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The Masterstroke – Iran’s President Went Straight to the Empire’s Scriptwriters

Why meeting the think tanks that predicted Iran’s collapse is an act of intellectual warfare that targets the narrative machinery of American primacy General Article | September 2026 The encounter between Pezeshkian and the think tanks constitutes intellectual warfare rather than conventional diplomacy because it targets the institutions that write the briefing papers, draft the… Continue reading
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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
