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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: the most important connectivity corridor ever, rolling across Ancient Eurasia, linking what Chinese scholars consensually… Continue reading
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Oct 08 2025 
Xiyouji: My Journey to the West
A celestial Travelogue through the western regions of China.
By Silk Road pilgrim Pepe Escobar on Sputnik.
ON THE ROAD IN XINJIANG – Xuanzang, the itinerant Buddhist monk, has got to be one of the most extraordinary figures in History. He certainly is regarded as such in China.
In the early Tang dynasty in the 7th century, Xuanzang… Continue reading -
Sep 21 2025 
The Choice is Stark – Global Governance or Barbarism
“Peaches and plums don’t speak, but they are so attractive that a path is formed below the trees.”
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
There is something ineffably eternal about the “drum beating and bell chiming from sundown to daybreak” when it comes to the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower standing in the north end of ancient… Continue reading -
Jul 27 2025 
Prof. Zhang Weiwei on China-EU and BRI
Discussing Together, Building Together, Benefitting Together.
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Mar 21 2025 
China’s trade triumph: Resilience against US choke point threats
By Angelo Giuliano, Political and financial analyst and first posted at english.dotdotnews.com
China’s economic rise, fueled by maritime trade—60% of its trillion-dollar annual trade value crossing oceans with oil, gas, materials, and goods—stands as a testament to its global reach. The United States, clinging to fading power, eyes choke points to disrupt this: the Strait of… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2024 
Crash of Azerbaijani civilian airliner in Kazakhstan
Accidental tragedy or monstrous provocation?
Editorial at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
It may be hoped that the attempts by Russia’s adversaries to politicize this tragedy and use it to weaken the trusting relations between historically close nations are doomed to failure.
The crash investigation of the Brazilian-built Embraer 190 airliner is ongoing, and therefore, it is too early… Continue reading -
Sep 26 2024 
China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI)
… and What it Means for the World. “No Global South without China!” A review of the 11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, hosted by the People’s Liberation Army. 🔻 Heartland Economic blocs versus Occidental Military blocs.
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Jul 20 2024 
US Grand Strategy in the Middle East to Contain China
Hamas & unhackable Huawei? Fighting the last (energy denial) war against Imperial Japan, 85+ years later? And other Exceptionalist conundrums navigating “Strategery in our Greater Middle East.”
Carl Zha talks to long term Chine observer Peter Lee aka chinahand on X of the Peter Lee’s China Threat Report about the US Grand Strategy in the Middle… Continue reading
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Oct 20 2023 
Russia, China Map Out New Economic Order in Beijing
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnik
History – complete with poetic justice overtones – presented us this week with the ultimate, glaring contrast between the geopolitics of the past, enacted in an incendiary corner of southwest Asia, and the geopolitics of the future, enacted in East Asia’s Beijing, one of the capitals of emerging multipolarity.
Let’s… Continue reading
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Oct 19 2023 
Beijing – 3rd Belt and Road Forum – Projecting a “Human Kind of Community with a Shared Future”
China’s President Xi Jinping, in his Opening Statement to the 3rd Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, said that “China is doing well only when the world is doing well, and if China is doing well, the world is doing even better.” He projected A Human kind of community with a shared future.
Continuing with his opening remarks,… Continue reading
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Jun 02 2023 
Half the world’s ship cargo now uses China’s BRI
An amazing 149 of the world’s roughly 200 countries have now signed up for the BRI, the biggest trade sharing project in human history. It’s an extraordinary achievement in just a single decade. But the ultimate aim is even more ambitious — global peace through shared prosperity by 2049.
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