Alastair Crooke
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913 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Alastair Crooke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You must be aware that's quite dangerous because you are entering a suicidities point.
Because we have caused inflation and you have caused deflation, this is not going to be a very easy thing.
So you have to manage this.
your but you know your city and point with great terror otherwise you end up in in a worse conflict with with with the west but the chinese don't want to push themselves to the forefront displace the united states and you know the special currency but they could do it you're right
You could do it tomorrow.
For example, when I use WeChat in China, it has 1.4 billion users on that one platform.
1.4 billion.
And you can pay, you can take insurance, you can get a loan, everything you want on that.
They could roll that out so easily.
I mean, the scale is already there.
They could roll it out across Asia tomorrow.
But I don't think they want to do that.
They're not trying to create a crisis that will affect the whole of the trading system of the world because China depends on trade.
And it doesn't want to break the system, but it wants to gently move the system in a different direction.
No.
But people say, well, I don't see anything.
We don't see it in Iraq.
No, because you wouldn't see it.
Because what they have provided is that the Iranians used to use GPS, and the West found it quite easy to disrupt GPS signals when they wanted to, or to spoof them into thinking it was a different location from it.
The Iranians had gone on to the Russian system first of all, but now, at the beginning of this period after the June war, they moved into Beidou, the Chinese digital system, which is linked to their satellite.
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