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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |David Shavin |Gretchen Small |Cynthia R. Rush
March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Ivan Kanapathy, now the Deputy NSC Director under Mike Waltz, is a leading China hawk. As Deputy NSC Director he is responsible for crafting the Trump administration’s approach to China and Taiwan. A report by Laura Loomer, a far-right activist who ran for Congress in Florida and is reported to have connections with Donald Trump, complains about Kanapathy being allowed into the Trump team without being vetted and excluded.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | David Shavin |Michael Billington |Gretchen Small |Cynthia R. Rush
March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute usefully counterposed Donald Trump’s campaigning against the neo-con wars with the present neo-con drive, centered upon hitting Iran, to inveigle him into out-of-control religious warfare and a new strategic confrontation with Russia.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |David Shavin |Gretchen Small |Cynthia R. Rush
March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Israel launched a strike on a suburb of the Lebanese capital Friday, the first such attack on Beirut since late last year, when Hezbollah and Israel agreed to a ceasefire that ended months of deadly fighting. Israel also conducted strikes on more than 10 Lebanese towns and villages in the country’s south and east Friday, attacks that continued into the night, according to Lebanese state media, as reported in the Washington Post.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |Cynthia R. Rush |Gretchen Small |David Shavin
March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—RT wrote today: “New Delhi has announced that it is planning to build five indigenously-manufactured small modular reactors (SMR)—named Bharat nuclear reactors—in the next few years with the help of private participation. The ambitious plan to generate 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2047 is functional with a 170% increase in the nuclear energy budget in the last decade. The country’s federal budget for the 2025 financial year has laid the groundwork for a nuclear renaissance.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Cynthia R. Rush |Michael Billington |Gretchen Small |David Shavin
March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday threatened to use military force against the Maduro government of Venezuela, should it attack ExxonMobil oil facilities operating in Guyana’s territorial waters.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Cynthia R. Rush |Michael Billington |Gretchen Small |David Shavin
March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—This past week was another bad one for Argentine Finance Minister Luis Caputo, who frantically continued to sell scarce dollars to try to calm down the volatile financial and currency markets and keep the peso/dollar exchange rate from spiraling out of control. The “parallel” or black market exchange rate is equally unstable. Foreign reserves continue to drop–yesterday by $477 million; in the month of March by $1.4 billion, and so far this year $3.8 billion.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |Cynthia R. Rush |Gretchen Small
March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has announced that the new-generation fusion energy experiment, China Circulation-3, has for the first time achieved temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius for both atomic nuclei and electrons, marking a significant leap in performance parameters and a major breakthrough in China’s controlled nuclear fusion technology, CCTV News reported on March 28.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |David Shavin |Gretchen Small |Cynthia R. Rush
March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—The United States will enhance its military alliance with the Philippines as it aims to “reestablish deterrence” to counter “China’s aggression” in the Indo-Pacific region, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on March 28 during a trip to Manila.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |David Shavin |Gretchen Small |Cynthia R. Rush
March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 26, Oriana Skylar Mastro, an expert on the Chinese military, said that if the U.S. were to intervene in a contingency in the Taiwan Strait, the northern Philippines and southwest Japan will be the only areas that the U.S. military has access to that area in combat radius of the self-governing island.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |Cynthia R. Rush |Gretchen Small
March 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Indonesia is one of several countries facing instability and attacks on its currency from the international financial oligarchy. One of their responses is the creation of a new sovereign fund, called Danantara, to take over and expand the crucial state sector industries in the country. With over 280 million people, Indonesia is the world’s fourth most- populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country, with the largest Southeast Asian economy.
