CHINA

Apart from Mitt Romney's ridiculous slur against President Obama after the slaying of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Americans should focus on the state of affairs suggested by the following questions: When was the last time a Chinese diplomat was killed or even roughed up by an angry mob? When did you last hear about a Chinese embassy being burned down or pillaged?

Three Chinese warships from the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) docked in Haifa Aug. 13 for a five-day visit here as guests of the Israel Navy.

Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war. The recent surprise decision by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to abruptly lift subsidies on imported gasoline and other fuel has a far more sinister background than mere corruption and the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) is playing a key role. China appears to be the likely loser along with Nigeria's population.

China is recasting large gold bars into smaller size bars in preparation for a world trade system in which dollars are worthless as legal tender outside the United States.  While Homeland Security is busy buying 450 million hollow point rounds, China has been gradually selling US Treasury bonds and using the money to buy real assets in Africa, Asia, Latin America and elsewhere so there is no cut off of supplies to their industries and their people when trade collapses along with the dollar and the euro.

And he's on CCTV, the state run television channel

The global power shift continues to accelerate

How can someone at the head of an organisation representing the interests of so many large corporations display such an astounding level of ignorance?

It seems to me that the Russian and Chinese refusal to veto the Security Council’s resolution concerning Libya was no accident. Rather I want to suggest that Russia and China decided, coldly and deliberately, to sacrifice Libya.  As a consequence there was no obstacle delaying or preventing Russian recognition of the post Gadhafi government. If I am correct, then that deliberate sacrifice provides startling new evidence, like nothing else ever before, of their long-term strategic planning of allowing NATO to be sucked even deeper into what will eventually become a Middle East quagmire (i.e., a military grave-yard or cemetery) from which there will be no escape for NATO. Perhaps the Russian strategy is to wait until NATO is in the most vulnerable military position before it launches its attack.

A flurry of headlines out of China suggest global macro-economic volatility may be ready to take it to the next level.

Lord Jacob Rothschild traveled to Beijing to promote the JRC private equity fund that will raise the yuan and allow Chinese to invest overseas. The fund will focus on European and American pharmaceuticals, bio-technology, clean energy, high-end equipment, environmental protection and IT technology.

"Tiny mouse" Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely took over the "elephant" carmaker Volvo for more than $1.3 billion in 2010 with the assistance of Rothschild, the more-than-200-year-old family-controlled banking dynasty.  There are 55 Rothschild merger advisers in China, more than any foreign investment bank, says Olivier Pecoux, co-chief executive officer of Rothschild.

Born into a Brooklyn Jewish family in 1915, Shapiro is known to millions of Chinese as Sha Boli (Shah Bo-Lee): longtime “friend of China” and portrayer of perfidious Americans in Chinese movies. “I’m … in admiration of the fundamental ideas [of Judaism], but also a member of the news and publications committee of the Chinese People’s [Political] Consultative Conference as an agent of the foreign propaganda department of the party.” Several photos show him flanked by major leaders of the Chinese Communist Party.

British Petroleum possesses 38% of the contract and the Chinese – 37%, while Iraq’s state-owned Southern Iraq Oil Company owns the remaining 25% of the contract.