{"id":214883,"date":"2022-06-13T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=214883"},"modified":"2022-06-11T03:55:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T02:55:24","slug":"bilderberg-meets-in-washington-bilderberg-does-china-an-economic-hurricane-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/06\/bilderberg-meets-in-washington-bilderberg-does-china-an-economic-hurricane-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilderberg Meets in Washington: Bilderberg Does China&#8211;An Economic Hurricane Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bilderberg-logo.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-214884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bilderberg-logo.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bilderberg-logo.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bilderberg-logo-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>7 Jun 2022 &#8211; <em>Discreetly, as under the radar as a looming virus, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bilderbergmeetings.org\/press\/press-release\/press-release\" >68th Bilderberg meeting<\/a>\u00a0is currently underway in Washington, D.C. Nothing to see here. No conspiracy theories about a \u201csecret cabal\u201d, please. This is just a docile, \u201cdiverse group of political leaders and experts\u201d having a chat, a laugh, and a bubbly.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, one cannot but notice that the choice of venue speaks more volumes than the entire \u2013 burned to the ground \u2013 Library of Alexandria. In the year heralding the explosion of a much-awaited NATO vs. Russia proxy war, discussing its myriad ramifications does suit the capital of the Empire of Lies, much more than Davos a few weeks ago, where one Henry Kissinger sent them into a frenzy by advancing the necessity of a toxic compromise named \u201cdiplomacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The list of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bilderbergmeetings.org\/press\/press-release\/participants\" >Bilderberg 2022 participants<\/a> is a joy to peruse. Here are just some of the stalwarts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Baker, Consigliere extraordinaire, now a mere Director of the Office of Net Assessment at the Pentagon.<\/li>\n<li>Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso, former head of the European Commission, later the recipient of a golden parachute in the form of Chairman of Goldman Sachs International.<\/li>\n<li>Albert Bourla, the Pfizer Big Guy.<\/li>\n<li>William Burns, CIA director.<\/li>\n<li>Kurt Campbell, the guy who invented the Obama\/Hillary \u201cpivot to Asia\u201d, now White House Coordinator for Indo-Pacific.<\/li>\n<li>Mark Carney, former Bank of England, one of the designers of the Great Reset, now Vice Chair of Brookfield Asset Management.<\/li>\n<li>Henry Kissinger, The Establishment\u2019s Voice (or a war criminal: take your pick).<\/li>\n<li>Charles Michel, President of the European Council.<\/li>\n<li>Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, which will duly\u00a0 relay all major Bilderberg directives in the magazine\u2019s upcoming cover stories.<\/li>\n<li>David Petraeus, certified loser of endless surges and Chairman of KKR Global Institute.<\/li>\n<li>Mark Rutte, hawkish Prime Minister of the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>Jens Stoltenberg, NATO top parrot, sorry, secretary-general.<\/li>\n<li>Jake Sullivan, Director of the National Security Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ideological and geopolitical affiliations of these members of the \u201cdiverse group\u201d need no further elaboration. It gets positively sexier when we see what they will be discussing.<\/p>\n<p>Among other issues we find<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cNATO challenges\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIndo-Pacific realignment\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>\u201ccontinuity of government and economy\u201d (Conspirationists: continuity in case of nuclear war?);<\/li>\n<li>\u201cdisruption of global financial system\u201d (already on);<\/li>\n<li>\u201cpost-pandemic health\u201d (Conspirationists: how to engineer the next pandemic?);<\/li>\n<li>\u201ctrade and deglobalization\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>and of course, the choice wagyu beef steaks: Russia and China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Bilderberg follows Chatham House Rules, mere mortals won\u2019t have a clue of what they actually \u201cproposed\u201d or approved, and none of the participants will be allowed to talk about it with anyone else. One of my top New York sources, with direct access to most of the Masters of the Universe, loves to quip that Davos and Bilderberg are just for the messenger boys: the guys who really run the show don\u2019t even bother to show up, ensconced in their uber-private meetings in uber-private clubs, where the real decisions are made.<\/p>\n<p>Still, anyone following in some detail the rotten state of the \u201crules-based international order\u201d will have a pretty good idea about the 2022 Bilderberg chatter.<\/p>\n<h2>What the Chinese say<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Secretary of State Little Blinken<\/strong> \u2013 Sullivan\u2019s sidekick in the ongoing Crash Test Dummy administration\u2019s Dumb and Dumber remake \u2013 has recently claimed that China \u201csupports\u201d Russia on Ukraine instead of remaining neutral.<\/p>\n<p>What really matters here is that Little Blinken is implying that Beijing\u00a0wants to destabilize Asia-Pacific \u2013 which is a notorious absurdity. Yet that\u2019s the master narrative that must pave the way for the US to muscle up its \u00a0\u201cIndo-Pacific\u201d concoction. And that\u2019s the briefing Sullivan and Kurt Campbell will be delivering to the \u201cdiverse group\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Davos \u2013 with its new self-billed mantra, \u201cThe Great Narrative\u201d \u2013 completely excluded Russia. Bilderberg is mostly about containment of China<\/strong> \u2013 which after all is the number one existential threat to the Empire of Lies and its satrapies.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than wait for Bilderberg morsels dispensed by The Economist, it\u2019s much more productive to check out what a cross-section of fact-based Chinese intelligentsia thinks about the new \u201ccollective West\u201d racket.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with <strong>Justin Lin Yifu<\/strong>, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and now Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, and <strong>Sheng Songcheng<\/strong>, former head of the Financial Survey and Statistic Dept. a the Bank of China.<\/p>\n<p>They <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/readchina.info\/en-US\/articles\/582524134345408617\" >advance<\/a> that if China achieves \u201cdynamic zero infection\u201d on Covid-19 by the end of May (that actually happened: see the end of the Shanghai lockdown), China\u2019s economy may grow by 5.5% in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>They dismiss the imperial attempt to establish an \u201cAsian version of NATO\u201d: \u201cAs long as China continues to grow at a higher rate and to open up, European and ASEAN countries would not participate in the US\u2019s decoupling trap so as to ensure their economic growth and job creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three academics from the Shanghai Institute of International Studies and Fudan University <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/readchina.info\/en-US\/articles\/583715462253117441\" >touch<\/a> on the same point: the American-announced \u201cIndo-Pacific Economic Framework\u201d, supposed to be the economic pillar of the Indo-Pacific strategy, is nothing but a cumbersome attempt to \u201cweaken the internal cohesion and regional autonomy of ASEAN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liu Zongyi<\/strong> stresses that China\u2019s position at the heart of the vastly inter-connected Asian supply chains \u201chas been consolidated\u201d, especially now with the onset of the largest trade deal on the planet, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chen Wengling<\/strong>, Chief Economist of a think tank under the key National Development and Reform Commission, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/readchina.info\/en-US\/articles\/583592902026854526\" >notes <\/a>\u00a0the \u201ccomprehensive ideological and technological war against China\u201d launched by the Americans.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s keen to stress how they are \u201cnot ready for a hot war as the US and Chinese economies are so closely linked.\u201d The crucial vector is that \u201cthe US has not yet made substantial progress in strengthening its supply chain focusing on four key fields including semiconductors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chen worries about \u201cChina\u2019s energy security\u201d; \u201cChina\u2019s silence\u201d on US sanctions on Russia, which \u201cmay result in US retaliation\u201d; and crucially, how \u201cChina\u2019s plan of building the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with Ukraine and EU countries will be affected.\u201d What will happen in practice is BRI will be privileging economic corridors across Iran and West Asia, as well as the Maritime Silk Road, instead of the Trans-Siberian corridor across Russia.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s up to Yu Yongding, from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank, to go for the jugular, noting how\u201d the global financial system and the US dollar have been weaponized into geopolitical tools. The nefarious behavior of the US in freezing foreign exchange reserves has not only seriously damaged the international credibility of the US but has also shaken the credit foundation of the dominant international financial system in the West.<\/p>\n<p>He expresses the consensus among Chinese intel, that \u201cif there is a geopolitical conflict between the US and China, then China\u2019s overseas assets will be seriously threatened, especially its huge reserves. Therefore, the composition of China\u2019s external financial assets and liabilities urgently needs to be adjusted and the portion of US dollar denominated assets in its reserves portfolio should be reduced.<\/p>\n<h2>This chessboard sucks<\/h2>\n<p>A serious debate is raging across virtually all sectors of Chinese society on the American weaponization of the world financial casino. The conclusions are inevitable: get rid of US Treasuries, fast, by any means necessary; more imports of commodities and strategic materials (thus the importance of the Russia-China strategic partnership); and firmly secure overseas assets, especially those foreign currency reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Bilderberg\u2019s \u201cdiverse group\u201d, on the other side of the pond, is discussing, among other things, what will really happen in case they force the IMF racket to blow up (a key plan to implement The Great Reset, or \u201cGreat Narrative\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>They are starting to literally freak out with the slowly but surely emergence of an alternative, resource-based monetary\/financial system: exactly what the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) is currently discussing and designing, with Chinese input.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a counter-Bilderberg system where a basket of Global South actors, resource-rich but economically poor, are able to issue their own currencies backed by commodities, and finally get rid of their status of IMF hostages. They are all paying close attention to the Russia gas-for-rubles experiment.<\/p>\n<p>And in China\u2019s particular case, what will always matter is loads of productive capital underpinning a massive, extremely deep industrial and civil infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Davos and Bilderberg messenger boys, when they look at The Grand Chessboard, are filled with dread: their era of perpetual free lunch is over. What would delight cynics, skeptics, neoplatonists and Taoists galore is that it was Davos-Bilderberg Men (and Women) who actually boxed themselves into <em>zugzwang<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>All dressed up \u2013 with nowhere to go. Even JP Morgan\u2019s Jamie Dimon \u2013 who didn\u2019t even bother to go to Bilderberg \u2013 is scared, saying an economic \u201churricane\u201d is coming. And overturning the chessboard is no remedy: at best that may invite a ceremonious tuxedo visit by Mr. Sarmat and Mr. Zircon carrying some hypersonic bubbly.<\/p>\n<p><em>_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pepe-escobar-1.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-205220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pepe-escobar-1-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil, is a correspondent and editor-at-large at <\/em>Asia Times <em>and<\/em> <em>columnist for<\/em> Consortium News <em>and<\/em> Strategic Culture<em> in Moscow. Since the mid-1980s he\u2019s lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Singapore, and Bangkok. He has extensively covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia to China, Iran, Iraq and the wider Middle East. He is the author of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/hybrid-war-hyenas-tearing-brazil-apart-pepe-escobar\/www.amazon.com\/Globalistan-Globalized-World-Dissolving-Liquid\/dp\/0978813820\/\" >Globalistan<\/a><em> (2007),<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Zone-Blues-snapshot-Baghdad\/dp\/0978813898\" >Red Zone Blues<\/a><em> (2007), <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/hybrid-war-hyenas-tearing-brazil-apart-pepe-escobar\/www.amazon.com\/Obama-Does-Globalistan-Pepe-Escobar\/dp\/1934840831\" >Obama Does Globalistan<\/a><em> (2009), <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Empire-Chaos-Pepe-Escobar\/dp\/1608881644\" >Empire of Chaos<\/a><em> (2014) and <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/hybrid-war-hyenas-tearing-brazil-apart-pepe-escobar\/www.amazon.com\/2030-Pepe-Escobar\/dp\/1608880354\/\" >2030<\/a><em> (2015), all by Nimble Books. Pepe was contributing editor to <\/em>The Empire and The Crescent <em>and<\/em> Tutto in Vendita <em>in Italy and is also associated with the Paris-based European Academy of Geopolitics. When not on the road he lives between Paris and Bangkok. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a9 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/pepe-escobar\" title=\"Posts by Pepe Escobar\" >Pepe Escobar<\/a>, Global Research, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/bilderberg-does-china\/5782525\" >Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 Jun 2022 &#8211; Discreetly, as under the radar as a looming virus, the 68th Bilderberg meeting\u00a0is currently underway in Washington, D.C. Nothing to see here. No conspiracy theories about a \u201csecret cabal\u201d, please. This is just a docile, \u201cdiverse group of political leaders and experts\u201d having a chat, a laugh, and a bubbly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":214884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2230,232,244,1385,555,1268,278,923,70,172,1160],"class_list":["post-214883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","tag-bilderberg-group","tag-capitalism","tag-china","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-elites","tag-european-union","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-usa","tag-west","tag-world-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}