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Sep 06 2025 
Arnaud Bertrand suggests the US is withdrawing from Asia
Boom! This confirms what I’ve been saying for months: the US is, in fact, withdrawing from Asia. The Pentagon’s latest National Defense Strategy – which draft just landed on the Defense Secretary’s desk – is de-prioritizing “deterring China” in favor of focusing on the US homeland and the Western hemisphere (https://politico.com/news/2025/09/05/pentagon-national-defense-strategy-china-homeland-western-hemisphere-00546310).
This is all the… Continue reading
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Dec 26 2024 
A new China mega dam: 3 times more power than the Three Gorges
China just approved yet another project of an unfathomable scale: a mega dam that will generate 3 times more power than the Three Gorges, enough to meet the annual needs of over 300m people, the equivalent of the entire US population.
https://scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3292267/china-approves-tibet-mega-dam-could-generate-3-times-more-power-three-gorges
The project will cost an insane 1 trillion yuan (US$137 billion) to build and will… Continue reading
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Nov 13 2023 
“Rules-based order” vs “International law”.
Arnaud Bertrand
An interesting observation is that in many ways this war is the “rules-based order” vs “international law”.
We’re seeing a wholesale and unprecedented attack on all institutions meant to preserve international law: the UN (with even a physical destruction of their offices in Gaza, and I’m not even mentioning the 100+ UN workers killed so… Continue reading
