mi attacco qui, non ho tempo di sintetizzare ma consiglio di leggere:
Interest rates in the US add a prosaic but significant element to the scariest development of the moment, in the Taiwan Strait. Following last week’s visit to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, China spent the weekend conducting highly provocative military exercises around Taiwan. The language that China and the US are using to describe each other grows ever less diplomatic. The relationship between the world’s two biggest economies is at its most fraught in decades.Logically, these events should impact markets around the world. At one level, the risk of nuclear war has risen, although as nobody can be sure what the risk was before and after last week’s events, or put a price on the damage a nuclear conflict would create, it’s hard to factor in to a spreadsheet. Beyond that, Taiwan is the single greatest pressure point in US-China relations, which are dictated by what commentators call the Thucydides Trap. From the work of the Greek historian who chronicled the Pelopponesian War between Athens and Sparta, the idea is that when a hegemonic power in decline (Sparta or the US) faces a rising power (Athens or China), conflict is inevitable. Taiwan’s continued self-governance has infuriated China for decades; but is it really prepared to take the actions needed to seize control of the island? The US has grown more outspoken in voicing its defense of Taiwan as China’s power has grown — but how far will it go? Athens and Sparta, caught in the Thucydides Trap, both ended their war far worse off than they’d started. Would China and the US really make the same mistake?Democracies tend not to go to war on each other. A variation on the Thucydides theme is that when autocracies come to control a large share of the global economy, military conflict grows more likely. The rise of China doesn’t leave autocracies with as big a share of global wealth as they had during the Cold War or on the eve of World War II, but their share is increasing to a worrying extent. This illustration comes from Kevin Loane of Fathom Consulting of London:daleg1.pngChina now has more economic wealth — how far is President Xi Jinping prepared to use that wealth for a power struggle? So far, in an echo from the sanctions that have been imposed on Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, China has seemed unprepared to inflict economic pain on others at the cost of economic pain for itself. The military exercises are very provocative but have involved no direct conflict and no cost for China. Meanwhile, the evidence is that Xi is not prepared to go so far. That, at least, would explain why Beijing is sanctioning Taiwanese fruit, rather than electronics. This analysis from Capital Economics of London is interesting:A common feature of its use of trade restrictions as political tools is that China takes care to avoid anythat would damage its own economy. That’s why its stopped buying Australian coal rather than iron ore. In this sense, the foodstuffs that are the latest focus make a perfect target: It’s easy to find alternatives to Taiwanese fruit. It’s also easy to come up with phytosanitary reasons for a ban. And it may help too that farmers are a core constituency of President Tsai’s DPP.The largest share of Taiwan’s exports to China is electronics, with semiconductors the biggestsingle product. But sanctioning them would wreak havoc in Chinese industry. Worse, from Beijing’sperspective, it may not hurt Taiwan’s producers too much right now: Many Taiwanese firms are still working their way through a backlog of orders. There is no shortage of global demand.This chart breaks down China’s imports from Taiwan:
800x-1.pngrelates to How We Get From ‘Great Resignation’ to Rate HikesThe economic dimension is vitally important. Taiwan is an island. Conquering it would be far more expensive, in all ways, for China than invading Ukraine has been for Russia. And Taiwan’s role in the world’s electronics industry means that the global economic impact of any conflict could dwarf the disruptions of the last two years sparked by the pandemic. This in itself is reason to believe that it is not in Xi’s rational interests to press the conflict much further. But then the same arguments were made about Vladimir Putin and Ukraine before the invasion. If China and the US really are caught in a Thucydides Trap, much worse could be in the futureCurrency WarsThursday will see the seventh anniversary of the biggest emerging market shock of recent times, China’s mishandled currency devaluation of Aug. 11, 2015. That led to several months of near-crisis conditions and an ugly selloff for equity markets, which were resolved after the February 2016 G-20 meeting in Shanghai led to what quickly became known as the Shanghai Accord; although never formally announced, the leading economies simultaneously adopted monetary policies that helped to calm foreign exchange markets and weaken the dollar. With China conducting military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, it’s hard to see how any such deal could operate now. That is a problem because money is beginning to flow out of China. Investors already had reason to be nervous from the clampdown on the private sector and the fall in real estate prices. Geopolitics adds to this. Large pension funds will be increasingly leery of having to explain to their members why they’re investing in Xi’s China. Even before the latest Taiwan crisis, international money had exited Chinese debt for six months in a row, according to the Institute of International Finance. This is very much a phenomenon driven by China itself, rather than an issue for the broader emerging markets. It’s not about the inflationary risks in the developed world, but about specific growing concerns about China:daleg2.pngThat said, the inflation dynamics in the west contribute to problems for China and the emerging world by strengthening the dollar. To quote the institute:Most of the recent dynamics in flows can be attributed to the Dollar dynamics. In the first few months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Dollar appreciated substantially against other advanced economies, but remained range-bound against emerging markets. The reason the Dollar failed to rise against EM is that higher commodity prices boosted commodity exporters but weighed on commodity importers. That changed in June as the Fed accelerated its hiking cycle. Emerging markets suffered across the board as tighter global financial conditions weighed on high-beta assets.This shows up very clearly in the performance of emerging market currencies. It hasn’t been uniformly bad, with Latin America in particular at times appearing to offer a haven. But the decline continues, and was hastened by the rates scare that followed the ugly CPI print published in early June. The subsequent decline in US yields hasn’t helped much:Nobody should be in any doubt that the risks over Taiwan are profound, and that the chance of an “accidental” escalation into military conflict has increased. But a surprisingly high CPI number this week, bringing higher rates, a flow of money to the US and a stronger dollar in its wake would also have a profound effect on an increasingly fragile status quo. One tangible effect of the discord to date is to make another “Shanghai Accord” very difficult to reach, even if such a thing might soon be needed.
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Mi pare si parlasse di circa 300 droni (appena trovo il documento lo posto)... E' comunque certo che una delegazione russa abbia visitato una base iraniana dove si producono i Shahed.
Puo' anche essere che ci sia anche in ballo il discorso del nucleare iraniano come "contropartita", puo' essere che Teheran abbia bisogno di ingegneri russi per migliorare il riarmo atomico. Ma sono solo supposizioni mie al momento, non ho ulteriori info in merito
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Lo spostamento di uomini verso Kherson è una chiara risposta alla dichiarata intenzione degli ucraini di riconquistare il sud, sta costringendo i russi a ridurre le risorse dedicate al Donbass e infatti riescono a condurre offensive solo nella zona di Donetsk-Bakhmut, mentre più a nord sono fermi o addirittura in ritirata come attorno a Izyum.
Considerato quanto hanno pubblicizzato l'offensiva meridionale probabilmente gli ucraini volevano ottenere questo effetto, sbilanciare le truppe russe verso i territori più difficili in termini di logistica, lontani dalla Russia e dove le vie di comunicazione possono essere facilmente attaccate.
A Kherson peraltro sembra che gli ucraini siano riusciti a smantellare le difese antiaeree russe, hanno condotto incursioni con più aerei nei territori controllati dai russi che fino a poche settimane fa non sarebbero state possibili, se gli ucraini fossero in grado di garantire il supporto aereo alle loro truppe la situazione dei russi ad ovest del fiume Dniepr potrebbe diventare facilmente insostenibile.
Turchia, potenza regionale a debito (di dollari) | Phastidio.net
spiega l'interesse turco per la situazione
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Ho visto un video da Twitter con dei bagnanti in fuga a seguito di un attacco ad una base in Crimea. Per un momento ho immaginato se fosse accaduto in Italia.
L'Ucraina ha rivendicato l'attacco.
Sinceramente non mi è piaciuto il commento da parte ucraina: «Il futuro della Crimea sarà quello di essere una perla del Mar Nero, un parco nazionale con una natura unica e una località turistica mondiale. Non una base militare per terroristi. Questo è solo l'inizio».
Secondo me non è questione di resistere ma di consumarsi.
Ed è quello che i russi stanno facendo bene
E come diceva kurt cobain: “È meglio bruciare in fretta che spegnersi lentamente”.
Ribadisco che secondo me sta storia dura un paio di anni e siamo già ad un quarto.
Poi però dipende da cosa succede nel resto del mondo.
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Posso capire che non piaccia, ma posso capirli.
Uno Stato straniero che invade un Paese sovrano dopo che da eoni tenta di manipolarne la politica interna e strumentalizzarne ogni malumore per stringerlo sotto il giogo di una dittatura violenta altro non si merita che l'aggettivo di pazzo e terrorista.
Per cui sì, spero che questo sia solo l'inizio.
Lou soulei nais per tuchi
Resistono perchè anche la controparte ucraina si sta dissanguando lentamente. Nonostante le armi occidentali hanno perso e stanno perdendo migliaia di uomini, di mezzi, di armamenti.
E questo conflitto potrebbe durare ancora anni, molti anni, finchè USA/Nato da una parte e Cina/Iran dall'altra continuano a foraggiare di armi e mezzi.
E come quasi tutte le guerre alla fine non ci saranno nè vincitori nè vinti, ma solo sconfitti.
Lou soulei nais per tuchi
Io molto meno. Nel video si vedono persone scappare, e la Crimea è ormai colonizzata da russi con pochi ucraini rimasti (molti dei quali erano pro-russi già prima del 2014), è una situazione ben differente da quella del Donbass.
Vada per attaccare le basi militari visto che da esse partono gli attacchi all'Ucraina, ma l'idea che quel messaggio mi trasmette è che vogliano estendere la guerra anche alla Crimea quando possibile (come se non bastasse già la scia di distruzione fino a questo punto).
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