🇨🇳🇨🇳📆📝 — Today, the Fourth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the ruling Party of the the Chinese Regime - the People's Republic of China - is scheduled to start and take place in Beijing lasting from October 20 to 23, 2025.
📝 This four-day meeting, which begins today, represents an annual gathering of the party's Central Committee to deliberate on major policy directions.
The plenum is expected to prioritize economic planning and policy formulation, marking a shift from traditional Fourth Plenums (which often address party governance) toward addressing what the Chinese leadership considers as pressing challenges. Primary topics include:
This will outline China's economic and social development blueprint, emphasizing five core areas:
🤑 Chinese Economic status, as China face deflation and slower growth
🪖 Chinese National security, specially regarding the Taiwan Issue
🤖 Chinese technological innovations, as China and USA embrace a trade war over the Rare Earth trade
🧑🎓 Education/talent development for "new quality productive forces" (reminder, China is dealing with a double front with the lack of jobs for students entering the job market and, above all, the problem of the Tang ping [literally "lying flat"] movement)
💸 Major improvements in livelihoods of Chinese people as China faces deflation
One of the key points of the Fourth Plenum is that it will pave ground for the Formulation of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) of People's Republic of China:
➡️ This will outline China's economic and social development blueprint, emphasizing five aforementioned core areas.
📝 The plan builds on prior five-year strategies by stressing technological self-reliance, domestic innovation (specially on the question of semiconductors, a key issue for Chinese economy now) and the "dual circulation" model to balance internal demand with global engagement.
🚫 The meeting could involve high-level reshuffles in the CCP Central Politburo, Central Military Commission, and other bodies, including filling vacancies from recent purges (as Example of recent purges in the military, following removals of figures like Xi Jinping Loyalists, including PLA Admiral Miao Hua) and confirming retirements or promotions.
🔥 In worst case scenario for Xi Jinping faction (Fujian clique/New Zhijiang Army), these moves would signal preparations for the final years of Xi Jinping's Rule and potential transitions ahead of 2027
🛢📈 — Reuters reports that oil is approaching $100 per barrel following the latest exchange of attacks between Americans and Iranians on oil tankers.
▶️The price of Brent crude has risen to $97.07 per barrel, while American WTI crude has risen to $92.28. In the past week, Brent has risen by 7.8%, while WTI has risen by nearly 10%.
▶️On Saturday, U.S. forces attacked three Iranian oil tankers, one of which was stationed near the island of Kharg, a key center for Iranian oil exports. In response, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced attacks on three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and three more U.S. ships.
▶️In this context, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has sharply declined. Over the past 10 days, an average of only 10 cargo ships have transited the strait per day – the lowest level since May.
The WHO now states on its website:
Vaccination against COVID-19 can trigger multiple sclerosis through cross-reactive CD4+-T cells that recognize the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and myelin peptides.
In other words: Your own immune system destroys the nerve pathways and then attacks your brain and spinal cord.