“China’s Push to Expand BRICS Membership Falters”
“India and Brazil are pushing back against a Chinese bid to rapidly expand the BRICS group of emerging markets to grow its political clout and counter the US, officials with knowledge of the matter said.
The countries have raised objections in preparatory talks for a summit in Johannesburg next month where Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will discuss potentially expanding the group to include Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. China has repeatedly lobbied for expansion during those meetings, said the officials, who asked not to be identified as the discussions are private.”
Peak China.
‘The nation is teetering on the brink of deflation, its vast property market is shrinking and business confidence is waning. All that’s happening as the population shrinks and geopolitical tensions with top trade partners sizzle.”
“China’s home market has continued to contract, with the total amount of money lent out to buy homes shrinking from a year earlier for the first time on record.
The outstanding amount of individual mortgages fell to 38.6 trillion yuan ($5.4 trillion) at the end of June, down 260 billion yuan from the same period a year earlier, according to data from the People’s Bank of China released Friday. That’s the first year-on-year drop in the data going back to 2011.”
Kremlin snuffbox
Shoigu starts a real war with his enemies.
Under the threat of Prigozhin and a number of generals, an attempt was made on one of them
After we began to speak honestly about the threats to Russian generals who do not agree with the “general line” of the Ministry of Defense, Telegram channels that receive money from Sergei Shoigu and his people became seriously active.
We have already written about this activation and about the connections of our “critics” with the ministry, but Sergei Kuzhugetovich’s supporters cannot calm down.
In order to wash the name of their boss, they even came up with ... a fake comment by General Mikhail Teplinsky. By the way, you can read it here .
But let’s not pay much attention to propagandists. We learned a lot of important and disturbing things about the conflict that threatens the army.
Let’s talk about the most important.
Based on the results of his visit to the DPRK, which he considers successful, Shoigu reasonably hopes that he will remain in the post of Minister of Defense ( we wrote about this ).
Vladimir Putin does not mind and does not plan to dismiss the minister now.
Against a number of combat generals, which we have repeatedly written about.
Because Shoigu decided to move on to drastic actions.
In the next few weeks, the opponents of Sergei Kuzhugetovich, according to one of his supporters, “won’t do well.”
In the list of people against whom Shoigu is going to repress, in particular, his deputy Yunus-Bek Yevkurov (according to the minister, he spoke too politely to Prigozhin during the “Wagnerites” rebellion), generals Mikhail Teplinskiy, Ivan Popov, Sergey Surovikin (what is happening with Sergei Vladimirovich now is not enough for the Minister of Defense, he wants almost the physical death of Surovikin), as well as Evgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin on this list.
There is also Igor Strelkov, whose arrest became a “touchstone” in the coming repressions.
Criminal cases are being prepared against all the named people, which threaten them with serious terms. At the same time, Shoigu called Teplinsky, Popov, Prigozhin and Utkin in one of his personal conversations “insane” and believes that it is “easier to bang them or put them under Ukrainian artillery” than to try to put them in jail.
No one will swing at Prigozhin now, this death would be too loud, but we would advise the same Utkin to be more careful. And no matter where he is now.
Moreover, already when we wrote this post, we had to supplement it with important information.
One of Ivan Popov’s associates contacted us and stated that an assassination attempt had been made on the general. “Ivan Ivanovich felt bad three days ago.
He was hospitalized, arsenic was found in his body.
The dose was not calculated, thank God, they could not kill him.
Ivan Ivanovich’s enemies will not wait for his death. And they will pay for everything,” our interlocutor said.
He did not directly accuse Shoigu of attempting to assassinate Popov, but he believes that “it could not have done without the minister” in this situation.
We understand that this information requires additional confirmation. We are checking it and will definitely devote a separate post to this topic.
Mikhail Teplinskiy, in turn, gave us advice not to pay attention to the haters and was indignant that the channel mentioned at the beginning of this post came up with his fake comment.
“We will deal with them later,” Mikhail Yurievich promised.
What do we see as a result?
Sergei Shoigu felt almost complete impunity and is going to commit actions that could split not only the army, but the whole of Russia.
There is no point in turning to Sergei Kuzhugetovich, he is now really dizzy from success, sources in the Ministry of Defense say. But the president can stop him.
Vladimir Vladimirovich, we do not need confrontations. Russia may not be able to withstand such conflicts now. Stop it!
Please consider this post as our official appeal to the President.
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