The collapse of the Russian ruble and the Chinese yuan shows why a potential BRICS currency is not a threat to the U.S. dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency, Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow Friday.
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The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China on Tuesday confirmed it has been conducting joint patrols with Russia near the Alaskan coast, promised the provocative activity will only intensify, and said the U.S. was hypocritical to complain because it insists on supposedly comparable freedom of navigation patrols in the South China Sea.
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Hunter Biden’s best friend in business, Devon Archer, told House investigators that Hunter Biden included then-Vice President Joe Biden on speakerphone over 20 times with business associates to sell “the brand.”
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Russia halted an unprecedented wartime deal on Monday that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed more people into poverty.
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President Joe Biden on Thursday issued an executive order authorizing the Pentagon to call reservists to active duty “for the effective conduct” of U.S. military support to Ukraine.
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Ukraine, which is now engaged in a counter-offensive against Russian forces, is set to receive a round of cluster bombs from the Biden administration in a drawdown of weapons that bypasses U.S. law.
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As the strange mutiny unfolded in Russia between Vladimir Putin, his Russian defense leaders, and mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, former President Donald Trump issued a warning to those eager for a coup or a Russian civil war.
“A big mess in Russia, but be careful what you wish for,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Saturday. “Next in may be far worse!”
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French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly asked South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to invite him to the BRICS summit in Johannesburg this August, in a June 3 phone conversation that was made public this week.
The core members of BRICS are Brazil, Russia, India, and China, with South Africa added in 2011. The general goal of BRICS is to create an alternative to the G7 that is aligned more closely with the interests of developing nations – a role China still claims, even as it has become one of the world’s largest economies.
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The major oil-producing countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia are wrestling with whether to make another cut in supply to the global economy as the OPEC+ alliance struggles to prop up sagging oil prices that have been a boon to U.S. drivers and helped ease inflation worldwide.
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There could be “nuclear weapons for everyone” who wants to join the Union between Russia and Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko said.
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China’s Foreign Ministry and state media portrayed dictator Xi Jinping’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday as a sweeping diplomatic triumph, with Zelensky practically begging Beijing to take a leading role in negotiations to end the Russian invasion.
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French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly actively working on a “secret plan” with Communist China to attempt to broker a peace deal by the summer between Russia and Ukraine.
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Investigators have taken an Air National Guardsman into custody in the case of leaked classified documents that shed light on the war in Ukraine and rattled the U.S. government.
The leaked documents revealed sensitive information about the war in Ukraine, including warnings that China was considering giving Russia military aid and secret plans by South Korea to deliver more than 300,000 rounds of ammunition to Ukrainian forces.
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House Republicans are calling on Biden administration’s national security officials to “utilize the full application of sanctions, export controls, and diplomacy” to block a Russian state-owned energy company from helping China to expand its nuclear weapons program and warn this relationship is a “direct threat” to U.S. national security.
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