TEHRAN, Oct. 25 (MNA) – Residents of Rasht turned out for the 238th consecutive night of public gatherings in the city’s iconic Shahrdari Square.
Day: October 25, 2026
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🇨🇳 Chinese banks have stopped lending and are piling into government bonds instead.
Loans have shrunk to record lows this year, and Jeffrey Snider traces the slide back to 2008, when China bet everything on being the factory floor for customers who eventually stopped buying:
“It’s no longer just an economic problem in China.
It has become a banking problem in China.”
Banks that won’t lend are telling you exactly how much they trust the economy around them.
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Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇨🇳 🇺🇸 The idea that China would overtake the US economy died back in 2008… most people just never noticed.
Monetary analyst Jeffrey Snider says the mainstream is roughly 15 years late, because the property collapse, the growth plateau and a factory model that hit its ceiling were all sitting in plain sight:
“The idea that China was going to overtake the US died in 2008.”
Anyone still bracing for a Chinese takeover is planning around an economy that stopped growing into that role a long time ago.
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— https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2114208134298296717
🚨🇮🇱 Tuesday may be the most consequential election in Israel’s history, and the 100,000 people in Hostages Square tonight know why: the world has stopped giving Israel the benefit of the doubt
The rally was about an inquiry into Oct. 7 that Netanyahu has blocked for three years, and the voices were bereaved fathers and freed hostages. But the subtext in the square was bigger than one commission.
It was the sense, said plainly by a first-time voter to AFP, that Israel has to change how the world sees it, and that Tuesday is the last clean chance to do that from the inside.
Years of war in Gaza, Lebanon and now Iran have done something no enemy managed: they turned ordinary public opinion in Israel’s closest ally against it.
AIPAC quit endorsing candidates this week because its name costs votes.
A Democrat leading the Michigan Senate race calls Israel a friend who takes your money and starts your fights, and his numbers WENT UP.
The prime minister is campaigning on finishing Iran “together” with a president at 31% whose own voters are done with the war.
Fair or not, that bill doesn’t stop at Israel’s border.
And as unfair as it is… Jews in Paris, London and on American campuses get judged for decisions made in Jerusalem that they had no part in, and they’re the ones who absorb the hostility when Israel’s conduct goes wrong.
The world’s message has been delivered loudly enough: change how you fight in Gaza, change how you treat Lebanon, change the assumption that Washington will always write the check.
A Netanyahu win promises the “job to finish” with Iran and another year of the same verdict from the same crowds abroad, and that verdict falls on Jews who never cast a ballot in Israel.
Tuesday is the day Israelis decide what the rest of the Jewish world has to answer for next.
Source: Times of Israel / AFP
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