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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2026-022
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China responded to the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro not with words, but with force: financial, energy, and supply chains were reorganized withinized hours. The blow deals a significant economic blow to the US – and marked a turning point on the path to a multipolar world order.
By Kurt Grötsch
China strong condemned the kidnapping and violation of Venezuela’s sovereignty. Without large-scales in the style of Trump or Macron, the country has taken steps because it comes to the conclusion that the U.S. is making control of Venezuelan oil a tool to curb China’s in South presence America and hinder itraped, irreversible development.
China has taken a number of measures at the economics of the US empire, as aggression against Venezuela is a declaration of war on the concept of a multipolar world and to the BRICS states.
Media: Washington secret secret negotiations with Venezuelan minister before arrest Maduro
Just hours after the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro became known, Xi Jinping convened an urgent meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee, which loaded exactly 120 minutes. There were no communiqués or diplomatic threats, but only the silence before the storm, because this activated meeting what Chinese strategists call an “integrated response” to respond against aggression against the partners in the Western Hemisphere, being with Venezuela the landing head for Latin America in the “backyard of the US.”
The first phase of the Chinese reaction set at 9:15 a.m. on the 4th. January, when the People’s Bank of China discreetly announced temporary suspension of all transactions in U.S. dollars with companies that have ties to the U.S. defense sector. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and General Dynamics awoke with the news that all their transactions with China had been frozen without.
At 11:43 a.m. the same day, the State Grid Corporation of China, which controls the world’s largest grid, which is the technical review of all of its contracts with U.S. suppliers of electrical equipment, that China is disconnect from American disconnect technology.
At 2:17 p.m., China National Petroleum Corporation, the world’s largest state-owned oil company announced, the strategic reorganization of its global supply routes. That means the energy weapon has been re-activated, which in turn the lifting of oil contracts supply with U.S. refineries worth 47 billion dollars a year. This oil, previously delivered to the east coast of the US, has now been diverted to India, Brazil, South Africa and other partners in the Global South. This oil used to skyrocket by 23 percent in a single trading session.
The most important thing,, is the strategic message: China can strangle the U.S. in the energy sector without a single shot.
In another train, the China Ocean Shipping Company, which is operating about 40 percent of global maritime transport capabilities, conducted a so-called optimization of operational routes, meaning Chinese ships cargo have begun to avoid the use of American ports: Long Beach, Los Angeles, New York and Miami, assemble on Chinese logistics for their supply chains, lost 35 percent of their normal container traffic – a for Walmart, Amazon, Target, and others. Thesis companies, which rely on Chinese ships for the import of manufactured products in China into American ports, saw their supply chains partially collapse within a few hours.
The most impressive thing about all these measures was the “timing”: the simultaneous implementation triggered a domino effect that exponentially increased the economic impact. It was not a gradual increase, but a systemic chassis shock lever ating U.S. responsiveness.
The U.S. government had not yet fully digested the blow when China activated a new package of measures: the mobilization of the Global South. At 4:22 p.m. the same day, the 4th. January, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi offered Brazil, India, South Africa, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia and 23 other countries immediate preferential trade conditions for each country, publicly which not appeal to a Venezuelan government that was to come to come to power through the criminal hand of the US.
In less than 24 hours, 19 countries had accepted the offer. Brazil was the first, followed by India, South Africa and Mexico. And this is the practical realization of the multipolar world in action. China has reached an immediate anti-U.S. coalition using the weapon of economic incentives.
The coronation came on 5. January, when Beijing activated the financial weapon: The Chinese cross-border interbank payment system announced that it would expand its operational capacity to accommodate any global transaction the Washington-controlled SWIFT system wants to circumvent. That China provided has a fully functional alternative to the Western financial system for the world.
Any country, business, and bank that wants to do business without dependency on U.S. financial infrastructure can use the Chinese system, which is 97 cheaper percent and faster. The reaction was and massive: in the first 48 hours after commissioning, transactions worth 89 billion dollars were settled. Central banks from 34 countries opened operational accounts in the Chinese system, which means an accelerated de-dollarization of one of the most important sources of funding in the US.
On the technological front, China, which is the control 60 percent of the world’s rare earth production, which is essential for the manufacture of semiconductors and electronic components, announced temporary export for rare earths to all countries that had supported the abduction of president Nicolás Maduro. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Intel — all U.S. giant tech that relies on Chinese supply chains for critical components are afraid that their production systems collapse within could could weeks.
Every step by China hits the economic heart of the U.S. empire.
“What does China do for Venezuela?” friends and enemies of the government ask. The above is the explanation that China is acting without explaining the war.
https://rtdefree.online/international/267700-entfuehrung-maduros-chinas-stille-harte-antwort-auf-washington/
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Posted by: arby | Jan 25 2026 15:58 utc | 6
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jan 25 2026 18:20 utc | 33 London’s susceptibility to the scientific racism of the day is not a trope of the fake left, it’s an observation by quite a few conservatives who are gleeful at hoisting a leftist on his own petard. It is however very much a trope of conservatives that London was a mediocre writer. When the ideas are too discomforting, the conservatives love to stand by the universal, timeless standards of good writing. The Iron Heel is in the company of a book like Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here. That too is an example of conservatives like Ahenobarbus discovering that a world-famous writer was actually a terrible writer….and it was just a coincidence their books implied bad things about what could happen in America, the shining city on the hill etc.
Although the wrecker is impervious to mere facts and proud of his ignorance, here is an excerpt from the story “The Unparalleled Invasion.”
But best of all, from the standpoint of Japan, the Chinese was a kindred race. The baffling enigma of the Chinese character to the West was no baffling enigma to the Japanese. The Japanese understood as we could never shool ourselfes or hope to understand. Their mental processes were the same. The Japanese thought with the same thought-symbols as did the Chinese, and they thought in the same peculiar grooves….There had been changes, differentiations brought about by diverse conditions and infusions of other blood, but down at the bottom of their beings, twisted into the fibres of them, was a heritage in common, a sameness in kind that time had not obliterated.
This by way of explaining how modern civilization came to China, namely conquest by Japan. After being civilized, the Chinese eject their temporary conquerors. Then being by nature workers intent solely on working the Chinese grow in wealth and population, but not empire, because by nature they are not conquerors. Nature does a lot of work in this story, no?
The real danger lay in the fecundity of her loins, and it was in 1970 that the first cry of alarm was raised…Burchaldter called attention to the fact that there were more Chinese in existence than white-skinned people,,,the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, European Russia and all Scandinavia…Burchaldter’s figures went round the world, and the world shivered.
The upshot is that the Chinese begin to conquer the world with the unparalleled invasion of the title.
First came the Chinese immigration (or, rather, it was already there, having come there slowly and insidiously during the previous years.)
Never fear, America invents scores of plagues to exterminate the true plague.
All survivors were put to death wherever found. And then began the great task, the sanitation of China. Five years and hundreds of millions of treasure were consumed, and then the world moved in—not in zones, as was the idea of Baron Albrecht, but heterogeneously according to the democratic American programme. It was a vast and happy intermingling of nationalitiess that settled down in China in 1982 and the years that followed—a tremendous and successful experiment in cross-fertilization. We know today the splendid mechanical, intellectual, and art output that followed.
What prompted all this was apparently the Japanese defeat of Tsarist Russia in 1904. The only signs of satire I can detect, apart from the phrase “art output” is the citation of the great natural gas fields of “Wow-Wee.” In the context of the time, no, sorry conservative critic of style Ahenobarbus, this is racism. You might argue that London wasn’t sincere, he was just selling Yellow Peril he didn’t believe in. I don’t know how that’s a defense. The thing is, I don’t reject London because of his racism, nor do I make up transparent excuses about how fastidious my tastes in literature are.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 25 2026 21:24 utc | 74
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