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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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The Markets Will Wake Up From The Phoney War
The time between Germany’s invasion of Poland (September 1939) and the invasion of France (May 1940) was called the “phoney war” as France and the UK decided not to seriously attack Germany’s western border. During this time, the French and British were putting together a force to help the Finnish in their war with the… Continue reading
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China’s Fertilizer Restrictions and the Crisis of American Agricultural Imperialism
The recent tightening of Chinese export controls on nitrogen-potassium fertilizer blends—compounded by Beijing’s reiteration of existing restrictions on urea—represents more than a routine trade policy adjustment. It constitutes a significant structural intervention in the global agricultural commodity chain, one that lays bare the precarious foundations of American agricultural imperialism and the sharpening contradictions of the… Continue reading
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Brian Berletic: Iran War – A Gateway to War with China & Russia
Brian Berletic is a former US Marine, author, international relations expert and host of the New Atlas. Berletic discusses how the US war against Iran is a gateway to war with China and Russia. Continue reading
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China’s Global Civilization Initiative
Here is the original text of an article commemorating China’s Global Civilization Initiative on its 3rd Anniversary written for China Diplomacy, in which I harness Marx and Engels’s understanding of historical development to argue that the GCI is central to challenging imperialism. Continue reading
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Donald Trump Just Heralded In the Age of China
The architects of Empire always believe they are exempt from consequence. They launch wars the way they launch business ventures — with bombast, with the confidence of men who have never been held accountable for anything, and with the unshakable conviction that the world will bend to their schedule. They are always wrong. And the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 