China

One of the most important points in the new "Trump System" of doing business, is that of the US Dollar, which currently is used by world's central banks as their reserve.  Also, it's used by peasants in many parts of the world including Russia - as an alternative to their domestic currency.  Practically, there isn't a clear alternative to the USD for the time being, with China's economy mostly built on ponzi frauds - but it should be noted by all that it is only a recent phenomenon that the USD is the world's reserve currency, and it can change with the blink of an eye.

Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,

Economic tensions are tipping over into military ones.

Warships have sailed, aircraft have had close encounters, and the rhetoric of Trump’s officials has shifted dramatically from the previous era.

After years of 'close encounters' of the Russian-kind, it appears the US military has found a new nation to fly close to.

Nine months after China demanded US "immediately cease" spying near its borders...

In December, Grant Williams, author of "Things That Make You Go Hmm..." offered the most comprehensive analysis yet of the rise and inevitable fall of the petrodollar (and implicitly US hegemony). In the following presentation, from Mines & Money Conference in London in December 2016, Williams focuses on gold's performance in 2016, the reaction to Donald Trump's election and joins a series of dots that may lead to the end of the petrodollar system and a new place for gold in the global monetary system.

President Donald Trump is secretly preparing to counter a sinister plot by China to occupy California as part of a massive Pearl Harbor type of attack.  With China wiping out a quarter of its world’s largest foreign-currency stockpile over the last 18 months, and taking over top 6 major Hollywood studios, Beijing have already positioned themselves to form an alliance with the Trump-hating liberal elite in order to advance their plans.