Joe Biden said the western alliance would target any country that violated the sanctions against Russia. Specifically, after a lengthy telephone call with Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping on March 18th: “President Biden made clear the implication and consequences of China providing material support, if China were to provide material support to Russia, as it prosecutes brutal war in Ukraine,” the senior administration official said, “not just for China’s relationship with the United States, but for the wider world.” (link)
Today, ten days later, China just called Joe Biden’s bluff.
China announces they will violate the western sanctions and continue to purchase crude oil and gas from Russia.
HONG KONG — Chinese state energy company Sinopec will continue to buy crude oil and gas from Russia, a top executive said on Monday, even as Western democracies step up sanctions in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
The company, known formally as China Petroleum and Chemical, is involved in two major projects in Russia: an oil and gas production joint venture called Taihu in the Volga-Ural petroleum basin in western Russia with state-owned peer Rosneft, and the development of the Amur gas chemical complex and processing plant with Sibur in the Russian Far East, adjoining China.
Sinopec holds a 10% stake in privately owned Sibur.
During his company’s annual results call on Monday, Sinopec President Yu Baocai noted that it bought both crude and gas from Russia last year.
“We will also continue to do so in accordance to commercial principles and international trade regulations in the future with all trading partners in order to develop normal oil and gas trading cooperation,” he said.
Yu provided no figures, but said the buying is in line with the company’s strategy of “diversifying import sources.” Key considerations, he said, include supply types, price, transport costs, tariffs and supply stability.
Referring to Sinopec’s projects in Russia, Yu said that both are “operating stably in general for the time being, and there are no indications of impairment.” (read more)
As far as geopolitical chess is concerned, Chairman Xi just put Joe Biden in ‘check.’
There is no way Joe Biden is going to challenge or confront Xi Jinping directly. However, the intent of the western alliance to change the landscape of economics, trade and finance for the rest of the world is now directly being tested. We can also look at this like China testing NATO.
Your move Joe….
China provided much of the power grid computing infrastructure. There were rumors of backdoors into these systems. Joe ought to be thinking about what’s going to happen when China decides to open those doors and pull our collective plug
All, I’ve known for many years what was coming but did not realize what these Bastards in our government were up to.
They are stripping the Federal Reserve of the money supply and try to place it in the hands of the Treasury (Janet Yellen).
We are done. They will control every aspect of your lives. These past years have all been deliberate as most know but they are moving at such speed it’s mind boggling.
Sundance Please help me explain what is happening for those who might have difficulty understanding what is taking place.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/taxes/ecash-bidens-attack-on-the-financial-markets/
Simple answer : Treason !
Destruction of the Nation FROM WITHIN !
Of course, that is what this is, but we’ve lost the FIB, the military, the bureaucrats, and most politicians who so eagerly sell their souls. All that is left now is….US, We The People. Will the people stop this madness? Time will tell.
Why was Janet Yellen installed into the Treasury? Why is The BlackRock and Vanguard funds who manage nearly 50% of our National debt buying up homes? Why will you own nothing and be happy?
well, if you can’t invest long term, and the unrealized gains on your property is taxed at 20% than wants the point of owning anything if every year you’re taxed 20% on something you haven’t even sold.
Everyone will be happy to relieve themselves of that 20% tax YOY. Owning nothing and being happy cause you know… wealth is evil.
Not only that but if your unrealized gains go down, you can only write off $3,000 a year. Prison is too good for Congress.
In rhe tax code, something that benefits the taxpayer, is exressed as a dollar amount, knowing that it will be useless, crippled by inflation, over time. But when they want a benefit to them (the govt), it’s expressed as a %, so they always get their cut, hedged for a depreciating dollar.
YOU will own nothing and be happy.
THEY will own EVERYTHING and you will pay them RENT, down to your CLOTHES, and they will be REALLY wealthy and REALLY happy.
I’m not kidding, they even want you to rent your clothes.
You will own NOTHING.
here in the flyover country we will barter and burn wood .Lets see the bankers eat that money .
Never give up Vote! The Lord is with us and I pray will help us climb out of this hole the left has dug for us, even though it is very deep.
Westerners read China the wrong way. They project their own nefarious practices onto the Chinese. This is primarily due to our overall shift away from Christian principle and ethics from the indoctrination by the Marxist media. We’ve lost sight of real diplomacy and a value of a good old handshake and keeping one’s word. China’s strength is their desire to trade with other nation while not interfering with their partner’s internal affairs (“the prime directive”). On the other hand the West (ruled by Marxist-Globalists) insist on meddling and disrupting the internal affairs of the rest of the world. We are at a point in history where the rest of the world can push back against this kind of behavior and bullying from the Marxist-Globalist Occupied Western nations.
Birds of a feather flock together. Now who else is with Xi on this?
Any country that wants to. THEY KNOW we are dealing with a complete idiot and an admin, armed forces that are so woke we wouldn’t survive any attack. WE LOST Afghanistan….LOST, dropped, rolled and burned up. LEFT military equip, allowed OUR citizens, armed forces to be murdered and MADE NO IMPACT WHATSOEVER.
And we WON’T in ANY WAR in the future either.
Milley??? GOOD LORD, we are dependent upon HIM to WIN?????
All of what Biden has done is intentional! Don’t be blindsided by his incompetence. He is taking instructions from within and this is exactly what they want. Did you not hear his speech that we would be leading the New World Order? They will bring America to its knees in every aspect to bring in the Great Reset!
Biden and Harris. Blinken and Sullivan. Austin and Milley.
What’s to worry?
True that, all of it. Just how much more abuse do you think the people are going to take?
not f ing much before leaders start to get killed .
most of Asia, most of the ME, most of South America, and most of Africa.
which is to say, most of humanity.
Our list of allies is shrinking fast. But no mean tweets.
Even the EU may turn against the US in the very near future. Joebama refuses to let us become energy independent, therefore unable to sell to the EU, while Russia is now informing the EU they must pay in rubles for their Russian gas and oil.
Looks like India, Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia, and just about the rest of the non-Western world.
WONDERFUL question, mike.
For sure and for starters: Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa. These four countries and China are in an economic alliance. It’s called BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.
Seems to me that this alliance factors in greatly with what is going on in Ukraine. While the US levies sanctions against Russia and hurts us, the American people, these countries are probably trading more actively than we realize. Just since the invasion we’ve seen PM Modi of India and Xi of China openly negotiating with Russia.
Thinking back on it I remember Trump going out of his way to develop good working relationships with Bolsonaro, Putin, Modi, and Xi.
None of this stuff exists in a vacuum.
More & more obvious, each day. China, Russia, N Korea, Iran, Iraq give one whit what the USA/BIden is doing.
WE, USA piling mega $$$ into Ukraine; they have not placed one $$ there and won’t. THey will wait until the end and reap the benefits and the $$$.
WE ARE SO STUPID.
Biden has no impact whatsoever on the world other than to send $$$ that are then kicked back to him, family, Congress….
I keep wondering how much of our policy is to deliberately crash the system and how much is just pure stupidity.
Then I have to ask: does it really make any difference to the outcome?
Putting people this consistently and powerfully stupid in place pretty much is a willful system crashing act.
Just wind up the JoeBots and off the cliff we go.
That clarifies the cause and effect pretty well.
I’m betting 85% planned and 15% stupid.
One would think Brandon could not F-UP anything more than his Afghanistan blunder. But instead he says hold my beer. He is fast approaching getting USA into a no win situation with no way out. Choice of nuclear war or nuke the dollar. He should be relegated back to his basement full time. The very sad part is that if he goes then its Harris, next in line after Harris is Pelosi. There is no way that happened by coincidence.
Pelosi is “next in line” only if the President and VP are incapacitated at the same time. If Joe goes first, the VP gets to pick a VP. If the VP goes first, the President picks a VP.
So it’s best if they both go at the same time.
I’m not so sure, since that would give us Nancy and she’s 98% witch and 100% corrupt.
“……….best if they both go at the same time.” Then the Speaker of The House (Trump?) would be next in line?…???
Never underestimate Joe’s ability to F things up!
Never forget that’s why Zero put him in the Oval.
Countries such as China and Russia couldn’t ask for a more perfect United States from their view.
China put a lot of time, money, and effort into creating this particular administration and Congress.
I don’t think there will be WWIII. NATO is just bluster. They have no intention of fighting Russia, nor should they. If anyone is looking to create the old Soviet Empire, it seems to be us. In our own country. What’s ridiculous is that we are not opposing aiding and abetting Ukraine. Our poor country, reeking of corruption and totalitarianism. And to top it off, Sean Penn starts threatening to smolt his Oscars if Zelensky, the Nazi mascot of the year, is not invited to speak. I am waiting to see the video of Sean’s gold rubble. And he’s taking up much needed space hanging out in Poland. Someone else can use a bed.
Putin does not treat his leadership and country like its a reality TV show. Maybe Russia is stoic, but at least they have tradition. Like him or not, Putin is going to take care of his own. He doesn’t need to explain what he’s doing. The damn reporters/journalists just make up crap out cold cheerios every single day. What does it bother him that we’re morons? I don’t think Putin revels in this. Its just crazy sad. Pathetic. And oh yeah, go Team Russia.
Sean Penn should be smelted on live TV. He’s a punk that needs his teeth rearranged.
Predictable but a very big move indeed. Sundance, thank you for all the excellent analysis provided on the geopolitical and domestic issues. Complex subjects are hard to grasp at times and you solidify and focus on the important aspects for readers,
This China news comes on the heels of India’s –
https://www.independentsentinel.com/india-will-drop-the-dollar-to-trade-with-russia-replacing-swift/
Here is an interesting take I feel Americans are still sleeping about –https://rightwirereport.com/2022/03/28/are-we-becoming-the-new-soviets/
So Chyna’s now completed the financial infrastructure for How-to-Buy from Russia
• De-Dollarized
• Non-SWIFT
And Chyna’s already got the financial infrastructure for How-to-Buy from ChYna.
• Same deal
Now ChYna becomes Russia’s EXPORT MIDDLE-MAN to end-run ALL SANCTIONS.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Problem
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asia-stream/id1599757014?i=1000555180302
What happened to Khan? He positioned himself as a middleman in Asia, dealing with Putin and Xi. It seems he has touched a third rail…
Biden’s handlers are just going to tell him to say buying oil and gas doesn’t constitute “material support”, although they deeply deplore the situation, it’s just this side of the red line, blahblahblah so nothing we can really do about it…
The sick part is, I think you are completely correct, and their media allies will back them up.
Maybe Blinken will meet and negotiate with China? No, wait. China slapped soy boy around at the Alaska meeting. He has no credibility.
Maybe the security guy, Sullivan will meet and negotiate with China? NO wait. this soy boy also got slapped around by China at the Alaska meeting. He also has no credibility
However, I’m sure these two lightweights DO have credibility……with CNN.
A new mantra has been created. “China has diplomats. We have doormats.”
John Kerry? (He can play the guitar and bring a singer)?
Now Joe Depends has to decide if we BOYCOTT CHINA or not !!!!! LOL this is gonna be fun to watch as the pressure builds on those morons in the White House.
Especially after this move:
https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/us-lifts-trumpera-tariffs-352-chinese-products
Why on earth do you think it would be fun? Do you really think that China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, really give a whit if the USA even exists as a country? Do you think they wouldn’t take our land in a second once they can? Do you think they’ll have mercy on the people of the United States, because most of us hate our own leadership as much as they do? Do you really think that having powers with such resources, militaries, and strategic savvy gathering against us is a *good* thing for the people of the United Stares?
People really need to wake up. We’re being squeezed. Elites of the West have entirely sold us out. But that doesn’t change the fact that many powers on this earth can and will obliterate us.
For one thing when things get real bad these DC scumbags will swing from ropes . Soon real soon !
Watching the demise of our Republic does not strike me as being something fun to do. Quite the opposite, actually.
Minor economic incursion?
Joey BagofBS has messy pants today.
Sundance, this is “check.” “Checkmate” will take the form of the Saudis selling crude to the ChiComs in petroyuan.
This is Biden Chess™ we’re talking about here… in Biden Chess™ you’re allowed to move your own King into check… and the Queen can only move sideways… all bets are off in Biden Chess™, my friend…
I’m sure from Putin and Xi’s perspective, dealing with Biden* is much the same as dealing with Obama. Putin said it was like playing chess with a pigeon. Knock over the pieces, poop on the board, and strut around like you did something important.
Did Putin really say that about Obama? That is the most perfect description of him ever!
“You cut own throat, we good here.”
-Happy Panda
Joey never learned how to run with the big dog’s…
If the Big Guy can get his 10% cut, I am sure he will be ok with XI getting energy from Russia. Putin and XI must be laughing their asses off whenever that senile old man gives a speech.
Why wouldn’t they, everyone else does including my barber.
Yup.
Broken Arrow territory.
Nobody voted for this insanity. What’s the endgame? 130 million registered voters. Trump got 71 million, the most ever, and Biden got 81 million votes? The numbers don’t lie, just the people that read them.
Figures don’t lie but liars figure.
Why wouldn’t China? Many NATO member countries are continuing with their Russian oil purchases.
https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-oil-idAFL5N2VO3PE
Any doubt in any treepers mind, that Joe will fold?
Whats he gonna do, give back all the $ he got from Xi, via Hunter?
More importantly, is Mitch gonna have his in-laws pay back the $ Xi ‘loaned’ them, to start a $billion shipping business?
Joe just eliminated the sanctions PDJT put on China, he won’t do squat.
The US and ASEAN nations summit has also been postponed “indefinitely”.
The link below shows ASEAN membership as well as overlaps with other Asian-Pacific groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations
Then there are the relationships between China Inc. all those Island Federations across the Pacific.
One of the few sites that actually call Winnie Chairman. Refreshing and true. Quit calling him president.
The JoeBama Administration has a major US based hurdle to those sanctions besides the other Asian-Pacific Nations…..the “Special” Hong Kong intersection of China Inc. and Major US Financial Institutions.
NATO countries are still buying Russian gas …
Yep, it was publicized by the EU this past weekend that it will take YEARS to break the relations with Russia and replace the lost fuel with stuff from the US.
NATO is ridiculous. Of course they are. Why the US is asking Europe to cut its nose to spite its face is beyond me. Just completely nonsensical.
When you are a leader (ha ha ha, I know) of a nation, you are supposed to think strategically, not stand at a podium in your guerilla war tee shirt (still fresh after a month long deluge of missile strikes and assassination attempts) with a tear in your eye, and tell the world to,” Give us all your money and weapons! If not, we will be forced to use our biochemical weapons that we’ve been…Oops, I mean, we will be forced to hide under old women and chil…Oops, I mean,…we will have to bomb our own homes before the Russi…Oops, I mean…”
I believe Russian Natural Gas is not part of “Stopping Russian Oil”. It also appears the Russian oil imports to the USA is still coming due to Corporate contracts that ordered for future dates. The USA doesn’t purchase oil from Russian companies. Corporations buy and sell to corporations with international contracts. In many cases, they have ‘go around’ clauses that translate to :FJB.
We are screwed if he buys with Rubles.
Little Potato going to threaten the Giant Panda ? ! Panda is ferocious when in that situation !
Bye the way, waiting for Jack Maxey to drop contents of Hunter laptop. He’s posting on gettr.
450 gb were uncovered in an additional forensic audit in Zurich this week.
Sundance will have a field day when the contents is released. This will be epic.
Prayers up for Maxey and team.
I just wonder what will happen. Nothing? As usual?
“Your move Joe….”
And now it’s time for everybody to hold their breath.
I’m not going to hold my breath over the likes of that poor stick. He can hold his breath.
Consider what kind of movement Joe is about to have . . .
😉
😂
Room Clearing Event.
Weapon of Mass Diffusion.
…and when we’re done holding our breath..” Then call me, and ask for “Mr.Blue”.
When your entire infrastructure is reliant on your enemy for parts and electronics, you must be progressive, red necks are way smarter than that.
Joe Biden is checkers.
The real President Donald J. Trump would be chess.Russia and China are chess.
I wonder if the Hunter Biden indictment is waiting for his dads complete failure so DC morons can package Kamala as better than the man with 87,000,000 votes. And that she wouldn’t have done the same things as Joe. And we should be happy to have the first Jamaican Indian Female dimwit President.
Dont worry be happy.
It is all part of the exposure plan. The more people see the more they realize these screwballs have us screwed.
Teddy Roosevelt: Walk softly, but carry a big stick.”
The current occupant of the White House: “Walk away from reporters and carry extra Depends.”
Again I ask, “How do you say, “We are so screwed,” in Russian?
I say Russian because it seems to me that China and Russia are business associate not allies.
More and more we see why they went absolutely insane trying to get rid of Trump. Now that his finger was pulled from the dyke the world is imploding, soon to be literally exploding.
And in retrospect we see even more why they manufactured the Covid scam and timed it for the election.
Totally orchestrated and part of the scheme.
Stop blaming Biden as he is nothing more than an empty suit. The reality is that the central bank mafia has been out to destroy the USA since it’s founding. They can not have citizens walking around believing their freedom is given by God as this was always reserved for kings. It’s taken 200 years and we are now back in 1776 but with deep state thugs to do the elites’ bidding. The only way to end their evil is destroy them and now before it is too late.
It is very hard to analyze what is going on and depends on one’s view of the current political situation:
1) Is everything to be taken at face value? Though the election was clearly stolen, are we to analyze the Biden administration’s actions as traditional statecraft, failing only because of their utter lack of diplomacy skills? Or –
2) Are they doing it on purpose – i.e., are we just watching the Deep State/elites/
oligarchs/Globalists/Cabal/Khazarian Mafia – choose your term – purposely stealing the election, and then proceeding on an accelerated schedule to completely destroy the United States in a Hegelian dialectic strategy presumably resulting in the sheep clamoring for the imposition of a World Government just to have some security? (A pretty big assumption IMO) Or –
3) Are the White Hats working behind the scenes, forcing the Biden administration (and others) to do the craziest, most extreme things imaginable in an effort to FINALLY wake up the snoozing Normies to just how evil these people really are? Or, to take it a big step further, are DJT, BP and Xi working together to, for once and for all, destroy the KM?
I go back and forth between #2 and #3. It’s hard to believe #1 where the entire administration is egregiously, mind-bogglingly inept but otherwise has no world government ambitions.
I pray it’s #3, but the longer it goes and the worse it gets, one has to wonder what the White Hats are waiting for to reveal the evil ones. It’s a real test of faith, and it’s difficult when all we get on that front is assurances by this alt-right truther or that one, that lots of big things are happening behind the scenes. I fervently hope that’s the case.
@Son of Liberty–Totally agree!! Biden is just a puppet. The banking cartel/central bankers have been planning this takeover of humanity for centuries. This is all by design!!!
I think it’s time to send hot lips kamala to pay a call on chairman xi ping pong to kinda grease the skids for the big guy !!
Everyone keeps talking about what Joe Biden has done. Get real, Biden only sits around soiling his underwear. Let’s talk instead about the America haters who are actually running things. How about Barrack Obama and Valerie Jarrett?
Xi knows that No-Cajones Joe will back down, back off and the people who are pulling No-Cajones Joe aren’t as smart as he is!
Sure do miss Titan Trump!
Will Biden write Xi a letter telling him that China is a bad boy and has greatly disappointed the US and that he hopes China were reconsider her decision? He will then announce to the US and world that he had severely admonished China. He has proved who is leader of the free world. Done and dusted.
OK Joe, just take your ball and go home. We have our own balls anyway.
China & Russia are not concerned what the US will or will not do especially under Biden’s shakey hands and mental state !
Certainly neither country wants a direct confrontation with the US however Russia & China have to know we (US) as an industrial power are weak !
Steel mills , Foundries , Machine shops and shipyards are closed or hanging by a thread .
Assembly and manufacturing plants cannot run without parts arriving daily from China .
We old steelmen tried to warn all you government and investor class fools what would happen !
Ron Paul tried to tell you now here we are food and other goods dwindling , petroleum products low and priced out of reach and you idiots in government tell us to walk more and eat bugs !
How about you all take heavy cuts in pay and benefits walk more and eat shit !
Of course they will … and there is zero reason for any of their trades to involve the United States Dollar.
A valid reason for this never existed.
No reason for China to dance to the West’s tune. They hold all the economic cards.
It seems there was a larger plan than just making Biden stateholder in Ukraine in 2014 allowing him to drop family and friends at lucrative posts in his new fairy land. Probably a russian regime change was already being schemed with a war to push it through.
That would also explain the eagerness with which they tried to remove Trump who suddenly appeared out of nowhere in ’16 and especially Flynn who maybe had a complete russia policy change in the works. A friendly and cooperating Russia must have been perceived as a nightmare and devastating for the regime change plans.
When Trump started talking to Zelensky they almost panicked and attempted the impeachment.
Now that Biden is back the original plan continues. Remember if the Trump intermezzo is neglected the coup in Ukraine is only 3 years old.
However if the chinese helped removing Trump with the virus there is a chance that they are in on the regime change too.
That would point to a grand scheme of a mutual agreement between US and China and also show the weakness of US going after no 3 together with no 2 instead of going after no 2 with no 3.
This is all very obvious and many people realise this now, so probably the plan is called off, but where will that leave US with a shattered petrodollar – in a default?
we’re fortunate that the Chinese are not really ambitious in imperialistic power terms of conquest. They want taiwan, but already have it since the US agrees its part of China. Other than that, China has no territorial ambitions. Their primary goal is economic power.
The Russians, despite all the hysteria, are the same. They want the countries on their borders to be in their sphere of influence, but have no destire to re-conquer the Baltics or march on Berlin again. If we had just agreed to let them be the dominant power in Ukraine, there would’ve been no war.
Guess the US will be supplying weapons to Taiwan now.
You know, the some of the EU have to be thinking that they have royally effed up, and are trying to figure out how get off this crazy carnival ride.
Election Fraud put Joe Biden in the White House.
Joe Biden is an illegitimate President.
The biggest Election Fraud in American history
happened in the 2020 election.
Biden lifted the tariffs the other day, so China knew Biden’s threat was an empty threat.
biden to xi: C’MON MAN
Remember that map Sundance posted last week. Is the world isolating Russia, or is the world isolating the USA and Europe?
Having a moron in the White House and arrogant elitists running the show is proving to be a disaster.
I think the timing by the Chinese was perfect. Just before the Euros have to decide whether to buy Russian oil and gas and pay in Rubles, the Chinese make it clear they will be buying, putting more pressure on the Euros. I think the announcement today was not coincidental.
The Big Guy’s dilemma can be simply phrased::
His diapers are all made in China.
Of course China will keep buying from Russia. Xi knows that fossil fuel runs China’s economy, and he’s not going to crash that economy when he has 1.4 bazillion people to keep busy. Besides, where else is he going to get it from when the US is sucking off the mid-east taps and US has declared Venezuelan oil persona non-grata?