One American intelligence expert urged the U.S. to maintain friendly relations with “barbarous, but long-standing allies” in the Middle East lest China fill the vacuum.
Read more...The EU and US are trying to replace Russian gas and push China out of the resource-rich African nation.
Read more...The US seems obsessed with China, yet effectively admits it is behind and unlikely to catch up. And it too quickly dismisses Russia.
Read more...US undersecretary of state Victoria Nuland says to remain calm.
Read more...Biden Administration officials are pleased as punch with their targeting of China’s supposed Achilles heel: dependence on US designed chips.
Read more...The US doth protest too much over China’s napkin doodle peace principles. Why the defensiveness?
Read more...In pressing the Taiwan hot button, is the US misreading China’s capabilities and networks just as it has Russia’s?
Read more...What passes for leadership in the West is becoming more agitated, particulalry over Ukraine.
Read more...Cisco turned from innovation to financialization, weakening the position of the US information-and-communication-technology industry
Read more...A deep dive on the development of the dollar system.
Read more...The so-called Collective West and the rest of the world have a yawning gap in how they view the war in Ukraine.
Read more...Famed short seller Jim Chanos discusses the ever-rising role of fraud in the US financial system and his views of China.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai discuss the dollar regime and its prospects.
Read more...It is possible to infer a few things from recent Ukraine push-and-pulling, but none of it is reassuring.
Read more...So much for the Biden commitment to XI after a 2 1/2 hour phone call to improve relations…..
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