The Global Financial Tsunami End Game: The Petro-Dollar Regime is Finished? | Global Research

The Global Financial Tsunami End Game: The Petro-Dollar Regime is Finished? | Global Research

Prominent Malaysian lawyer and author Matthias Chang

A few weeks ago, I had a private high-level discussion with some
experts in geopolitics, economics and global finance and I had only one
objective for participating in the discussion – to find out what was not
said and or avoided in the discussion by the participants.

I learned early in my political career as a student anti-war
activist that more can be learned from anyone and in any situation by
what has not been said and avoided than from all the hours of lengthy
dialogue. In most cases, I already knew the positions of the
participants on the subject matter of the discussion from their
writings, interviews, press statements, their educational backgrounds
and their careers. Usually anything that is being said in a discussion
reflects the latest position on the participant’s previously declared
stance on the subject matter.

And quite often, what has been revealed through discussions may
not necessarily reflect the entirety of the participant’s stance. The
difficulty is to be conscious of what the participant has not said and
detect what are his reservations and why the reluctance to disclose his
thoughts on the matter. In the day-long discussions, I had only
intervened twice and I took no more than ten minutes at the most to
elicit the reaction that I had anticipated.