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October 06, 2021
As Taiwan War Fears Grow, US Rushes NSA Jake Sullivan to Meet China's Yang Jiechi

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Statement by NSC Spokesperson Emily Horne on Senior Administration Official Trip to Europe
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/10/05/statement-by-nsc-spokesperson-emily-horne-on-senior-administration-official-trip-to-europe/

U.S. envoy Sullivan to meet China's top diplomat amid high tensions
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-envoy-sullivan-meet-chinas-top-diplomat-yang-this-week-scmp-2021-10-05/

Yang, Sullivan eye meeting to 'implement spirit of top leaders' phone conversation'
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202110/1235667.shtml

Taiwan’s Tsai turns to masters for help out of fear of catastrophic consequences: Global Times editorial
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202110/1235658.shtml

The US must avoid war with China over Taiwan at all costs | Daniel L Davis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/05/the-us-must-avoid-war-with-china-over-taiwan-at-all-costs

Biden chooses to keep Trump China tariffs right where they are – Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/10/05/biden-chooses-to-keep-trump-china-tariffs-right-where-they-are/

US-China politics collide over Taiwan airspace – Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/10/06/us-china-politics-collide-over-taiwan-airspace/

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Let's Talks About Some News (Live) - Nov. 6
Join Alexander Mercouris Live Stream Today 4th November 2026 at 14:00 EST, 19:00 London time

The news which is making the headlines is of course the results of the midterms in the United States. I would point out that these were very accurately predicted by Robert Barnes and Rich Baris in a programme we did with them on The Duran which you can see here (

How much actual difference this is all going to make in terms of US foreign policy is another matter. Trump of course is still there, but putting that aside, it looks to me as if all that has happened is that one neocon pro-war party in Congress has replaced another.

As to US domestic policy, here we probably will see significant changes. Trump's economic policy based on tariffs is now almost certainly dead (or so it seems to me) and there may be significant battles over immigration and data centres. My guess is that it won't take very long before Americans sour on the Democrats again. But ultimately all this is a purely internal issue.

Much more important is whether any of ...

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June 17, 2024
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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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