America’s financial war strategy
A 2015 paper by Major-General Qiao Liang says the US’s renewed desire to escalate military tensions is a front for America’s continual financial war using the ‘pump and dump' cycle. Trump now realises the only way his presidency can prosper is by to encourage capital flight into America from abroad by this means, and have the debt limit raised to accommodate it. Awareness of this thesis, and China's moves to a gold based commodities exchange, is likely to undermine the US economic strategy. America must be careful not to bring forth the date of her own demise by attacking North Korea, Syria, or Iran.