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The Language of Losers: European Protectionism and the Limits of Western Trade Orthodoxy
When a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman stood at a lectern in Beijing on 11 June 2026 and addressed a Bloomberg News correspondent’s question about European supply-chain legislation, he said little that the Foreign Ministry had not said before. The EU’s proposed directive compelling companies to reduce over-dependency on single suppliers was, the spokesman observed, simply… Continue reading
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The Pentagon’s Drone Pivot Signals a Fundamental Shift in U.S. Military Doctrine
As Washington races to scale low-cost drone production after lessons from Ukraine, the United States is confronting a deeper challenge: transforming a defense system built for technological superiority into one capable of sustaining industrial-scale autonomous warfare during an active era of global competition. The U.S. Department of Defense is reportedly expanding efforts to strengthen domestic… Continue reading
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Do Not Underestimate the United States (Editorial Version)
An analytical examination of the US blockade on Iran, the systematic disruption of energy flows to Asia, and the long-term campaign to isolate China The United States Navy’s deployment of FA-18 Super Hornets to conduct strafing attacks against Iranian commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman on 6 and 8 May 2026, three vessels targeted,… Continue reading
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Do Not Underestimate the United States (Long Version)
Why the United States Seeks Control of Supply Routes Rather Than Conventional Victory American power has repeatedly been misread during prolonged geopolitical confrontations because commentators continue measuring strategic success through the narrow lens of immediate battlefield outcomes rather than through cumulative institutional, economic, and infrastructural transformation across decades. Independent geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic argued during… Continue reading
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China Rising, America in Decline?
A comparison of how the United States and China structure the relationship between capital and the state I found the video to be quite interesting and a great addition to the theme of today’s article. This is widely circulated Chinese economist policy commentator Eric X. Li (Li Shijun) interview commentary on China-US political economy, one… Continue reading
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Trump’s Beijing Delegation Exposed the Real Structure of American Power [Extended Version]
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The Beijing visit exposed how transnational corporations, financial institutions, and technology monopolies now operate openly as the permanent power structure beneath American electoral politics. Donald Trump arrived in Beijing flanked by the commanding layer of American corporate and financial power because the visit exposed something Washington normally prefers hidden behind electoral theatre: transnational capital, technology… Continue reading
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DeepSeek and the End of American AI Cost Dominance
How DeepSeek exposed the economic weakness inside high-cost American artificial intelligence systems DeepSeek released a lower-cost artificial intelligence model that approaches the performance range of leading American systems while operating at a fraction of the reported price. Reported token pricing places DeepSeek near $3.48 per million output tokens, while comparable frontier systems from OpenAI and… Continue reading
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The Cost of Containing China to Maintain Primacy
After failed tariff policy and strategic miscalculation in Iran, Western strategy has shifted toward energy control and expanded conflict, seeking to defend the dollar system through measures that risk sustained global economic disruption in efforts to contain China Western strategy toward China has entered a compressed time horizon shaped by the perception among policy planners… Continue reading
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