The legal dam just broke 👍
🇨🇳 China's 2021 Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law was always a sword waiting to be drawn
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) just officially stamped the first ruling as a "representative case" mandatorily applying the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law — and the message is surgical: "US sanctions are not a defense in our courts" — and every multinational with a China contract just felt the ground shift!
A Singaporean carrier refused to ship electronics from Shanghai to Panama because the Hong Kong client was on a US sanctions list. They returned the cargo. Caused losses. The Shanghai Maritime Court said: pay RMB 4.99M in damages. Article 12 of China's AFSL is an overriding mandatory provision — it doesn't matter what your contract says, what law you chose, or how scared you are of America's OFAC. If you help enforce foreign "discriminatory restrictions" against a Chinese party, you're liable. Full stop. No appeal filed. Judgment is final!
This isn't one case. This is precedent being set at the highest level. The SPC just told every lower court in the country: sanctions compliance is not a defense.
The geopolitical architecture here is the real story. Washington's entire sanctions toolkit relies on secondary sanctions — threatening third-country companies into compliance through fear. Beijing just flipped the board: comply with US sanctions in a Chinese jurisdiction, and YOU get sued. The "fear of OFAC" is no longer a shield. It's a liability!
For decades, Western especially U.S. sanctions were the gravity that global commerce orbited around. Companies and Banks built entire compliance departments around it. Sanctions clauses were automatic, unnegotiable, baked into every template.
Now there's a counter-gravity well. And it has teeth.
If you're a carrier, a bank, a supplier — you can't just flip the switch on a Chinese counterparty because Washington says so. Not if you have assets or operations in Greater China. Not if you ever want to litigate or do business there again.
The BLOWBACK is exquisite. The US built an entire extraterritorial enforcement regime on the premise that its domestic law has global reach — "long-arm jurisdiction," as the SPC itself called it. China is now deploying the same logic in reverse, but with actual statutory authority and now judicial precedent to back it.
We're watching the fragmentation of global commercial law and compliance in real time. Two competing legal gravity centers. No neutral ground
https://t.co/M3iqPWux6O
Really funny situation happened to us today in Xinjiang.
The way it started was not so funny: when we rented our RV we gave our 3 empty luggage to the RV rental company for safekeeping, as they'd have taken way too much room in the RV. However, in the 34 days we were traveling, they somehow managed to lose all three.
Not to worry, the boss of the RV company personally called us to apologize and told us he'd buy us 3 new luggage.
The day after we gave back the RV, he texted us to ask us where we were and told us he'd send a car to pick us up and go luggage shopping.
A little while later, a large black Audi S8 shows up, I open the door in the back and there he was: barefoot, funny shorts, black tank top, glass of Romanée-Conti in hand. The boss had personally come to buy the luggage with us 😅
He genuinely had a larger than life personality, in a way you can only see in China (watch the video for a small preview).
He brought us to a market with many luggage shops.
We went to the first shop: he told us to choose 3 luggage we liked while he was outside, walking barefoot in the street, drinking his wine, eating sausages on sticks that he'd asked his driver to fetch for him, and smoking cigarette after cigarette, sometimes all at the same time.
After we'd chosen 3 luggage we liked, he makes his entrance to discuss price. And he starts bargaining, really hard but in such a hilarious way no-one in the shop could help laughing, going into tirades on how he was a Xinjiang local, how these luggage were worth nothing, how they were trying to scam him - all delivered barefoot with a glass of red wine and a sausage on a stick, like a man who'd been bargaining in markets since birth and had simply decided at some point that shoes were optional.
Anyhow he drove the price down to 1,200 RMB for 3 good quality luggage ($180, which is already pretty cheap) but he wasn't satisfied so off we went to a second shop.
In the second shop, same process: we choose 3 luggage we like and tell the boss to come over for the price negotiation. And there again, he puts on the same show but, having witnessed the carnage next door, they were more... cooperative: 980 RMB for 3 luggage (which were actually bigger and better than in the 1st shop).
Still not good enough. The man had arrived in a Audi S8 with a driver, drinking Romanée-Conti and was now going to war over the last 200 yuan. Off to a 3rd shop.
When he arrived in the 3rd shop, the shop boss - who had followed everything that happened in the first 2 shops from a distance (half the market had) - was already laughing. Our man walked in, barefoot, wine in hand, and opened with: "you heard what happened with the 2 others, you'll give us a good price, won't you?"
He still drove a very hard bargain, threatening to leave at least three times, so much so he got all the way down to 760 RMB - $110 - for our 3 luggage, which frankly speaking where the best yet, an amazingly low price.
By that point I was so amused that I asked if I could film him: he agreed and delivered the tirade you see on the video, covering Confucius, the Communist Party, deflation, Romanée-Conti, and a sweep through every major world religion, all of which teach people to do good except - and he wanted this on the record - "that shameless Li Hongzhi from Falun Gong, that's the exception" 🤣 (he's right though!)
At one point he holds up the luggage and declares to the camera: "the price doesn't matter, what matters is how it feels." This after two hours of bargaining across three shops 🤣
He also, hilariously, after the deal was already done at 760 RMB, casually tried to talk the price down to 690 - mid-monologue, without breaking stride 🤣
Anyhow, long story short, he really delivered for us: he covered the cost of all 3 luggage, they were better than the ones we'd lost, and he threw in something no amount of money can buy - a front-row seat to the greatest bargaining performance in Xinjiang!
La récente fermeture du consulat d'Israel à Chengdu est décrite dans les médias de masse comme la simple conséquence des positions de la Chine sur la question palestinienne et particulièrement le génocide en cours à Gaza, ainsi que sur l'agression israélo-américaine sur l'Iran.
Le consul israélien s'est fendu d'un message enthousiaste sur l'amitié avec la Chine, comme s'il s'agissait d'une fermeture temporaire pour rénovations.
Ce que l'article se garde bien de relater est la récente affaire d'espionnage par une société israélienne à Chengdu, mise en échec à la dernière minute par les autorités chinoises alors qu'elle était sur le point de réussir.
Relatée dans les médias et médias sociaux chinois, cette affaire avait évidemment été totalement occultée dans les médias occidentaux.
Dans les grandes lignes, en 2023, l’ambassade d’Israël en Chine a joué le rôle d’intermédiaire entre une société spécialisée dans les données, basée à Tel-Aviv, et une entreprise technologique de Chengdu, sous prétexte de construire conjointement un « centre de traitement des données » destiné à optimiser la circulation urbaine. Cependant, au cours des discussions, il est apparu que la demande de bande passante dédiée formulée par cette société dépassait largement les besoins commerciaux, et que ses protocoles de chiffrement ressemblaient fortement au « SIGINT », un système propriétaire du Mossad.
Le MSS (Ministère de la Sécirité de l'État chinois) est intervenu, et une enquête plus approfondie a révélé que le capital de l’entreprise était lié à un fonds du ministère israélien de la Défense, et que ses « ingénieurs » présentaient des caractéristiques correspondant à la formation des agents du Mossad.
Ce soi-disant « projet européen de synchronisation des données de R&D » était en réalité un plan visant à détourner le trafic de communications critiques dans le sud-ouest de la Chine.
Lorsque le Bureau de la sécurité nationale de Chengdu et le ministère de l'Industrie et des Technologies de l'information ont mené conjointement une enquête approfondie, ils ont découvert que ce centre de surveillance, dissimulé dans un immeuble commercial, avait déjà aménagé, dans son niveau souterrain isolé, une salle blindée contre les ondes électromagnétiques ainsi que des équipements permettant d'accéder à un réseau de surveillance mondial en « nid d'abeille ».
Le récit complet en anglais de cette affaire (et quelques autres affaires tout aussi graves d'espionage israélien sur le territoire chinois) est ici : https://t.co/URFZa9yiOO
Les médias occidentaux ne se contentent pas du mensonge pour façonner ce qu'ils vendent comme de l'information : exagération, omissions et information tronquée sont souvent plus efficaces pour tromper leur auditoire.
Un geste révélateur du secret qui plane autour du groupe Bilderberg : la cheffe du MI6 surprise par la caméra de l’un des trois journalistes indépendants ayant campé devant l’hôtel.
Aucun média mainstream ne s’est déplacé pour couvrir une réunion rassemblant chefs de services secrets, PDG de multinationales, responsables politiques et directeurs de médias. Ni @BFMTV, ni @CNEWS, ni @LCI n’ont envoyé d’équipes ou de reporters sur place pour l’événement. C'est un clan.
Narendra Modi is asking people to switch on their mobile flashlights at 1 PM in the afternoon in scorching heat and sunlight during an Airport inauguration 😭😭😭
Elect an Anpadh, expect a circus
Heartbreaking reality. Tucker Carlson reveals that under the cover of the US funded Iran war, Israel is systematically destroying ancient Christian villages in Southern Lebanon. They are openly seizing Lebanese territory and bulldozing homes while the world stays silent.
Trump and Israel dropped bombs on another elementary school today — this time in Shiraz, Iran.
Not a military base.
A school.
More than 69 schools have now been deliberately targeted by the US and Israel across Iran.
This isn’t “freedom.”
It’s terrorism.
Went to the grocery store this morning
Bread, milk, eggs
$47.63
The screen asked if I'd like to round up to support a children's hospital
I pressed no
The cashier looked at me
The woman behind me looked at me
My wife looked at the ceiling
Again
This company made $14 billion last year
They can round up
Went to get gas after
The pump asked if I'd like to add $1 to support veterans
I support veterans
I pressed no
A $200 billion oil company asking me to fund their charity while I'm paying $3.89 a gallon
That's not philanthropy
That's outsourcing
Drove through for lunch
Taco Bell
The screen said "round up for education?"
A fast food company asking me to fund scholarships while paying their employees $11 an hour
I pressed no
My wife said "you know you're arguing with screens today"
She was right
But the screens started it
Went to the pharmacy
Picked up a prescription
$340 after insurance
The screen asked if I'd like to donate $1 to help families in need
I just paid $340 for a medication that costs $4 to manufacture
And now you want a dollar
I pressed no
The pharmacist said "it's just a dollar"
I said "it's never just a dollar"
She didn't respond
Got home
My wife said "you said no to a children's hospital, veterans, education, and families in need today"
I said "no. I said no to four corporations who want me to fund their goodwill so they can put it in their annual report"
She was quiet
Then she said "you're not wrong"
I said "I know"
She said "but you're still going to look like a monster"
I said "I'd rather look like a monster than quietly fund a billion-dollar company's PR strategy at the register"
She didn't disagree
But she didn't look at me either
Plz fix. Thx.
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That was my biggest takeaway from the Epstein files and I tweeted about it.
He wasn’t blackmailing anyone.
It was the Rothschilds who introduced him to everyone. If they sit at the apex of the pyramid, how did they know him when he was nobody?
And if being the friend of Presidents, Princes, and Royals wasn’t enough , a Duchess offered him her own daughters. Bannon called him ‘God.’ Elon begged to party with him. Bill Gates chose Epstein over his marriage. RFK Jr’s wife took her own life over his Epstein-connected affairs.
He was the one calling the shots.
These men didn’t report to Epstein out of fear.
They reported to him with reverence. With worship.
And then, in the Bannon interview. Bannon looked him in the eye and asked him ‘Are you the devil?’ Why would you ask that of your own friend without an ounce of levity? Because you’ve been told things and you’ve need confirmation but the interview was the only place that allowed you the excuse to ask.
Then the raping, torturing and eating of babies?
How does someone entice you into torturing and eating a child?
Because you were offered wealth, fame and things we can’t conceive of. And like Epstein stated in the very Bannon interview “There is nothing people won’t do for money, even if you tell them it’s from the devil himself, they’ll still take it.”
Tucker Carlson exposes Pete Hegseth as a Zionist shill.
“I had no idea he had such evolved and specific and apparently very informed opinions on rebuilding the third temple. This is not something they teach you about in Sunday school.”
“That’s the Secretary of War right now.”
Zionists are having a meltdown about what I said yesterday so let me reiterate.
Do NOT sign up for or continue to fight for the U.S military. This war is on behalf of satanic pedophiles.
Find the legal means to exit the military.
Do not fight for child rapists.
“her first interaction with DONALD TRUMP when she was approximately 13 to 15 years old”
“TRUMP struck her after she bit him on the penis”
"pulled [her] hair and punched [her] on the side of [her] head."
Release all the Epstein files.