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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (216651)9/19/2025 4:18:40 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217545
 
GetMoreGold, am told, based on guesswork founded on inferences supported by who knows what if anything, but, yes, fact-checked, allegedly, but who can know until known

Q: Good morning Manus, statement, that when Russia recently signed mutual defence treaty with North Korea, and North Korea already had a mutual defence treaty dating from the '50s with China, Russia and China in a de facto mutual defence treaty. North Korea made good on the treaty by sending troops to Kursk. Fact. Now, in another theatre, Russia backs India, and China backs Pakistan. Fact. Meantime India, Pakistan, Russia and China are in SCO that is still in rapid evolution into some eventual 'final' form. Now, latest (please fact-check) (1) youtu.be VLOG, what is the implication ? Also (2) youtu.be (3) youtu.be (4) youtu.be (5) youtu.be (6) youtu.be , and finally, Martin at it again (7) youtu.be :0) Please update thematic narrative of 2026 TeoTwawKi / 2032 Darkest Interregnum / 2042 Demographic-flip per Asimovian Empire / Foundation lore, and here-to-there tactical portfolio adjustments now-now advisable. Tia


Q: Am wondering (1) how do the respect local media of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan spin the development w/r to mutual defense treaty, and same by Israel and by Iran, (2) what did Pakistan general and the Trump talk about when recently met in the White House, presumably China okay-ed China-armed Pakistan to mutually defend / train with Saudi Arabia? Seems an already complicated situation in Middle East just got more so ? My imagination is heating up, and conclude GetMoreGold, yes, good as opposed to gold mines ?


Q: (1) What is the current state of relationship between Israel and China, and in event of Team Trump doing rug-pull on Netanyahu (is that even possible?) who might take over from Netanyahu and what must he do w/r to China-relationship, all in context of 2026 / 2032 / 2042 change of seasons ? (2) Take into consideration for the future scmp.com (3) scmp.com (4) scmp.com . I attach the SCMP articles as Team China occasionally posts important stuff there, as do the likes USA might in WSJ / NYT, and UK does in Telegraph / Guardian. Update whatever and analysis whatever else, Tia



Q: How likely is it that USA - China 'big deal' involves Boeing and China hi-speed rail ?


Q: Is Trump rumored to ride the hi-speed from Shanghai to Beijing in coming state-visit ?


Q: In the event of Grand-Deal between USA-China, am imaging that Canada, Australia, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, India, UK, EU, and Israel would need to push shove shuffle sashay and quickly to … Beijing, gifts in hand, heads bowed in supplication, stance genuflecting ? In such an event, super boom of USD system, NYC- and HKG- listed shares ? Buy buy buy GetMoreGold ? Just-saying and ‘nuff-said.


Q: Good afternoon Manus, afternoon snacking, garlic sausage / cheese / truffle sauce on cracker, and fruit scramble, for me, paired with Lincoln Lawyer, and for you below VLOGs, and yes, re the latest of our thematic narrative, Chinese language YouTube programs getting noisy (1) youtu.be (2) youtube.com (3) youtu.be (4) youtu.be (5) youtu.be (6) and an English language VLOG youtu.be . Please fact-check as best can.







To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (216651)9/19/2025 4:57:11 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217545
 
Dunno, but if what am nudged to suspect is half true, meaning a Nixon-moment and grand-bargain Message 35266352 ,

then (1)
(1-a) China continues to support USD system, because USA buying stuff from China, inflation down, rates down, stock market up
(1-b) Trump gets 'uge infrastructure-build that is actually doable
(1-c) Employments go way up in USA and in China, to MAGA
(1-d) Soybeans and Boeings gets sold and delivered
(1-e) Taiwan issue goes away
(2) Mid-term elections winnable, along with the Nobel Prize

(3) The show continues. Anyway, fun to watch, to see what, if anything, explains
(3-a) a Pakistani general hosted at the White House,
(3-b) why all the powers (UK, EU, Japan, S Korea, India, Pakistan, etc etc) doing all sorts nutsy last-minute rear-guard actions here there everywhere as if the show about to transition,
(3-c) How can one USA ally, Pakistan, and another USA ally, Saudi Arabia, do a mutual defense treaty without USA permission, whilst both sport China missiles technology and assembly plants
(3-d) If actually happens, what will be the purpose of Trump spending 4-hours on a China hi-speed rail
Let's see and wait and perhaps see some more, and perhaps all nonsense



To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (216651)9/19/2025 5:04:00 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217545
 
developments, and I doubt it is Taiwan for TikTok + Soybeans :0)))))) and )

am guessing Taiwan can buy the soybeans and dump it all into the ocean, but no way around the TikTok thing

bloomberg.com

Trump Halts $400 Million in Taiwan Military Aid, Post Reports

By Yian Lee

September 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM GMT+8

Takeaways by Bloomberg AI
  • President Donald Trump has declined to approve a more than $400 million military aid package for Taiwan as he seeks a trade deal with China.
  • The decision may still be reversed and the White House says the decision has not been finalized.
  • The pause in security assistance aligns with the Trump administration's efforts to cool tensions with Beijing as he seeks an expansive trade agreement with China.
President Donald Trump has declined to approve a more than $400 million military aid package for Taiwan as he seeks a trade deal with China, according to the Washington Post.

The shipment including munitions and autonomous drones was rejected in a decision this summer that may still be reversed, the newspaper reported Thursday evening US time, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.

The White House didn’t immediately respond to a Bloomberg News request for comment, but earlier told the Post the decision had not been finalized. The US’s de facto embassy in Taipei didn’t immediately respond to an inquiry, and the Taiwanese defense ministry said it was looking into the matter.

If confirmed, the pause in security assistance aligns with the Trump administration’s efforts to cool tensions with Beijing as he seeks an expansive trade agreement with the world’s second-largest economy. Trump is set to hold his first phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping since June on Friday, an exchange that may lead to a deal over TikTok’s US operations and pave the way for a meeting next month.

Beijing sees the self-ruled democracy of 23 million people as part of its territory and has regularly protested US arms transfers as provocative. Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun on Thursday repeated a warning against “external interference” over Taiwan at a regional defense forum in the Chinese capital in a veiled swipe at Washington.

The reported pause in aid also reflects Trump’s transactional approach to foreign policy, which prioritizes allies paying for their own defense. The administration’s view, according to the Post, is that Taiwan should purchase American weapons, rather than receive them through the Presidential Drawdown Authority, a process used several times by the Biden administration.

Taipei, for its part, has been ramping up its own defense commitments, partly to placate Washington. Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te plans to increase military spending and his government last week approved special funding to acquire more drones and ships.