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China & Russia pledge 'changes not seen in 100 years': Xi & Putin take aim at US dollar hegemony

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China and Russia's Attempt to Challenge the Hegemony of the US Dollar

This is China saying very clearly that Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran are close allies. It's also rather ironic, I should point out, because the major US imperial strategist is Bigna Brzezinski who served as national security advisor under President Jimmy Carter. He was one of the architects of the US proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s which gave birth to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. And this meeting comes just a few weeks after China brokered a historic agreement, normalizing ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia. South Africa recently confirmed that BRICS is trying to develop a new global reserve currency to challenge the hegemony of the US dollar.

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