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To: ggersh who wrote (204112)	1/25/2024 8:22:49 PM
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I am guessing Jack shall not be successful in mission zerohedge.com Sullivan Dispatched To Politely Ask China To Pressure Iran On Halting Houthi Attacks The Biden administration, despite trying to flex US military muscle in the Middle East as an imperium in decline, is asking China to do its bidding when it comes to solving the Red Sea crisis. US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will soon meet with China's foreign minister Wang Yi in Thailand to discuss halting Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. It should be recalled that the Houthis declared they would give safe passage to all Chinese and Russian vessels in the Red Sea. "As for all other countries, including Russia and China, their shipping in the region is not threatened," a Houthi statement declared earlier this month. [url=]AFP/Getty Images[/url] The US has long accused Tehran of supplying the Shia Yemeni rebel movement - an accusation that goes all the way back to 2015 and the start of the Yemeni civil war and subsequent years-long Saudi-led bombing campaign. The Biden administration wants Beijing's mediation toward getting Tehran to halt the weapons flows, given its friendly and closer ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby earlier this week (Tues.) said: "China has influence over Tehran; they have influence in Iran. And they have the ability to have conversations with Iranian leaders that—that we can’t." He continued: "And so, what we’ve said repeatedly is: We would welcome a constructive role by China, using the influence and the access that we know they have, to try to help stem the flow of weapons and munitions to the Houthis." So far, China has merely issued blanket appeals for all sides to exercise restraint: "China calls for a stop of causing disturbance to civilian ships, and urges relevant parties to avoid adding fuel to the fire in the Red Sea and jointly safeguard the safety of the Red Sea shipping route in accordance with the law," a statement said. [url=][/url] The foreign ministry stressed that there's been no UN authorization for use of force against Yemen, in a swipe at US-UK coalition attacks on the Houthis, which have come in some eight missile and airstrike waves so far. China and Russia have been foremost among Washington's powerful rivals to criticize Israel's mass bombing of the Gaza Strip. They both have close ties with Iran, as well as with Assad's Syria, and China is busy inking multi-billion dollar infrastructure and energy deals with Iraq. Of course, these 'defiant' countries are under US sanctions as well. Lambert Strether at Naked Capitalism pointed to the obvious absurdity and dilemma when it comes to asking for Chinese help: "Before we go to war with them, or after?" Meanwhile... Raytheon CEO Explains Why China Has US Military By The Balls https://t.co/ZhosLrVZAE — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 21, 2023

To: ggersh who wrote (204112)	1/25/2024 8:25:46 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217734

Re Raytheon CEO Explains Why China Has US Military By The Balls https://t.co/ZhosLrVZAE — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 21, 2023 zerohedge.com Raytheon CEO Explains Why China Has US Military By The Balls Raytheon Chief Executive Greg Hayes admitted last week that Beijing effectively has the US military's supply chain by the balls thanks to its reliance on rare earths and other materials which come from, or are processed in, China. [url=][/url] According to Hayes, Raytheon has "several thousand suppliers in China," because of which "decoupling ... is impossible." "We can de-risk but not decouple," he told the Financial Times, adding that he thinks this is the case "for everybody." "Think about the $500bn of trade that goes from China to the US every year. More than 95 per cent of rare earth materials or metals come from, or are processed in, China. There is no alternative," Hayes continued, adding "If we had to pull out of China, it would take us many many years to re-establish that capability either domestically or in other friendly countries." Hayes’ comments underline the difficulties facing western manufacturers amid growing friction between China and the US and its allies. Beijing in February imposed new sanctions on both Raytheon and US defence peer Lockheed Martin for supplying weapons to Taiwan. Hayes has also been placed under sanctions. The sanctions have had little commercial impact as the groups are not allowed to sell military equipment to China. Raytheon, however, has a substantial commercial aerospace business in the country through its engine subsidiary, Pratt & Whitney, and aviation systems and cabin equipment specialist Collins Aerospace. It has about 2,000 direct employees in China. -FT Hayes said that the company is looking "to take some of the most critical components and have second sources but we are not in a position to pull out of China the way we did out of Russia." That said, entrepreneur Arnaud Bertrand makes a solid point - that this makes war with China "less likely." Except that they have all the leverage and we have have Joe Biden.

To: ggersh who wrote (204112)	1/25/2024 8:28:52 PM
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Navarro needs the Trump to win zerohedge.com Trump Trade Advisor Navarro Sentenced To Four Months For Ignoring J6 Subpoena Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced to four months in jail on Friday for ignoring a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. [url=][/url] The DOJ had sought six months in jail and a $200,000 fine. As we noted last week, Navarro was arrested at a DC airport in June of 2022 on two misdemeanor contempt of Congress charges for doing exactly what Obama AG Eric Holder did (with zero consequences), and more recently, Hunter Biden - ignore a Congressional subpoena when he told the Jan. 6 committee to pound sand. "The Defendant chose allegiance to former President Donald Trump over the rule of law," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Aloi in a 20-page sentencing memo submitted last Thursday night, Politico reported at the time. Navarro was held in contempt in April of 2022 after he refused to provide documents and testimony to the Jan. 6 committee. A grand jury agreed with prosecutors that Navarro knew Trump hadn't asserted executive privilege to bar him from testifying, and that even if Trump had - it wouldn't have barred Navarro from testifying about certain non-covered subjects demanded by the Committee. "At no time did the Defendant provide the Committee with any evidence supporting his assertion that the former President had invoked executive privilege over the information the Committee’s subpoena sought from the Defendant, or otherwise challenge the Committee’s authority or composition," wrote Aloi. "The Court was left with only the Defendant’s fan fiction version of what the Defendant wished or hoped the former President might have wanted but left unsaid."