US Arming Asia

Arming Asia: Empire, Boogeymen and Defense Contractors 

January 4, 2013 (RT - Corbett Report)

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For more information on the US "pivot" toward Asia, see the following:

Supranational ASEAN is Super Folly for Southeast Asia 
Hillary Clinton and the New American (Pacific) Century

3 Stops on America's Asian Tour of Shame

America's new Asian allies: Dictator-for-life Hun Sen of Cambodia, Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi and her genocidal "Saffron monks," and the despotic hereditary Shinawatra regime of Thailand.

November 19, 2012 (AltThaiNews) - US President Barack Obama is embarking on what the Western media is calling a "historic trip." In reality he is coddling dictators and human rights abusers of the highest caliber, even while waging proxy-war against Syria based on alleged "human rights" concerns.

1. Thailand: President Obama and US Secretary Hillary Clinton first arrived in Bangkok, Thailand in efforts to legitimize and prop up politically, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of deposed despot Thaksin Shinawatra, who is using her to run the country by proxy as he evades a 2 year jail sentence and 2 arrest warrants.

Image: "The Thai Gov'ts War on Drugs: Dead Wrong. Stop the Murder of Thai Drug Users." During Thaksin Shinwatra's 2003 "War on Drugs" it wasn't only drug users who were brutally, extra-judicially murdered in the streets, but over 50% of the 2,800 killed during the course of 3 months, were completely innocent, involved in no way with either drug use or trade. This atrocity has been overlooked as he and now his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra have proven their utility to advancing the interests of Wall Street and London.

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Hong Kong First to Feel the Force of QE Tsunami

Thanong Khanthong
The Nation
October 30, 2012

The Hong Kong dollar is feeling the heat of quantitative easing. Easy money created out of thin air at an almost zero-per-cent cost by the US Federal Reserve is flowing into the emerging markets for speculative attacks. The Hong Kong dollar has become a distinct target. In a proxy war launched by the US Fed at the height of the US presidential campaign, the speculators appear to be circling Hong Kong's currency board system to test the water. We don't know yet whether the speculators would like to tear apart Hong Kong's currency board in a repeat of the 1997 episode when they attacked Thailand's fixed-exchange-rate system with the aim of ripping it apart. Don't forget that Hong Kong is the window to China, where the yuan is the ultimate target in this galactic currency war launched in parallel with the geopolitical confrontation between the US and China. In a series of defensive moves, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has intervened in the foreign exchange markets several times over the past week to protect the integrity of its currency board system. It has spent US$1.85 billion since Saturday to fend off the speculative attacks on the currency board by buying up the US dollar with its printed Hong Kong dollar. This is aimed at preventing the HK dollar from appreciating and breaking beyond the very narrow range within which it is allowed to move against the US dollar in a particular trading day.