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Oct 16 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Two foreign guys walk into a barber shop in Xinjiang…
The future of the former “Western Regions”: an energy-rich, multi-cultural, multi-religious, geostrategic New Silk Road hub of “moderately prosperous” China.
Pepe Escobar and from Strategic Culture
YUTIAN, ON THE SOUTHERN SILK ROAD – We are on the road in southern Xinjiang, after…
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Oct 16 2025 
Everything, the world, is now moving to China and Russia
Following is an edited conversation with some Chinese in our Writer’s Group. What it shows is that a new dispensation is now flowing across us and our world. It is a dispensation that is not made up with hatred, and…
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Oct 16 2025 
Slices of Life, #13
What matters is Thầy Thím’s perseverance against tyranny and misfortune.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Holy Water Puddles — Oct 11, 2025.
I’m typing my first words at 6:03PM. Yesterday, I ate beef wrapped in piper lolot leaves dipped in…
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Oct 16 2025 
Exclusive: Honest talk with British scholar Martin Jacques
The 2nd World Conference on China Studies is now unfolding in Shanghai. In the new series Global Scholars on China Studies, British scholar in international relations and politics, Martin Jacques, shared with us his views on why the West keeps…
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Oct 16 2025 
FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Kommersant and my notes
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Kommersant, Moscow, October 15, 2025
The Alaska process is ‘not finished’ – Lavrov
[Note: We can title this the Day that Mr Lavrov let a cat out of a bag – but only partially. I’ve bolded…
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Oct 16 2025 
George Galloway: Moats
The Middle East stands on a knife edge. Ceasefire talks hang by a thread, Gaza mourns its dead, and Israel continues its attacks despite growing international pressure. Meanwhile, Trump eyes a new deal, Europe faces political unrest, and global markets tremble.…
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Oct 15 2025 
Top Venture Capitalists tour China, declare Western energy firms “uninvestable” – they cannot compete
Inside China Business – Kevin Walmsly
Top VC’s from Western firms and investment banks recently toured Chinese companies in the clean energy industry. After just days, they concluded that China’s advances across the sector make competition impossible, and are pulling funds…
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Oct 15 2025 
Andrey DENISOV: “Historical Truth Should Not Give Way to Opportunistic Interpretations”
Interview by Yulia NOVITSKAYA, writer and correspondent for “New Eastern Outlook”
In an interview with Senator and First Deputy Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, Andrey DENISOV, we spoke about why the world order, created following the Second…
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Oct 15 2025 
China does not fight yes? Are you sure? They just wacked four crime syndicates and cleaned up in Myanmar
China’s MPS deals devastating blows to four major criminal clans in northern Myanmar
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Oct 15 2025 
Indian Diplomacy: The New Era of BRICS
Discussion between foreign affairs expert, Dr. Sreeram Chaulia, and the founder of the BRICS Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr. Mihaela Papa, on the changes underway in BRICS and its future evolution.
Topics covered include whether BRICS…
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Oct 14 2025 
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff: The Narrative Battlefield
For us, because this was recorded on the 9th, it is a look back on what happened in this last week. These conflicts (Palestine, Ukraine) are not simply military conflicts. The narrative (a culture war) is what made…
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Oct 14 2025 
Art, Trade and State power at the Heart of the Silk Road
Part II of the celestial Travelogue through the western regions of China.
By Silk Road pilgrim Pepe Escobar on the Strategic Culture Foundation.
DUNHUANG – Across History, the Silk Road – actually a network of roads – is the supreme Highway Star:…
