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Andy Lees On China Coup Rumors
Earlier this morning, there have been some completely unfounded speculation of a Chinese coup. And this is all. To get some additional color, we go to Chinese macro expert Andy Lees, who incidentally has have left the churn factory known as UBS, and is now at AML Macro Ideas. Here is his take.
I am an hour and a half behind the market, but there has been some chatter of a coup in China. An article on the web says "Over the night of March 19th and early morning of March 20th, Beijing local time, a message about a large number of military police showing up in Beijing spread widely across microblogs in mainland China. The key figures in the action are said to be Hu Jianto, the head of the CCP, Wen Jiabao, the premier; Zhou Yongkjang who has control of the People's Republic of China's police forces; and Bo Xilai who was dismissed from his post as the head of Chongqing City Communist Party on March 15th by Wen Jiabao after a scandal involving Bo's former police chief". The article does not really say anything beyond that. Some people have dismissed the troops as security for a North Korean delegation. It could also be to head off any demonstrations against the fuel price hikes.
A second article says that around New Year's day 2 airforce officers were arrested on suspicion of plotting a coup, and a nuclear submarine on potrol was ordered back to port because they were thought to have links with the plotters.
There may be absolutely no truth in any of this, but if there is the possible consequences could be enormous for the global economy, for Chinese economic policy response - (remember the cheques that Saudi Arabia wrote to buy calm in the Arab Spring) - and for market volatility generally.
So there you have it: in short - it may be too early to discount anything, especially in the aftermath of the Bo Xilai party coup. One thing is certain, do not expect to find any media confirmation or validation of these rumors.
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Crap.....thought it was just a rumor.
wait china? who? http://hedge.ly/gFWVSm
Hah! At least it is a rumor fit for March 20th, Spring Equinox.
And if this is just the rumor mill, what does the rest of the day portend?
Awesome. More cracks in the Dyke!
Who? Tsing-Tao!
ori
/if-i-ever-saw-a-sign/
Add-on : I'm clearly getting soft. Of course, both China AND Russia will face all kinds of trouble, because they will not let NATOUSA bomb Syria to democracy.
well if true that is the largest black swan event to hit the earth yet... the real economic data comes out of china
So you think your going to protect Iran, China?
Iranian oil bourse starts today not priced in USD's.
SWIFT action happens 3 days earlier. When does the the Enterprise arrive? The russians show up in Syria, 3 aircraft carriers head to the region, Iran gets cut off from the international banking community, Iran begins to sell oil not priced in FRNs...get ready, cause it's coming.
If there is a coup anywhere, it might be where the government has covered up 60 + years of alien contacts, Ex Canadian Defense Minister admits the existence of aliens and UFO's:
http://poleshift.ning.com/forum/topics/breaking-the-cover-ups-disclosure-is-welcoming
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2012/03/rumors-of-military-coup-in-...
"Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms..." - Anatoliy Golitsyn's Memorandum to the CIA: FEBRUARY 1993 - The Importance Of The Strategic Factor In Assessing Developments In Russian And Communist China
LOL... This is America's wet dream... to engage them militarily, instead of, you know, becoming more productive and competing that way.
You don't really believe that, do you? Because it's a pretty absurd scenario to posit...
One doesn't try to militarily engage a country who's army is an appreciable fraction of the entire US population. And nuclear weapons are out of the question...
A Naval encounter would be one thing, perhaps, but there's no way the US is going to get into a shooting war with the Chinese.
With all due respect...
You must be forgetting a few "conflicts" where we did engage the Chinese.
A coup in China at this point would fit my global bipolar disorder hypothesis.
Let's hope this is just a bogus rumor, however I believe ultimately Jeff Nyquist's warnings will prove true about the stupidity of dealings with China: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=621kb9seuf8
Anytime the Communists want now they can pull the rug out from under global Capitalism and this has been the strategy all along.
It IS just a rumor.
If there's an 'Official Denial' you can go ahead and freak right the fcuk out.
Operation: "We've got it under control"
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Yes, I received a 1/2 dozen frantic e-mails from friends in China last night seeking offshore news....
And if you think that the media here would run the story with out official sanctions...then read this...If the white house says "no story"...they pull the story
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/why-is-the-story-about-malia-obama-vacationing-in-mexico-disappearing-from-the-web/
I saw the story yesterday on Drudge. Link is dead and gone now. Our news is censored.
Edit: just checked Drudge has it up again with a different link now. Wonder how long until that link is dead.
Agree about media censorship, but not hard to see why the President wouldn't want his daughter's travel plans going viral. 25 secret service agents ain't nothing to the Mexican cartel.
Year of the Drag-on...
Long Soup, that was hilarious! :-)
ori
yeah ori, I'm good for surges of brain dopamine once in a blue moon...I'm no Million Dollar Bonus though. That guy's got mad skills.
If MDB doesn't 'friend' me on ZH chat I'm going to be pissed for weeks...
No Soup Line... I was floored yesterday when my local sports radio station had an ad for SNAP... It was so upbeat... it PITCHED so hard for people to find out if they qualify for SNAP... and there was a local number to call. Who is paying for that ad? 45 million and climbing... and an ad blitz to increase those numbers even further.
krid, now that's recovery.
sure... my 25 minute commute is generating ad revenue so they can keep giving me my distraction. Of course when I consider that my taxes are going towards the spots that are encouraging more people still to go on food stamps... well... that kind of interupts my distraction. I guess I'll have to stop listening to the radio.
Just making sure the bread and circus gets properly distributed to ensure maximum distraction from what the other hand is doing!!!
Bo Xilai was the first thing that came to mind for me.
If there's a coup, you can be sure the US will hit Iran.
Maybe Iran will just surrender.....ok......probably not.
No. You can be sure the US will be hit over Iran.
And the homeland security budget will increase exponentially while citizens rights will decrease in kind (but its for your protection, its for the kids.... Ad Hominem) Think there is a plan in the works?
Oh, and didn't Art Cashin mention a power stuggle last week?
Yes Art gave this to us last week.
No tanks? BOOORRRIIIIIINNGGGG.
There is no way this is true. Most of the powerful Chinese generals are gettting mega rich off control or stakes in Chinese state owned companies.
The current regime ensures their wealth & prosperity will grow.
Also the Epoch Times is very biased against the regime. The paper is a mouth piece , and communication tool of the Falun Gong movement, which has been crushed in China.
as Russian troops land in Syria it would make sense to try and destabilize China from the NATO and UN's perspective to keep them focused internally rather than helping Iran/Syria. Maybe some of those generals just cashed a cheque? Maybe its not true but don't you get the sense the lid is blowing off and as such how can you confirm or deny?
just feels like something totally not good is coming, can't even identify from where
Uhmm.. If NATO & the US were exposed in coordinating a coup there would be huge blowback. And I don't believe Obama, or Merkel are foolish enough to make such a move, given all the other issues on the table.
The easiest explanation arises from denying the premise of the Epoch Times article, which Andy Lee references, as hearsay, and a wish fulfillment echo chamber.
What's interesting is how the financial market reacts to a slowdown in China, and the probability of the commodity bubble popping.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-20/china-steel-growth-has-flattene...
TBH, I bet any coup that came out of China would be grassroots, and probably a suprise to Western Governments, who have their minds onto other things.
Remember, there is a subversive internet culture in China (which Nouriel alluded to in his tweets like it was news; sht has been a moonlanding for 4+ years). Television streaming, Twitter, even BitTorrents to an extent.....all improved under Chinese innovation spurred on by an oppressive government when it comes to speech and content rights.
Hell, TVAnts was invented just so Chinese people could watch Yao Ming 4 times a week (instead of the 1 game/week State TV would show them).
Who is going to expose them? The same people looking into Building 7 or the false narratives provided for our military excursions? I used to think the way you do... I used to hide behind "Occam's Razor" for all sorts of things. It doesn't mean that every rumor has to be true... but nothing is more absurd than "fire brought down building 7".
DormRoom
There is no way this is true. Most of the powerful Chinese generals are gettting mega rich off control or stakes in Chinese state owned companies.
The current regime ensures their wealth & prosperity will grow.
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Until you reach a point where the generals are powerful and bold enough to decide I will take power instead waiting for the beaurocrats give it to me. All I need is a little media and general population support.
Don't discount human nature.
Wealth and power breed Greed.
You can never get enough once you get a taste.
I am sure some of those Generals feel they are not getting their proper share of the pie.
Conceived of and underwritten by Wall St Banks?
was thinking that exactly
just a distraction for the silver smackdown today
Let them run it down! I've got a trigger finger that goes at 28$!!
SELL IT CHEAP!!
TO ME!!!!
I've heard that the Mongols also had a near rumor Coup this morning!!!!
DOW 3000 HERE WE COME!!!
Where there is smoke there is often fire.
Maybe Hu shut down part of the city so a bunch of hookers could get expressed to CCP HQ!
Why bother when you can just go to a barber shop after 10?
I am not sure if many westerners know the meaning of this!
Do you mean soup? I read there is a severe shortage of shark fin soup in Beijing.
WW3 will find a way. No matter how it happens, China will not allow the US to control its flow of Iranian oil. One way or the other, China will go to war over it.
This does not bode well for iStuff; after all, communism and it's cheap labor is a corporate CEO's best friend.
The fuse is burning from Tunisia towards Pyongyingyang ! Onward Christian/Jewish/Free-Asian information revolution ! Communists and Islamo-Fascists beware ! Hitch up your hernia harness and change out you colostomy bag and tighten your seat belt ! Monedas 2012 An Egyptian flea grazing his sector of a camel's scrotum has to make the trek to the camel's eyes to have a drink of tear every 15 minutes ? Sometimes I make up shit....you decide !
Monedas,
You're a funny guy---keep making shit up just to keep the fascists off balance.
Oh, yeah----keep all of these rednecks out of South America---there bringing fear and greed here like the plague
we want to keep the softness---you know, generosity and culture om
Curious question here. What happens to the debt you hold for a country that declares war on your ass?
If you're the Bank of England, you keep collecting the interest payments for the duration of the conflict. We always have before!
In general, though, I think the victor tends to make the rules, in that regard.
You can ask Germany (1938).
The original rumor (Monday evening beijing time) was that Bo Xilai was detained and questioned. I covered the weibo rumor and have a screenshot of it, it is since deleted.
Link: http://investinginchinesestocks.blogspot.com/2012/03/update-bo-xilai-arr...
Someone just pointed out, on another forum, that tomorrow is a 'bookend' date of potential occult significance (if you use the day / month / year format) - 21-3-12. And right on the Spring Equinox, to boot.
Don't really believe in that crap, myself, but it does make ya go 'Hmmm', I suppose.
Chumbawumba pointed out on an earlier thread that the skull and bones number is 3 2 2, ie 3-22. We'll see in a couple days. It's all just speculation until it happens anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones
WB7--Brown, Bro, Harr
will this affect the i-shit coming out of china? dam and appl just hit 600!
Housing prices falling in most markets. Stocks off 20% from recent highs and off 1/3rd since 2007, significant inflation in food and fuel which still accounts for 50% of a normal families' income, unrest and repression in rural areas, political corruption and GDP growth falling to 5%. China is a powder keg that could bloe at anytime.
Never understood the people that expect tje China miraclr to go on uninterrupted for another 20 years.
Debts and War - AFAIK any debts between two nations that go to war are void however they may be resurrected at the end in the form of reparations, it depends who wins
What's worse than a Red Army? A rogue Red Army!
the rouge army is the worst of all.
For all the people based in HK to keep their finger on the pulse of rubber dogpoo manufacturing. None of them actually have a clue what's occurring in China....the brasses of wanchai yes, the politburo no.
Actually, real Hongkies stear clear of Wanchai in favor of Lan Kwai Fong. Wanchai is for expats and SE Asian hotties.
No signs of any China coup in the noodle shop downstairs.
But the events of last week are being covered extensively in the local media and as a China watcher of sorts, I would say the public dressing down of Bo last week caused a great big double take. The contentious local elections in HK are also causing eye brows to raise.
This is typically a yawn but suddenly very interesting.
Let me add that I won't dignify the rumors that former Chongqing City CP Chief Bo Xilai's wife is under arrest for corruption and for having ordered the murders of people who threatened to disclose all the kickbacks and commissions she received on construction projects in Chongqing. Furthermore, it is absurd that this woman, Gu Kailai, a brash lawyer with a taste for money (and who bought her son a brand spanking new Ferrari on her husband's public servant salary) even threatened Chongqing Vice Mayor and former Police Chief Wang Lijun, who subsequently sought political asylum at the US Consulate in Chengdu.
It's all probably just a misunderstanding, which is why all references to it have been removed from the internet.
Brak Schwan, Bitchez
lulzzz well done.
Black Swan
those crazy chinamen... http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/coup-in-beijing-says-chinese-internet-rumor-mill-207993.html
When my father entered the Korean theatre on the shores of the Yalu River, the border between China and Korea, just before the Red Army crossed over the river to engage UN forces.
My father went backwards for his entre tour of duty. On the rare R&R opportunities, his poker mates all had new faces.