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Dec 04 2025 
Global Trade News
“The genie is out of the bottle. The provocation of a “USV privateer war” on trade routes threatens to collapse global maritime trade.”
By Rotislav Ishchenko at ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
The oil tanker Virat has been attacked twice by unmanned boats near the Bosphorus Strait. On one occasion, the ship Kairos was also set on fire. Western media… Continue reading
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Nov 15 2025 
Japan antagonizes China, Koreas, Russia
Takaichi: the Honeymooner. When will the divorce come?
with gratitude to Julian Macfarlane at News Forensics.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s poll numbers have risen to over 65%. I am not sure whether Takaichi is the Japanese Thatcher— or the Japanese Blair both of whom came into power with great numbers. .
She has already sparked controversy.
One is… Continue reading
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Nov 12 2025 
It took 40 years to replace Al Qaeda with Al Qaeda
“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s Founding Fathers.” — President Reagan meeting with Freedom Fighters from Afghanistan (Mujahedin), Oval Office, 1985.
Nima AlKhorshid interviews our roving eye nomad on the central Asian Stans, Al Qaeda ‘R US, and other travails of stark-naked Anglo-Zionists.
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Oct 22 2025 
All the World is a Stage across the Ancient Silk Road
A time travel across History – the Ancient Silk Roads as well as Xinjiang may well be the ultimate crossroads of civilizations. Along Central Asia, they are the (beating) heart of the Heartland…
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
ON THE SOUTHERN SILK ROAD – Silk is the stuff of legend. Literally. At first manufactured… Continue reading -
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 getting China wrong and how China, as both a nation-state and civilization-state, is blazing a… Continue reading
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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 World War, is currently undergoing a serious breakdown, as well as the coming celebration of… Continue reading
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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 11 2025 
On the Silk Road to Isfahan
Judge Nap catches our roving eye nomad—pilgrim between flights to review the incendiary moment
💠 Rock’n Roll Geopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺RYABKOV UNPLUGGED“We have a certain building of relations, which has cracked, which is collapsing – the Americans are to blame for this. Now the cracks have reached the foundation. I think it’s easier to destroy than to build.… 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 23 2025 
From China: World leaders united in defence of international humanitarian law to uphold humanity in war
This is from FU Cong 傅聪
China’s ambassador to the UN
21 September 2025
Alarmed by widespread violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) in conflicts around the world and the resulting unconscionable human suffering, we, the leaders of Brazil, China, France, Jordan, Kazakhstan and South Africa, together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), urge States… Continue reading
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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 -
Sep 21 2025 
On the cusp of nuclear war with China
In this powerful interview, KJ Noh breaks down the dangerous trajectory of U.S. foreign policy.
KJ Noh: How the US Is Escalating Toward War With China https://t.co/QTLyFcJclY via @YouTube
— India & Global Left (@Indiagloballeft) September 20, 2025We explore whether China is doing enough for Palestine, how and why the United States is escalating toward war with… Continue reading
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Sep 09 2025 
From Tianjin and Beijing to Vladivostok, the Eurasia High-Speed Train Keeps-a-Rollin’
History will register that the first week of September 2025 propelled the advent of the Eurasia Century to a whole new level.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
That was the expectation ahead of three crucial intertwined dates: the SCO annual summit in Tianjin; the Victory Day parade in Beijing; and the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
Yet expectations… Continue reading
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Sep 08 2025 
Those kind charity workers in China: They were nabbed hot
China’s Ministry of State Security discloses espionage case involving overseas individuals disguised as charity workers
China’s Ministry of State Security on Tuesday revealed that a foreign organization sent operatives into remote southwestern regions in China disguised as mountaineers and charity workers, where they posed as providing medical aid to gain villagers’ trust and recruit guides to… Continue reading
