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China Laughs At Bessent’s Oil Sanctions On Iran
Trump’s Failed Mission to China
The Beijing circus is over and Donald Trump’s talks with Xi Jinping produced nothing more than some pleasing photo ops and some performative diplomacy with no substantive accomplishments. There was no final communique at the end of Trump’s two days of meetings with Xi...
Trump In China – Who Has The Upper Hand?
More Wars and Rumors of Wars
President Donald Trump is back from his business trip to China which had a lot of ambiguity over issues like Taiwan without having done either much discernible damage or benefit to American interests. The trip ended with the American participants dropping all the...
Who Can Halt the ‘America First’ Ambition Rolling Across the Globe? – China Can
We now can see more clearly the Trump Administration’s chosen path: In the wake of Davos and Munich, we have some light – both on Trump’s towering ambitions, and the means by which he hopes to achieve them. It may nonetheless be too late. Past policies shackle...
Rules for Thee, Force for Me: America’s Doctrine of Leader-Capture
Here we are watching the rules (for thee but not me) based order perform its favorite magic trick, of turning performative flexing of might into virtue by simply narrating it as law. The United States has kidnapped Venezuela’s sitting president, Nicolás Maduro, along...
US Seizes Tanker Carrying Chinese Oil…Beijing Not Amused
The Geopolitical Imperative Behind US Policy Toward Venezuela
In the intensifying great-power competition of the 21st century, Venezuela has emerged as a pivotal battleground in the Western Hemisphere—a proxy arena where the United States confronts the encroaching ambitions of China and Russia to preserve its historic regional...
New National Security Strategy: A Stunning Departure, Yet Full of Contradictions
This is big. The final U.S. National Security Strategy was just published and the refocus on the Western Hemisphere (i.e. the Americas) is confirmed. The document clearly establishes this as the U.S.'s number one priority, saying that the U.S. will now "assert and...
US Foreign Policy in Contention: Is Trump Allowed to Agree a Deal With China (But Not Russia or Iran)?
US foreign policy, drenched in the hubris that the US won the Cold War militarily (in Afghanistan); won it economically (liberal markets); and culturally too, (Hollywood) — and therefore rightly deserves, as Trump puts it, the “fun” of “running both the country the...
Global Wealth and Power are Pivoting to the East
History’s wheel is turning. China builds, India rises, BRICS surpasses the G7—while America punishes allies and empowers its Enemies. In the West, the year 1492 is remembered for two episodes: Columbus’s arrival in the Americas and the fall of Granada, last stronghold...
‘Here We Go’: Trump Threatens 100% India/China Tariffs As Russia Drones Violate Polish Airspace
Can Trump re-adjust in the post-Tianjin SCO moment? Was the timing of China ‘throwing down the SCO gauntlet’ entirely fortuitous?
The gloves are off. The SCO Summit was a clear demonstration of the reality of power starkly coalescing, on the one hand, and one of power visibly ebbing, on the other. The amazing military parade was the summit counterpart – it spoke loudly: You want to take us on?...
US Hubris-Driven Blunders Transform the Entire Complexion of the Wider War
The big issue emerging from the US’ 22 June strike on Iran – second only to “wither Iran?” – is whether in Trump’s calculus he can “rhetorically impose” the having “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme claim long enough to both restrain Israel from hitting Iran...
‘One Quiet Early Morning in Beijing, the Dollar’s Crown Slipped’
“I believe we must start from the notion of defeat leading to revolution – to grasp the Trump revolution.” “The experience underway in the United States, even if we don’t know exactly what it will be, is revolution. Is it a revolution in the strict sense? Is it a...
China Strikes Back: Where Will Tit-For-Tat Tariffs Lead?
Can Trump Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy?
By the time most of you read this column, we will have a new US President. Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term today at 11:30 AM, Eastern time, and many Americans are hopeful that the disastrous foreign policy of the past four years under Biden...
Our Lying Eyes: New Photo Shows Biden with Hunter’s Business Associates Despite Past Denials
“Lies.” That response was a mantra for President Joe Biden, who denied ever meeting or knowing about his son’s foreign dealings. Despite the pronounced lack of interest by most media outlets in the alleged multimillion dollar influence-peddling scheme, the House and...
Lindsey Graham: Ukraine War ‘All About Money’
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