economics
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The Price Of Industrial Strategy
How China Built a Global Electric Vehicle Industry Through State Capitalism, and How Washington Answered with Tariff Wall Editorial Analysis | June 2026 (This headline image is the Geely Geome Xingyuan is a compact hatchback that sells for under $10,000) I. The Industrial Reset: China’s EV Strategy from 2009 When China formally identified new energy… Continue reading
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The $23,000 car America cannot buy
How fifteen years of Chinese industrial policy produced an electric vehicle Detroit cannot match and why tariffs may be solving the wrong problem General News Article | June 2026 (The headline image is the Geely Geome Xingyuan is a compact hatchback that sells for under $10,000) In 2023 BYD began selling a small electric hatchback… Continue reading
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The Memorandum of Convenience
Why the US-Iran MOU Represents Another Chapter in a Longstanding Pattern of Strategic Deception The June 2026 Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran has been presented to the world as a diplomatic breakthrough. According to the 14-point text, the agreement commits both parties to the immediate and permanent termination of military operations… Continue reading
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AI Has Lost Public Trust
Why Growing Scepticism Towards Artificial Intelligence Reflects Political Economy Rather Than Fear of Technology Artificial intelligence has rapidly assumed a position once occupied by electrification, railways, telecommunications and the internet as the defining technology of its generation. Governments describe artificial intelligence as essential national infrastructure. Financial markets increasingly value companies according to their AI strategies… Continue reading
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Armenia Regime-Changed Without A Shot Fired
How the 2018 Velvet Revolution Exemplifies the US Strategy of Political Capture of a Sovereign Country The March 1992 leak of the Defense Planning Guidance to the New York Times revealed a strategic vision that would shape American foreign policy for three decades. The document, prepared by Paul Wolfowitz’s policy office, asserted that the United… Continue reading
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The Colour Revolution Playbook
How the US Captures Nations Without Firing a Shot to Disrupt Multipolarism, Extend Russia, Contain Iran and China The February 1992 draft of the Defense Planning Guidance, leaked to the New York Times and published on March 8, 1992, articulated a strategic vision that has shaped American foreign policy for three decades. The document, prepared… Continue reading
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China Defends Export Controls as Japan Criticizes Rare Earth Restrictions
Beijing argues its measures are a restrained response to Japan’s growing military role and its position on Taiwan, while Tokyo says the restrictions are harming its economy. China has banned the export of all dual-use items to Japanese military users and for Japan’s military use. According to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the goal is… Continue reading
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Is South Africa Witnessing a Colour Revolution?
Analysing South Africa’s March and March movement through the lens of regime change doctrine South Africa occupies a unique position in the global order. It is the only country in the BRICS+ world where the colonial management class never actually left. Political power was transferred in 1994, but the land, the mines, the banks, the… Continue reading
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The Extension of Empire – Israel as America’s Forward Military Arm
How US logistical support, intelligence sharing, and operational integration make Israeli military action inseparable from American strategic objectives Introduction: The Question of Agency Among the most persistent fictions in contemporary geopolitical commentary is the proposition that Israel acts as an independent military power, capable of initiating and sustaining major military operations without American approval or… Continue reading
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Kenya at the Centre: How Mineral Logistics, Health Security, and Defence Diplomacy Are Reshaping East African Alignment
Reading Nairobi’s Simultaneous Bets on Washington, Paris, the Gulf, and Khartoum’s Rivals Against the Wider Contest for Africa’s Resources and Routes Editorial Analysis | June 2026 I. THE CORRIDOR CONTEST: TWO RAILWAYS, ONE COPPERBELT The clearest material stake in East and Central Africa’s near future runs along two competing railway corridors converging on the same… Continue reading
