South China Sea on a 'Hair Trigger,' Economic Impact Is 'Massive Disruption, Overwhelming Inflation'

Hal Kempfer, CEO of Global Risk Intelligence & Planning (GRIP) and retired marine intelligence officer, says the South China Sea tensions are on a “hair trigger,” adding that this area is America’s biggest financial interest. Kempfer tells Michelle Makori, Lead Anchor and Editor-in-Chief at Kitco News, that if tensions turn into a kinetic conflict, the impact will be massive disruption to the global marketplace and overwhelming inflation.

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[christhis]

A terrible guest, a typical DC warmonger.

[spiritofgoldfish]

How is the South China Sea different to China, than the Caribbean Sea is to the US?

[Amber-qmu]

🙏🙏Only God knows how much grateful i am. After so much struggles I now own a new house and my family is happy once again everything is finally falling into place!

[lydiagrace]

Yes keep.putting tariffs on anything from China will definitely decrease prices of goods and of course increase trade

[matrixist]

Shortages and inflation are causing people to become massively confused. The las 4 years has been primarily Shortage driven price increases, yet The Govts around the world have been making monetary policies to fight non-shortage inflation. The world has become stupider every year.

[stephenc]

Kempfer, it's you again. How much is the State Department paying you for the press tour?

[chdkchristidonny]

Congratulations WW3 IS ON MAINLAND USA, Touché

[arthurpowers]

Amazingly, the U.S A. fails to have even one available aircraft carrier and companion carrier group to defend Taiwan, to defend the Philippines, to defend Japan, Guam, et al. NOT ONE due to overcommittment to the Middle-East and due to the need to address the need to overhaul so many of the carriers making up the U.S. fleet.
Our security folks in the Biden Admin. and Loyd Austen, Defense Secretary are pathetic strategists, so disappointing!!
[Denver, Colorado]

[raylamberton]

Germany fell because it over extended in the war.

[svd]

I wouldn’t use the term “provocation” for China.

[dizzywillow]

This guy thinks that Okinawa is in the SCS? Fail.

[disneytakeshugedix]

Currency 💵 bubbles 🫧 implosion ! Look 👀 at the Japanese 🇯🇵 Yen 💴, the first G7 currency 💵 to collapse ! Sigh 😮‍💨

[undonegun]

wow... l earned absolutely nothing with that .

[Tony-dh]

A rough estimate of the price of oil tanker transport, is $100, 000 per day.

[mattdean]

All the more reason to get TRUMP back in office.

[FlorenceGeorge-qh]

Hit 20k today. I'm really grateful for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started with 14k in June 2024

[FitnessLondon]

China has multiple economic incentives not to attack Taiwan.

[Amite-zgob]

Could somebody answer the question would you sink China’s container ships first or their coal and oil ships?

[RedNeck-xd]

He said 'shortages' a high probability.

[TheContrarianThinker]

I remember watching an interview, on the SCS, by an ex-Whitehouse strategist, who recently got incarcerated, during the initial stages, of the Cervesa sickness, about how a previous Government, to Trump's first term, agreed with China's demand that any US naval vessel switch off all advanced telemetry equipment, when navigating through the SCS. I wonder why...