

[@JL882jets]

@@Pintsize4373 It's a sign of fear and confusion. All from a lack of leadership for many years. The country and it's people were neglected , while the top were filling their pockets from greed. We can go on with pages of reasons but it will have to start from a new beginning with humble leadership and i don't see one yet.

[@tonyyong4441]

Crying over spill milk. Sulking

[@kennyjohnson2771]

As an American, I am very worry where America is heading. Unfortunately, too many Americans are too occupied or dumped to realize things will get worse. The government is run by idiots from both parties. God help us!!!

[@ConscienceTruth]

Trump and Biden are the best leaders for MAGA. Both are exceptional with RARE QUALIFICATIONS IN ECONOMICS AND FINANCE FROM TOP USA IVY LEAGUES. THEIR THESIS IS HOW TO PROTECT YOUR SELF INTERESTS , NEXT YOUR SON, FAMILIES INCLUDING CRONIES , WHILST REPEATEDLY SEEKING CHAPTER 11 PROTECTION….WOW WHAT RARE SPECIMENS OF HUMAN INTELLECT CHOSEN TO BE THE TOP LEADER OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND POWERFUL COUNTRY ON THIS FRAGILE PLANET . THE REST OF WORLD CAN ONLY ENVY THE AMERICANS FOR BILITY TO CHOOSE SUCH HIGH ACHIEVERS AS PRESIDENT…..WE THE HUMBLED THIRD WORLD SALUTE AMERICA.

[@sootuckchoong7077]

Jesus is coming soon. Stay put.

[@rootbeer4888]

Your decades too late. You let your private central bank print 10s of trillions of dollars. "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered" -Thomas Jefferson

[@ChibbyLibrariansAnimeEnc-vl9px]

America is doing really good lately everyone joined nato russia lost its influence in eu Palestine is gone Syria is toppled over American oil exports are at a record high main competitors EU is losing all of its companies to America America is at its strongest point in history

[@ChibbyLibrariansAnimeEnc-vl9px]

i forgot to mention BRICS currency fell apart

[@kenlim4204]

Trump cannot do much if the world can unite together to counter Trump's actions

[@calvinang1]

💯

[@richardwilliams1986]

At least we'll all now have to work 24/7 in factories

[@Lee_303]

@@richardwilliams1986 US private equity firms already doing that in place like the UK, buying up the big businesses, laying off the local staff & replacing them with the poorest people of Eastern Europe who will happily live 10 - 20 people in a mouldy house & do all the forced overtime they're told to do,

[@12313846]

The world is uniting..... With brics.

[@rak6223]

BIG "IF"

[@kenho-wr5ul2rh7m]

USD is eating prosperity and future from everyone Japan is trying to save herself from USD

[@swojnowski453]

only the US benefits, all the prosperity goes back there, this has to stop, 4% of people can't live off the rest of us as they are used to, much longer.

[@Chief-q6r]

Bingo

[@frank1424]

The Wiorld is trying to save itself form the evil Weaponised USA Dollar.❤❤❤❤ BRICS is the Bright New Future of Free Fair Trade and Commerce away from Awful Sanction Crazy USA, its Awful Dollar and evil IMF Loan sharks. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Viva BRICS .❤❤❤❤❤ Viva China.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ (from UK)

[@MrSummerbreeze01]

Japan has TWICE the DEBT per Capita than the US. Look it up.

[@somnuknordbotn2657]

Now or never.

[@stevanrozic4638]

Japan is a occupied country 😔

[@timgibson3754]

An occupied country

[@tramp2827]

Who occupies it?? Aside from Japanese? Where do these silly people come from???

[@carolbaird8659]

So is Korea

[@larryc1616]

Do you want China to occupy instead?

[@jacquelineperet6599]

​@larryc1616 China never has occupied onother nation

[@Theoriginialdonguillory]

China has no dependence on Japan. Japan wants access to Chinese markets.

[@GoodBaleadaMusic]

Manufacturing.

[@qjtvaddict]

Of course look at geography!!!

[@sootuckchoong7077]

Seems Japanese people don't like Chinese to visit their hotels, restaurants or shops.

[@steinbauge4591]

@@rootbeer4888 China also produces a whole lot of food, they have started converting desert land to pork producing land, successfully.

[@bizhope007]

@@rootbeer4888China does not depend on Japan for their food though.

[@sonnyjim5268]

Countries are being forced to choose, the US or China. China is the world's manufacturer, the US is the world's manufacturer of printed money. Who would you choose?

[@lactusgalacto1174]

FIAT money.😁😁😁

[@labandonaldhock80]

@@sonnyjim5268 China rules!

[@sengeejee3612]

And sell to who? Lol

[@sengeejee3612]

The Chinese economy is imploding

[@lactusgalacto1174]

@@sengeejee3612 FIAT money not back by Gold or Silver. worthless.

[@1hjehje]

It's hard to find a lot of sympathy for Japan. What Japan did to China in the 1930s was barbaric and beyond imagination. Iris Chang wrote a book about the "Rape of Nanking" which describes the Chinese holocaust where hundreds of thousands of defenceless Chinese citizens were killed and tortured by Japan. Still to this day, Japan considers these butchers to be war heroes and honours them every year which is a direct insult to the people of China.

[@ehjj1723]

In order to improve Sino Japanese relationship Japan must apologize for its war crimes against China, which I don't see the possibility of it happening.

[@pascoalnetflix192]

Japan is quite different after 2 Nukes. There are many children there to keep it vivid. What 4 to 5 generations did decades ago to the Chinese can be easily understood as something to blame. Time and ( need for ) money are good reason to change a country pride.

[@gohkianhui3997]

It's a stain in history for sure. But we have choice to cast the sins of the parents on the new generations or learn to move forward. Japanese had tried to amend relationship in the past with funding official development assistant (ODA) to rebuild China infrastructure from 1994-1998 and tried to set up joint communique to settle the war reparations. I hope for the sake of not repeating the history for our future generations like the Genocid3 in Gaz3 by J3ws citing holoc3ust, China-japan can show us the way forward 🙏

[@LW78321]

I agree, the government needs to properly apologise for the atrocities they committed during WW2 and not alter their history books to hide their crimes ​@@ehjj1723

[@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt]

And ZERO apologies so far…….

[@cheungchingtong]

I don't know what panics it more, that JP's FM visiting China for better relationship, or China's two new 6th gen came out today sending "Merry the fking Christmas" to the Pentagon.

[@bilguunnyamaa7767]

Scary times

[@ZIGZAG12345]

Can you elaborate on the "Sending Merry fing Xmas"/6th gen jet part??

[@naapsuvaimne740]

usa will be replaced 100%

[@widodoakrom3938]

Lol

[@cheungchingtong]

​@@ZIGZAG12345 They test flied two different models of 6th gen fighter jet/fighter-bomber today. One accompanied by a two-seat 5th gen, the J-20S, and another by a 4.5th gen, the J16. And they showed them deliberately in daytime on slow speed above cities so people could film.

[@tinatang1]

Japan has no choice - either pivot towards BRICS or sink with the US and EU. Japan should prioritise being a good neighbour in the East instead of being a satellite of the US empire. She should see how the EU is suffering because of US policy towards Russia.

[@mission9195]

Well said…

[@minh_le_...........1384]

@tinatang1, Japan's dictatorial ruling party LDP was created by the US in 1955 to rule Japan ever since, taking order and directive from USA. If Japan wants liberation, it has to do something about the LDP first. I too hope for a BRICS pivot, but let's see if USA is willing to let it go without destroying it like it did back in 1989.

[@instructionalvideos2309]

EVERYONE needs to pivot to BRICS.

[@mission9195]

Irony of tariffs accelerating the process of de-dollarization is fascinating.

[@masnur7007]

A ROLEX watch sales executive in Singapore once told me that when Amerikans/Europeans want to buy a Rolex watch they ask "HOW MUCH EACH?". China tourists ask "HOW MANY YOU HAVE?" .... duh!

[@patrickkoh1056]

Same with LV

[@patrickkoh1056]

How many? What's newest?

[@jacquelineperet6599]

😂 good one!

[@janenewman8939]

The rest of the world that America doesn't care about is fed up. Had to happen. The world doesn't revolve around America..

[@dannylo5875]

Lol😂

[@notchit3542]

While Trump was opening he's Christmas presents yesterday, Asia was conducting business as usual.

[@Peter-m5n7m]

Henry Kissinger - 'It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.'

[@gunkwretch3697]

I am in Canada, their "best friend" ... gods help us

[@Technoanima]

Merry Christmas to you and your family Sean!!!

[@irritatedanglosaxon1705]

F O Jesus the imperialist

[@Zerpentsa6598]

Japan should throw off thr shackles of US imperialism and work with China.

[@minh_le_...........1384]

Well said. Japan's dictatorial ruling party LDP was created by the US in 1955 to rule Japan ever since, taking order and directive from USA. If Japan wants liberation, it has to do something about the LDP first. I too hope for a BRICS pivot, but let's see if USA is willing to let it go without destroying it like it did back in 1989.

[@Arend-q8p]

NOTHING would please me more than the development of a real, stable, longterm partnership - economic, political, technological, cultural, educational, and even military - between China and Japan.

[@IOPan418]

That would be a major threat if Japan started pivoting to the East and also resume militarization.

[@nightelfuser]

China only wants to deepen ties with Japan in order to undermine the US. China has not forgotten what Japan did 80y ago.

[@jascforfun7576]

The US would regimechange Japan before letting that happen.

[@theprophet489]

​@IOPan418 every one is threatening except the bully 😂😂😂

[@thisiskevin1000]

50+ years of formal diplomatic relations and thousands of years of interactions as neighboring countries

[@gordo7659-v9o]

Excellent presentation. The world should isolate the US, dump the dollar, and trade in their own currencies.

[@MPKD-ws8ng]

Keep dreaming about this idea, As much as everyone wants to hate the American dollar it will take decades upon decades and probably beyond your lifetime before anything happens to devalue the American dollar.. China is in massive deep shit throughout their entire country, and all those deals that they have made with countries in Africa and South America will ultimately realize they are stepping into a trap..

[@songasalimsaleh1035]

*Sean, as a Ugandan 🇺🇬 student in Japan 🇯🇵🗾, I spent time doing part-time jobs here in Japan 🇯🇵🗾 🎌, asides the Napalies, CHINESE are the only people you find providing the much needed labour in the industries that require physical labour. That explains that the Chinese rise is simply unstoppable.*

[@teatree6228]

Those chinese you say are actually Japanese descendants from China after the war, and are bilingual. They are Japanese, and many have returned to China as they find living in Japan stressful and discriminatory.

[@genbond7459]

What are you babbling about? Read carefully, he said in Japan! ​@@teatree6228

[@HTeo-og1lg]

@@teatree6228 . One estimate puts that population around 2-3 millions only. Yep, they are fluent in Japanese.

[@MundaneDave]

Given this timeline, I'm waiting for Trump to say he's taking back Japan.

[@RiotforPeacePlz]

Think it's the 55th state so lol

[@jacquelineperet6599]

He already occupied it 😂

[@sciagurrato1831]

As if countries trading with other in non-USD are going to send monthly reports to the Humpty Dumpty 😂

[@Ace1000ks]

BOJ will have to sell off their US t-bonds to save their currency. Japan will do less trade with the US, and they will do more trade with China and other countries. The same thing will happen with countries in the EU, they will trade more with China and other countries. They will use less USD in conducting international trade. As for the US, they can make more stuff in the US, but very few countries around the world will buy them. Stuff made in the US is expensive due to the high cost of living there. Less people in the US can buy them as well, which will cause US financial markets to decline over time.

[@TakeThis-z7v]

If what they produced is not sold as much, then they’ll have an over capacity!

[@Ace1000ks]

@@TakeThis-z7v Even what that over capacity, they won't be able to export it, because there are similar products that cost much less. LOL

[@helgiyngling]

@@TakeThis-z7v 😆 Yes and what will Janet say 🤣😇

[@bobsmith3983]

@helgiyngling Janet will have to bow some more and beg other countries to buy US products.

[@instructionalvideos2309]

Why anyone would invest or buy anything from the USA is beyond me.

[@honahwikeepa2115]

Merry Christmas from Sydney Australia. Long live China.

[@dilara4130]

I'm planning to retire at 59 in another country outside the US that is free, safe and very cheap with a high quality of life and good healthcare. I could fully just rely on only my SS if I wanted to when that times arrives but l'll also have at least one pension, a 403 (b) and a very prolific Investment account with my Stephanie Stiefel my FA. Retiring comfortably in the US these days is almost impossible

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[@JessieeAlmar]

I’m planning on moving to Thailand in the next 5 years if trump’s government doesn’t do anything with the high prices of groceries and taxes What about you??

[@aydin6219]

Been debt free for two years thanks to Stephanie Janis Stiefel. So sad to see my friends in their 40s with car loans, mortgages and credit card debt.

[@emmabeyza6036]

My sister lives in Aussie. They have good healthcare better than America. I am also moving there after I retire.

[@YaxelBurone]

Please stop gentrifying countries

[@1o1s1s1i1e]

Thank you Sean! Go BRICS!

[@Opeth221]

BRICS Nations are done.

[@sengeejee3612]

@@Opeth221 agreed 100%

[@MrjackieG]

The US says to China: "We will not sell you any more bread". China responds: "OK, we will not sell you any more flour and we will make our own bread".

[@PK-xu7gu]

Trump is the best thing that has happened to the world. Americans think he's going to fix America, he's an endless supply if memes and he's going to take on the whole world with tariffs 😂😂😂😂. Couldn't make it up.

[@lokix19azxc13]

Trump fixing us is like saving a burning building with a bucket of water. It is inevitable.

[@helgiyngling]

Popcorn and soft drinks, it is going to be something 😁

[@HTeo-og1lg]

Not certain of it is going to be "the best thing that has happened to the world", but it would make geopolitical news more entertaining than Joe's time, at least. 😁😁

[@LeMon-wb1sl]

What did Japan offer China in return? - China allows resumption of JP seafood imports = benefits Japan - Japan ease visa rules for Chinese tourists = benefits Japan

[@widodoakrom3938]

Japan invest more in china=benefits China

[@virgiliomateus4239]

China wants to better relations with neighbors. And this JP gov perhaps think the trying military supremacy over china is a way with death end, at least with no final profits for JP.

[@nurainiarsad7395]

this is a very western binary transaction way of thinking. it is beneficial for china - and the rest of asia - for japan to identify as asian (which they are) rather than imperialist/western. it makes the region instantly safer and opens the possibility that japan could one day recover it’s sovereignty from the US (also benefits japan), which then makes asia exponentially safer (benefits everyone in asia). that’s what japan “offers”, not that this way of thinking makes sense in this context.

[@Withnail1969]

@@nurainiarsad7395 Well yes. It's a good thing for China to show Japan they aren't the bad guys.

[@sunnyj7257]

​@@Withnail1969 Even though Japan, historically, has been the bad guy😂.

[@justingriffin2546]

Kevin from 'inside china business' just put out a video outlining China's new tech for making steel will make Americas steel industry meaningless...

[@Lennonrx8]

Its a scary unthinkable achievement when i first heard of it. It can makes China the only metal product suppliers in the world. Australian are shivering as higher grade iron ore will seem to be obsolete. 😅😅😅

[@bobsmith3983]

@@Lennonrx8 Not only their high grade iron ore not being needed but also their metallurgical coal as the new Chinese iron making process does not use any coal. Double whammy.

[@jerrysamuels1113]

If Japan joins BRICS then I say it's game over for the dollar.

[@gamerdudegamerdude4961]

not gonna happen ever as US still have military bases there to harrass or seize control whenever necessarry.

[@sunshinesun121]

Never let a know TRAITOR into your HOME.

[@hclau218]

Japan does not qualify.... Stop dreaming.

[@poros4588]

Japan is a USA colony

[@naapsuvaimne740]

@@hclau218 wtf lmao all these poor 3 rd world nation can but japan cant?

[@jetli80]

Japan and China has more culturally in common and economics. These two plus Korea would make a very strong hegemony in Asia and actually stabilizing the region for prosperity

[@Raynepengau]

Be cautious of Japan . It rise has to be securitized and check! Japan cannot be too strong, troubles is imminent and fearful- not remembering the deed and trouble they cause even today they have not repented and very ambitious

[@korana6308]

👍Merry Xmas Sean👍

[@irritatedanglosaxon1705]

F O Jesus the imperialist

[@labandonaldhock80]

The US can not survive the time frame involved in the change in import volume. Will take years to replace by any means.

[@gmac8586]

...that's why it's Game Over for the US.

[@prossi4216]

The US have been reducing their manufacturing base for decades. Even with tariffs, it will take a long time to rebuild that capacity and close the trade deficit.

[@labandonaldhock80]

@ we no longer have machine shops to build dies and molds, nor the personnel to work there. Will never happen. None of it. 18-30 year olds will not work, 30-60 can but wont, the rest are retired

[@labandonaldhock80]

@ we no longer have machine shops to build dies and molds, nor the personnel to work there. Will never happen. None of it. 18-30 year olds will not work, 30-60 can but wont, the rest are retired

[@instructionalvideos2309]

Why anyone would invest in the USA or buy anything from the USA is beyond me.

[@ronniecheong2146]

Better be friends than enemies work n cooperate for prosperity for the benefit of the people in both countries

[@swojnowski453]

Be friends? Cooperate? No, humans are not built for it. Intelligence demands competition. It holds us by the balls. We will not cooperate unless we have alien invasion threatening the very existence of our species. If I were describe our species in a couple of words, it would be: Only one can survive.

[@tinatang1]

Make friends with your neighbours. They are never going away. Why make enemies with your neighbours to support a friend an ocean away and who have proven to be a totally unreliable ally, all the time since 1945?

[@teatree6228]

Wang Yi ia fluent in Japanese and is educated in Japanese history and ancient japanese literature.

[@jaytea1591]

He looks like he's Japanese more so than Chinese tbh

[@davidrichards1741]

Ancient japanese culture is adopted from ancient chinese culture. Cuz guess where the japanese and their culture originally came from?!!

[@UpShiftTypeR]

And ancient Japanese literature was written 100% in classical Chinese.

[@trfgshdtg4577]

Japan-China should form an alliance (military included).

[@IOPan418]

That would be a major threat to the West.

[@larryc1616]

They're enemies. That's like saying a S Korea-China alliance. Stop smoking crack!

[@ehjj1723]

Not a chance, wounds cannot be healed that easily especially when the perpetrator does not have an iota of guilt, shame or conscience.

[@UpShiftTypeR]

That would be a nightmare come true for the west. But you know what, it is not far-fetched. China and Japan are eternal neighbors as the Japanese FM said in Beijing. The Japanese are not stupid, they see the trend and they know American hegemon is coming to an end. It is only a matter of time.

[@Raynepengau]

Japan is not the right party they are aggressive and ambitious, No reglad of their past doing only waiting for another pound!!!

[@greggpon7466]

For the record US steels purchase by Nippon is actually a great idea for the USA and us steel stockholders. China just invented a process that cuts the price of making iron by a huge margin. One tenth of the time and energy to make steel.

[@jecinasema5190]

A significant gamechanger indeed.

[@greggpon7466]

@ actually more research indicates a 30% decrease in energy usage is most re realistic. Less saving But still a game changer. Invented by the guy who invented a similar copper smelting process. For the record China smelts 97% of all the copper being currently smelted according to google.

[@reo52]

Japan engages the world with trade--not with bombs. As near as I can tell, Japan's tariff on Chinese EVs is 0% vs. the US tariff of 102.5%.

[@ronsmyth2005]

They tried bombs. They failed.

[@oribarsan9873]

USA coined the term ‘hermit country’ for North Korea. Looks like they might have to use that term for themselves….

[@GreenIsland38]

Good move by Japan, now join BRICS. Improving relations with Russia would also strengthen Japans situation. Russian Gas, Oil, Raw materials and Agriculture products would make Japan much less dependant on other suppliers.

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[@Logic105]

Merrry Christmas Sean

[@josephszot5545]

The Japan FM was in Beijing meeting with Wang Yi couple days ago, looking for a win-win deal.

[@swojnowski453]

no such thing as win-win deal, there is no free energy in the world, someone always loses energy for someone other to get it. You know that everything, everything is about energy, its form does not matter.

[@josephszot5545]

@@swojnowski453 No China is turning in US printed paper IOU's for US dollars worth .03 cents compared to a 1913 US dollar. Then they are buying more gold! The US reserves have not had forensic audited since 1953 man that's a long time.

[@alanbgtan]

@@swojnowski453 you can’t think outside the box hey?! Japan can buy fuel from China and China can buy seafood from Japan

[@swojnowski453]

@@josephszot5545 Yup, you can't trust Americans. not for a single second. The Chinese know that as well as any friend of America.

[@Super-Thomas-911]

@@swojnowski453 Your theory is the law of conservation of energy, but it doesn't apply here. In fact, the amount of energy that humans possess now is far too little for this world. By cooperating to discover and utilize more energy, a win-win situation can be achieved.

[@adambeauchamp970]

Great Job! You are ahead on your competition!

[@sgec1973]

Always a pleasure..!!

[@ronsmyth2005]

American workers on a level playing field is the problem. They aren't good enough to compete successfully.

[@GoodBaleadaMusic]

They never will be again. If toilet paper gets 1% softer Americans start posting on Tiktok.

[@pctrashtalk2069]

They are going to go to human form robots.

[@oneofmany1087]

with a wage from 1980 23.11 an hour and today doing the same job 15-25 an hour. the difference today is 90% Mexican's and back in 1980 it was 90% white Men doing the work in the trades. I have lived it. I started in 1973 at 2.50 an hour and I worked for the same company up until 1979 at that time they paid 14.50 the next year the wage went up to 23.11 an hour.

[@lokix19azxc13]

They need to increase productions of goods to the world at affordable price, but at this point of time, this is the Chinese home turf. To do this, they will need to decrease input cost from raw mats, increase production efficiency, reduce shipping cost to ship around the world, and good bilateral relationship with the countries to buy your stuff. Doing one of the task is hard already but doing all of them within Trump presidency is one he'll of a hurdles to cross.

[@rais1953]

​@@pctrashtalk2069 That's just Musk vapourware until you actually see it.

[@audibledarkness]

Happy Kwanzaa & Happy New Year Sean. Thanks for all of your prized news efforts.

[@letsgetreal-df7pu]

Your right Sean the US is a Mountain of contradictions!

[@emphiric]

Japan always wanted the best of both worlds but refuse to accept the reason that it is totally impossible. As long as China and US cannot settle their differences it will never happens.

[@duanerice-mason2115]

RECENTLY JAPAN SOLD $62 BILLION IN US BONDS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME CHINA SYNDICATED A US DOLLAR DENOMINATED LOAN IN SAUDI ARABIA. I WONDERED ARE THEY ALL TRYING TO SEND A MESSAGE? AFTER LISTENING TO U IAM SURE THEY ARE👍

[@swojnowski453]

what message do you mean. The dollar is like a leaky boat, drowning, who wants to drown with it? No message, just self-preservation at all cost.

[@bobsmith3983]

@@swojnowski453 Basically China selling $US bonds is competing with the US treasury. If the US treasury cannot sell bonds it cannot finance the US government spending so government workers including the military don't get paid and everything falls apart.

[@NotMarkKnopfler]

American hegemony is coming to an end. We live in interesting times.

[@phils4634]

America cannot afford to lose hegemony. The consequences (social and financial) are almost unimaginable - many orders of magnitude worse than Weimar Germany. The concern MUST be "will they use all means available" to maintain dominance? Note that the RAND Corporation have clearly suggested that a "limited nuclear war" would be a "winnable option" for the US.

[@krejados1]

Well, it's about danged time Japan makes the switch!

[@widodoakrom3938]

Good job sean foo

[@dinnerwaltz]

China's unilateral visa-free waiver to Japan allows Japanese people to go to China whenever they want, but Chinese people going to Japan have to be scrutinized by Japan first. Lol What a joke.

[@eliso5973]

It's very unlikely that Japanese will go to China but refuse to leave, but Japan has more concern about Chinese going to Japan and becoming illegal immigrants.

[@tramp2827]

Not really. A Caymanian can move to the UK and work, with no problem. A Brit coming to Cayman to work needs a work permit. The reasoning behind China/Japan is that no Japanese will run off to China, Chinese fleeing their totalitarian government will flee to Japan.

[@tramp2827]

@@eliso5973 You would think with a little thinking they could figure this out.

[@bldomain]

@@eliso5973 Japan is not attractive place for the Chinese because of hated from WW2 and China is getting rich now. Sayonara Nippon.

[@MetaView7]

You have got it the other way around. Japan is extending VISA-free to Chinese tourists from 15 days to 30 days.

[@mynameis-John-]

Hi, Why are we are living under this constant threat, from within. We go from one crisis to another.

[@John-zz5gt]

Merry Christmas

[@rexcowan9209]

With American debt at around 35 trillions, there is no reason for the dollar to gain value.

[@urosuros100]

So, in the end the US has killed Shinzo Abe for nothing. :/

[@calicocat8213]

Shinzo Abe wasn't killed by the United States, to whom he was - as the leader of the ruling, US-installed, LDP - both friendly and obedient. One might say he was, ironically, killed by his own grandfather Nobusuke Kishi (an actual war criminal and post-WW2 Prime Minister).

[@urosuros100]

@@calicocat8213 I heard from one of his long standing economic advisors that he was killed for planning rapprochement with Russia na China in the energy security sphere...He was planning some negotiation on the future of Japan's energy security (Jamal etc.). Executions are never directly connected to the contractor. There is always some criminal intermediary.

[@calicocat8213]

@urosuros100 Nah, nothing even remotely close - in fact Old Shinzo was messing up the Article 9 of the Constitution (which forbids Japan from participation in military conflicts except self-defense) and had partly succeeded. I'm in Japan, the crook ("but a likeable crook" as he was known) was gunned down by a private person using a homemade device. The crook's grandfather, (also) a former PM and an actual war criminal, had brought a certain rabidly anti-communist, anti-socialist, anti-leftist religious cult from South Korea to Japan, on orders from a certain Alphabet Agency. Said cult had ruined thousands of lives and families, among them the assassin's.

[@hkt48man57]

Japan Would Get A Huge Economic Boost (And A Nice Increase In Reputation Status) If They Joined BRICS+ Or At Least Became A BRICS+ Partner Member (Similar To Vietnam).

[@irritatedanglosaxon1705]

Well, just saw how new Japan PM acted in recent G20. His deaire only to meet Xi, and thats the only course. After granted, he just direcrly went home and said F U G20

[@mike4evolution]

Thank you Sean. 🌹

[@HTeo-og1lg]

In geopolitics, there is no BBF, only individual country's interests forever. And Uncle Sam is only an uncle if there is mutual satisfying of one's interests. To think otherwise, is just self-delusion.

[@criztaliz3413]

Arigato Seansei😅😅

[@widodoakrom3938]

Lol

[@Simpledot00]

lol like in the Quantum Leap, a cute Chinese woman can pose as Japanese woman. 🤪

[@aliceyingshan2725]

Tourism diplomacy is a thing.

[@Paul-dorsetuk]

Countries settling deals in local currencies not USD risk being invaded.

[@distinctga5811]

Steel manufacturing is typically considered a national strategic resource. It's not uncommon for such industries to be protected.

[@livefree1030]

US has 57,000 woman and children included in Northern Syria that are Prisoners.

[@gerhard-jx4rn]

The dollar is finished my friend

[@rozaliamajores4798]

I thought Japan completely lost its mind siding with the USA, even when a few months ago US let them down, not helping and forbidding them to even attempt to do anything that may cost the US! Never heard China or Russia say to any sovereign country that I wouldn't let this or that happen! EU depended on US after it blew up their reliable cheap energy, selling EU at 5 times the cost! In October US informed EU, that they can't guarantee reliable gas supply albeit 20 times the higher cost!

[@daveh5947]

. Wall St lost $Billions in China when the Investors weren't bailed out.. Country Garden, Sunak, etc. Now China has 1000's and 1000's and 1000's of empty Houses, Apartments for 1cent on the Dollar. Same in Malaysia when the same Companies went into Liquidation. The World doesn't need American Cars, Levi's, Wranglers etc... the World has plenty of places to buy what they need. .

[@Elementaldomain]

In most cases the CPC stepped in and finished the construction, then helped the future residents that were swindled…..to be able to move in. Win-win for the Chinese economy. Then the government also rescinded inheritance taxes….so now the RE investment population does not have to pay any taxes to buy, and keeps Chinese money inside China. ❤

[@TheRobynbrown]

There's no ghost cities in china any more - they were ahead of the curve !

[@Elementaldomain]

@ I think it’s hard for people in the West to wrap their head around the idea that there are governments whose entire focus is to prepare for the future comfort of their population. not only plan, but bring that idea into physical manifestation before it is needed. They do that with everything 🇨🇳💕🪭🐼

[@gfong3387]

They were never ghost cities. City takes 20-30 years to fully complete construction from Scratch. China has to built another 300 million housing units to bring all its remote villages into modern living standards.

[@desiebawden61]

Merry Christmas 🌎🎄🌸

[@ttemp2631]

what chinese export to usa concerns: 75% of the money are made by American and only 25% for China. when china loose the 25%, us loose 75%

[@katarinadicamella]

I hope this channel gets more views!!❤👍🏻

[@fongcheongyat1446]

What is the orange guy ranting about. If you buy more and sell less you have a deficit. All you need to do is to sell more and buy less; which I think you are incapable of doing.

[@psychosarenuts]

I don't wish American people to be hurt economically, but I want to see all countries having a chance. The rules don't work for all.

[@kennie0325]

Nowadays there are no benefits of being an US ally.. only trouble and lots of trouble

[@donaldleejc]

Thanks for this Sean, enjoy the festive season, Xmas and happy new year 🙏🏼

[@MuckyMucky-z3c]

After over 70 years, Japan needs to move away from colonization. Japan needs to become independent.

[@alexxgalaxy]

Weird. Tried to comment three times what happened when Japan tried to do that in the past and the comment was shield from reading...

[@intanpermata5115]

If you say facts that put ''global north'' in the bad light. They will delete your comments. Welcome to freedom! Lol You're free to type, they are free to silent you.

[@swissbiggy]

Merry Cristmas Sean Foo.

[@cougar1861]

BRICS exists precisely to allow its member countries run their economies without US threats, intimidation and manipulation. So who, exactly, among BRICS countries has any need/desire to give a flying flack about US tariffs? The US is so dependent on imported manufactured goods, as shown, that tariffs will not only brutally tax US consumers but also create actual shortages.

[@fongwong1167]

Thank you

[@PBRStreetgang911]

"I would help them make the steel good again" ROFLMAO 🤣😆🤣

[@styx1272]

The world economic system is crumbling due to automated manufacturing which AI will accelerate . Who sells, who buys, who works ? How does the money find an exchange value ?

[@GabeT-eo3pm]

Japan waking up from slumber.

[@garthpetersen3538]

It's probably to late already.

[@bobsmith3983]

Japan is realizing that to the USA friends are a disposable commodity to be used as required.

[@sunnyj7257]

Merry Christmas, Sean!

[@TrevorMoolman-lg1vb]

Great news Great topic

[@flamencoguy3000]

Japanese prime ministers always bow low to American presidents, have you noticed?

[@johnosullivan2197]

Shinzo Abe was killed in suspicious circumstances

[@randybest9187]

The years and decades to come? Do we even have that long?

[@waynethorpe1341]

With only Four years to have an Effect, a Protectionist policy will not work.

[@ZhangYuan-o8g]

All that happened is Japan warned China to stay out of its territory

[@philjoyce7939]

I would like to know what is going to happen to the £GB and the €Euro, as the $US sinks.

[@williamloh8631]

2025 will be the year of reckoning for the US... Period. 😊

[@tresphore3185]

Great analysis as usual, hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your family.

[@TheSpigottedYahtzee]

BRICS+ be looking awfully appealing to Japan right about now...

[@barryshaw5660]

Tariffs aren’t gonna work, Sean that’s just gonna cost the American taxpayers more for anything they buy. Other countries are innovating and they have cheaper labor but on the good side those countries are getting more people into the middle income level. That’s not especially good for me here living in the USA.

[@garytan9904]

the ruling elites always think the rest of the world are dumb enough to forever use the USD

[@gj8550]

Japan’s economy is in crisis. The auto industry is about to collapse. Sales in China is spiralling down. Trump’s imminent tariffs would all but put the final nail in Japan’s auto industry. The yen is experiencing a free fall. BoJ has little option but to sell its US bonds and buy yen to stop the bleeding. Japan needs to import energy and food that are sold in USD, so it must explore all options to conserve its USD. Trading with China with local currencies would be a lifeline.

[@pabitrakunal433]

Asia together ❤