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Oct 26 2025 
Malaysia: 47th ASEAN Summit kicks off
Theme: “Inclusivity and Sustainability.”
Established in 1967, the grouping includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Timor-Leste. Timor-Leste is the youngest member and just joined, as well as being the youngest country in the region. It is small with a population of 1.34 million at the 2022… Continue reading
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Aug 31 2025 
Last Chinese warning
… the Tianjin SCO summit is a collective demarche by Eurasia, which has united against the United States, the European Union, and their regional allies…
By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
The meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization states that opened in Tianjin today is undoubtedly a diplomatic triumph for China. This was clearly intended by the… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
What can the US do against China?
Preparing for aggression and “just in case” exercises.
By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
Trump found himself in a difficult situation. He failed to convince Russia to sign a peace treaty (or rather, a ceasefire) with Ukraine on American terms.
As far as I can tell, Trump’s confidence that Moscow would quickly accept his proposal was based on… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
Flush, Of Course, Without One Glance Backward
… When an Asian says the American dream is dead, you know we are in deep trouble.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Six months into the Golden Age of America, manufacturing jobs are down, inflation and unemployment are up, despite fudged numbers, foreign tourists have mostly stayed away, and there are no… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
Sam Landing Jab Means Chinese Troops in Southeast Asia
Sweating and farting bodies are comforted and reassured by metallic extensions. Admiring a car or watch, we imagine ourselves to be just as clean and immortal.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
In 2018, a Vietnamese in Phnom Penh told me about a miraculous rescue. After being knocked over by a car, he… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2025 
Missiles Fly, Missives Tossed in Mud
… Hun Sen must be disappointed, at least, at the Middle Kingdom’s relative silence through all this, but who knows what Xi Jinping is up to. Sun Tzu’s ghost must be giving Xi an endless stream of great advices.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Consider this astounding statement, “She is not only… Continue reading
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Jul 29 2025 
Peace Breaks
With that, everything was solved, at least this morning in this drowsy city by the ocean, where corpses are no longer washed back onto shores.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
We’ll see if this ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand holds. If I hadn’t just returned from Jordan, I would take a bus… Continue reading
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Jul 28 2025 
Why Thailand and Cambodia Are at War in the Heart of ASEAN
what toxic confluence of factors has crystallized into a hot war in the heart of Southeast Asia? It starts with a family feud – involving the Thai Shinawatra and the Cambodian Hun Sen clans
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Fog of war rules. A crack Thai analyst worries about the intersection of so many vectors not making… Continue reading -
Jul 27 2025 
Until Someone Like You Bleeds
…any division within ASEAN benefits the USA, and Uncle Sam loves nothing better than any ally of China to be roughed up.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
On 7/24/25, just hours after conflict erupted between Cambodia and Thailand, a 24-year-old was assaulted in Chanthaburi, 300 miles from the actual fighting. Employed at… Continue reading
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Jul 26 2025 
Sam Backed Siam Slaps Hun Sen’s Kampuchea
As always, us fleas are squashed when geopolitical mammoths collide.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
This flareup between Cambodia and Thailand deserves a much closer scrutiny. Before you go to Brian Berletic, Danny Haiphong or, God forbid, Scott Ritter, it’s best you pay the utmost attention to every syllable, pause and mispronunciation… Continue reading
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Jul 11 2025 
FM Sergey Lavrov: Presser – Russia-ASEAN meeting and ministerialof the East Asia Summit, Kuala Lumpur,
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions following the Russia-ASEAN meeting and the ministerial meeting of the East Asia Summit member states, Kuala Lumpur, July 11, 2025
[Please note the paragraph that I’ve bolded. Please also note the posts ‘Concentration camp’: Israel’s planned new city in Rafah, explained with comments between AHH and myself,… Continue reading
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May 30 2025 
When East and West can’t meet: Between Leviathan, Behemoth and Mandala
The first ever ASEAN-China-GCC trilateral summit was a de facto celebration of the New Silk Road spirit.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The first ever ASEAN-China-GCC trilateral summit earlier this week in Malaysia – with 17 Global South nations at the table – was a de facto celebration of the New Silk Road spirit.
Malaysian Prime… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2025 
The United Global South Front against the Tariff Paper Tiger
An excellent wide ranging discussion and follow-up on the Spirit of Shanghai article.
coalescence of new Primakov Triangle with all three at once under the Orange devil-storm
Yanquis about to be submerged in their own Century of Humiliation
BRICS regain focus with urgency, propelled by ASEAN and China
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Apr 21 2025 
The Shanghai Spirit – China Will Take No Bullying
Shanghai shows China relishes its new role as a Resistance beacon, bent on defying bullying, busy building a Global Majority consensus. It’s all about strategic patience …
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
SHANGHAI – There could not be a more strategic place to spend these past Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT) heady days than in Shanghai –… Continue reading
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