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The world is in a trade war, according to the left and the libertarian right. Furthermore, this odd couple tells us that this will be detrimental to American society. They add that it will lead to inflation. These arguments are deeply flawed. These premises presented against Donald J. Trump’s tariff implementations reflect static analysis, romanticized faulty interpretations, and political posturing.

Upon the conclusion of World War II, the U.S. began a course of subsidizing the economies of war-torn Europe and Asia. Supporting the importing of goods from these inflicted countries was viewed as a way to build strong democracies and stabilize the globe. Thus, a slow but sure path of wealth transfer began from the U.S. to these regions. An international division of labor was set up, and it seemed to go hand in hand with the idea that globalized capitalism would benefit everyone. Americans would get products cheaper, and West Europeans and Asians from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong (then tied to the U.K.), and Singapore would build an industrial base.

The evil of communism proliferated after the Second World War. The U.S., lacking the necessary foresight and believing that capitalism was a cure-all, decided to underwrite the transition of a centrally planned socialist economy to a market-compliant, politically controlled socialist economy in China. During the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1978, Deng Xiaoping defended Marxism-Leninism, evoked Karl Marx’s emphasis on “revolutionary practice,” and Lenin’s New Economic Policy, and launched the structure of "socialism with Chinese characteristics." The U.S. believed that what it perceived as having worked in Western Europe and non-communist Asia could be applied to Chinese communism, and democracy would spring up.

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump ha dicho que, si Canadá se convierte en el Estado 51, de la Unión Norteamericana, todos los aranceles que ha impuesto a sus importaciones “desaparecerían por completo”.

El nuevo primer ministro de Canadá, Mark Carney, ex banquero globalista, rebatió, refiriéndose a la guerra comercial, que “destruirá nuestra forma de vida".

Aunque la disputa comercial entre los dos países ha causado una reacción descontrolada, los medios de propaganda desinforman sobre dos puntos básicos: a) las bromas estratégicas de Trump y b) los altísimos aranceles que países como Canadá le han impuesto históricamente a EEUU.

Cansados del ingrato oportunismo del mundo entero contra su país, los trumpistas han disfrutado mucho las bromas de su presidente a costa de los canadienses, especialmente cuando se refirió al saliente ministro de Canadá, como Gobernador Trudeau, o cuando sugiere burlonamente al país del norte como otro estado. Es su manera de subrayar la hipocresía globalista: por una parte, depende social y económica de Estados Unidos y por otra, como protectorado del Reino Unido, baila al son que le toca la Unión Europea.

Governments hate gold because it's a discipline on the amount of currency they can create. Gold is money. Governments can't create it out of thin air. You might say that gold needs the government about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

Gold is not a strategic asset. It shouldn't be viewed as something to buy or sell, like land, copper, or a factory. You don't buy or sell money; that's almost a contradictory concept. Gold is money itself, although fiat currencies are treated as money in today's world. Confusing gold with fiat currency is one of the terrible notions created by Keynesian economists. It's allowed mainstream financial commentators to dismiss gold as a pet rock.

The Federal Reserve officials and policy makers routinely downplay the importance of gold. They believe that fiat currency and central banking have made gold obsolete. They're 100% wrong. Despite their theories and stated beliefs, governments around the world have been buying massive amounts of gold in recent years. They're dumping dollars. For 25 years after World War II, the major asset of other central banks has been US dollars.

It made sense at the time because the dollars were convenient and guaranteed to be redeemed at $35 for an ounce of gold up to 1971. Now, however, the US government backs its dollars with nothing. Foreign governments can see that the US government is fiscally and monetarily totally out of control. They've seen the US arbitrarily confiscate assets, impose sanctions, and levy duties. They're dumping dollars because it's increasingly obvious they're the unsecured liability of a bankrupt and unreliable government. They're accumulating gold.

For over six decades, the United States has been one of the staunchest friends of the Tibetan people in their struggle to protect their religion and culture against the repressive policies of the People’s Republic of China. There has always been broad bipartisan agreement that the Tibetan people deserve self-determination, democracy, and the right to religious and cultural freedom.

The aid that the United States has provided to the Tibetans, while miniscule in the scale of US foreign assistance, has played a crucial role. This is why the reductions in foreign assistance and freezing other international support programs, including the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), are already having a severe impact on Tibetan society, both inside Tibet and in exile communities in India and Nepal.

In response, the International Campaign for Tibet has been working around the clock in coordination with the Office of Tibet in Washington, DC, to meet with Congressional and Administration officials—and to remind them about the importance of Tibet and the statutory requirement to help the Tibetan people.