China
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Iran war effect marks the resetting of world geo-politics
Beijing can fund itself cheaply and almost indefinitely – and thus can outlast the U.S. grand strategy to contain China. Continue reading
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Brian Berletic: The New Great Game – War Against Iran, Russia & China
Brian Berletic is a former US Marine, author, international relations expert and host of the New Atlas. Berletic discusses how the US economic war and military war against Iran, Russia and China are connected in a greater effort to restore global dominance. Continue reading
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A tale of two visits and a workable vision for humanity
Thankfully, a path for peace and development is defined and workable. The challenge is for the world to take it, and in particular, for the people of the Western hegemonic nations to demand it. Continue reading
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Putin’s Beijing Stopover and the Alliance Trump Couldn’t Crack
The back-to-back summits in Beijing revealed not only China’s growing diplomatic confidence but also the emergence of a deeper Sino-Russian axis that increasingly challenges the foundations of the US-led global order. Continue reading
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Putin in China: The New U.S.–Russia–China Equation| Pepe Escobar
Has Putin finally given up on the illusion of a grand deal with the United States after this visit to China? Continue reading
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Strategic Stability or Strategic Pause: The Trump–Xi Summit and the Fracturing of the American Century
Washington arrived in Beijing carrying sanctions, aircraft carriers, and the exhausted myths of neoliberal supremacy, while Silicon Valley and Wall Street arrived carrying spreadsheets, supply-chain dependencies, and demands for access to the very industrial system the empire now seeks to contain. Beneath the summit’s choreography unfolded a deeper crisis of hyper-imperial decline, where deindustrialization, financialization,… Continue reading
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Iran LOCKED & LOADED on US Navy, Trump UTTERLY HUMILIATED by China | Ben Norton
Thursday, 14 May 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong it’s a late show because we are reporting on the Trump-Xi summit as it happens, as well as the latest geopolitical developments with Ben Norton who joins from China. See you tonight! Continue reading
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The Emperor has no clothes and no cards
SHANGHAI – China’s powerhouse moves on like a speed-breaking EV. The atmosphere is electric. At a business dinner in a landmark Cantonese restaurant, Trump’s visit to China at least propels the conversation towards something more tangible: the conflicting paths for future generations from the West down to the East. Continue reading
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Empire at the Table: Trump, Xi, and the Crisis of Unipolar Power
France 24 frames the Beijing summit as a poker match between rival strongmen, masking the deeper structures of imperial crisis, technological warfare, and geopolitical coercion beneath the spectacle. Beneath the summit theater lies a dense architecture of sanctions, military encirclement, semiconductor conflict, rare earth dependency, and unresolved sovereignty struggles stretching from Taiwan to the Strait… Continue reading
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Trump goes to Beijing as Washington faces a changed world
Trump and Xi at a U.S.-China business exchange in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. Trump is returning to China with another delegation of top U.S. corporate executives as Washington seeks deals, leverage and help managing crises of its own making. Continue reading
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China’s Warning and Europe’s Energy Vulnerability: The Hidden Cost of EU Sanctions
The European Union’s adoption of its 20th sanctions package against Russia on 23 April 2026 has triggered one of the sharpest responses from Beijing in recent years. Continue reading
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U.S. DESPERATE TO STRANGLE CHINA WITH IRAN BLOCKADE | Brian Berletic
Report say that while President Trump weighs options for bombing Iran or attempting a ground invasion, he is committed to continuing the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports. But it’s not just about hurting Iran.. it’s also about attempting to strangle China. Continue reading
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KJ NOH – FROM IRAN TO JAPAN – DYSFUNCTIONAL US EMPIRE PUSHES FOR WAR AGAINST CHINA
Thursday, 30 April 2026 — Garland Nixon Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: The U.S. War on Eurasian Multipolarity
Friday, 25 April 2026 — Glen Diesen Continue reading
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US Using Israel to Distract Away from World War 3: Blockade on Iran is an Act of War on China
As predicted a month ago, the US Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed to the Middle East is now imposing a blockade on Iranian oil to China; Continue reading
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Iran & China Just HIT US Naval Blockade So Hard, Trump in PANIC | Larry Johnson
We discuss the latest developments in the Iran war and how Iran and China have hit back against Trump’s Naval blockade. Continue reading
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A Primer on the Petrodollar and the War on Iran: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2026)
The illegal US-Israeli war on Iran is exposing the Oil-Dollar-Wall Street complex that binds oil, financial markets, and dollar power, with consequences that reach far beyond the region. Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: China Just HUMILIATED Trump’s Blockade Plan – Iran Takes FULL Control of Hormuz
Tuesday, 14 April 2026 — Dialogue Works Continue reading
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China in a Post-Hegemonic Era: Testing the Limits of Diplomatic Power
China’s call for Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon and its proposal for a multilateral peace initiative signal more than a diplomatic intervention. They reflect Beijing’s gradual emergence as a geopolitical actor seeking to shape conflict management in a context of declining hegemonic coordination and increasing fragmentation of the international order. Continue reading
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US War on Iran & the Wider Dirty War on China: US/Ukrainian Mercenaries In Myanmar
Sunday, 22 March 2026 — The New Atlas While the US attack on Iran throttles energy production and exports to China, following the cutting of energy exports from Venezuela to China in a war earlier this year, and years of attacking Russian energy production via Ukraine, US-backed militants in Myanmar are attacking pipelines leading directly… Continue reading
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