Global Finance
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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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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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The Great Pandemic Cover-Up
Leaked emails expose how a network of government agencies, global organizations, and pharmaceutical interests prepared for the next outbreak and efforts to silence dissent long before COVID-19. A collection of internal emails from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed years of planning for future pandemics involving governments, foundations, international organizations, and pharmaceutical… Continue reading
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The Great Pandemic Cover-Up
Leaked emails expose how a network of government agencies, global organizations, and pharmaceutical interests prepared for the next outbreak and efforts to silence dissent long before COVID-19. A collection of internal emails from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed years of planning for future pandemics involving governments, foundations, international organizations, and pharmaceutical… Continue reading
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Putin’s Limited War in Ukraine Has Prolonged the Conflict
Military pressure has intensified, yet the Kremlin still avoids full mobilisation and total war methods, leaving Russia trapped between battlefield advantage and political caution Vladimir Putin has chosen to fight in Ukraine without fully fighting a war in the classical sense. Russian operations have been large, destructive, and sustained, yet they have remained constrained by… 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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