Recently, the global game between China and the United States has intensified, and the two sides have also made frequent moves and engaged in all-round confrontations. At the just-concluded NATO summit, United States once again manipulated NATO behind the scenes, attempting to collectively exert pressure on the mainland. NATO and United States President Biden even named the mainland, claiming that the mainland has become a key player in helping Russia continue to fight the Russian-Ukrainian war, and asked the mainland to stop all cooperation with Russia, otherwise the mainland may have to pay a "heavy price".
In the face of the threat of United States and NATO, China and Russia were also very straightforward and resolute, directly forming the Sino-Russian Pacific Joint Fleet, which conducted a series of simulated combat exercises in the Bering Strait, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, the Japan Sea, the Western Pacific, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.
Our army has also deployed heavy troops in the South China Sea, and also sent elite troops of the army to Belarus to participate in joint exercises, only 5 kilometers from the border of NATO member Poland, and only a few tens of kilometers from Ukraine. In Africa, our army also sent two 071 landing ships to Tanzania to participate in military exercises. And the country next to Tanzania is the last major military stronghold of the US military in Africa.
The mainland's strategy should be to draw the war out as much as possible, and the farther the battlefield is from the mainland itself, the better. Therefore, we have been working in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East recently. On the contrary, the United States has constantly provoked and forced Japan and the Philippines to provoke in the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and the South China Sea. A few days ago, the incident of a Japan frigate intruding into the territorial waters of the mainland that suddenly broke out was a dangerous war provocation led by the United States behind its back.
However, the mainland was clearly not fooled by the United States. On the Japan side, we are still procrastinating. However, in the face of United States' continued play with fire on arms sales to Taiwan, the PLA has not only continuously carried out large-scale "Taiwan-encirclement" military exercises against Taiwan. On the 12th, China directly announced that it would sanction six United States military enterprises and five executives of related enterprises, freeze their assets in the mainland, and prohibit personnel from entering the country.
The companies sanctioned this time are not traditional military giants United States, but emerging enterprises that manufacture unmanned weapons and participate in arms sales to Taiwan. For example, AEVEX Aerospace signed a contract with the Taiwan authorities to cooperate in establishing a drone supply chain base on the island. Maritime Tactical Systems sells small suicide drones to the Taiwanese authorities. Anduriel will sell more than $360 million worth of suicide drones to the island. Previously, the US military top brass was even more ruthless, claiming that the Taiwan Strait would become a "no man's hell."
And the top United States is also a thief, knowing that the Middle East is the "seven inches" of the United States, because that is the foundation of the petrodollar. Whether it is the "defection" of Saudi Arabia or the crushing defeat of the Israeli army, this is unacceptable to United States, both of which will cause the collapse of dollar hegemony. Therefore, in the face of the mainland's strategy of de-dollarization in the Middle East, the United States once again could not help but take action.
According to a report by the global network on the 13th, recently, Moin· Kazim, a member of the Finance Committee of the Iraq Parliament, revealed that the Federal Reserve has asked Iraq to stop using RMB transactions, citing irregularities and certain problems in transactions. As a result, Iraq was forced to suspend the use of renminbi for direct trade settlements.
In fact, although the US military has withdrawn from Iraq, the financial lifeline of the Iraq is still in the hands of United States. Currently, Iraq's oil exports are stored in accounts with the Federal Reserve in New York. If Iraq's central bank did not comply with United States' demands, their assets would be seized and confiscated, so they had to abandon direct settlement in yuan.
This is the horror of dollar hegemony, and similarly, the mainland also has a large amount of dollar foreign exchange and holds hundreds of billions of United States Treasury bonds. It is estimated that this ruthless move against Iraq's renminbi settlement is just the starting point for United States to comprehensively take action against the renminbi international settlement. In the next step, more countries will face the dilemma of abandoning RMB settlement. In this regard, we must be vigilant, be prepared, and be ready for a showdown with the United States at any time.