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May 01 2025 
Pepe with Judge Napolitano
Thanks to Tariffs, China Ditching US Tech. Napolitano interviews geopolitician Pepe Escobar, April 30th, 2025.
“… in this wilderness of narrative mirrors, Trump should be perceived as all characters combined: the White Rabbit, Humpty Dumpty (“When I use a word, it means what I choose to mean, no more and no less”), the Mad Hatter, the… Continue reading
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Apr 30 2025 
Going to Kashmir…just to find Alice in Wonderland
Welcome to “Ruler of the World” does Wonderland – to the sound of that hypnotic ‘Kashmir’ riff.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Two overarching taboos reign on the – now shattered – collective West:
Can’t define the Ukraine regime as Nazi.
Can’t condemn the psychopathological Israeli genocide in Gaza.The taboos happen to be inextricably linked… Continue reading
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Apr 30 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Yemen Hits Back, China’s Response, Iran’s Resolve, Russia’s Strategy — U.S. on Alert
With Nima, Dialogue Works
On the Yemen issue, we have reasonable suspicion that the US is using amateur open-source intelligence (OSINT) data shared by social media users. Read from PressTV:
By Yousef Ramazani
Speculation is rife that the US military has been using amateur open-source intelligence (OSINT) data shared by social media users on virtual platforms to attack… Continue reading
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Apr 29 2025 
China Steps Up Its Game in the Global AI Race
Huawei chips are already the real deal for every Chinese company which is following the new Beijing-defined direction to reduce any reliance on American technology
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Late next month, Huawei will be testing its new powerful AI processor, the Ascend 910 D, even as by early May the previous 910C will start to… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2025 
China, Hong Kong and The Art of Blinking
Captain Chaos definitely does not have the cards – which as even South Pacific penguins know, are all made in China.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG – So, predictably, Captain Chaos did blink first. As much as he – and his sprawling media circus – could not possibly admit it.
It all… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2025 
China successfully launches Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship; technical improvements, new life science experiments
from Global Times
Here is a one minute clip of the launch:
https://t.me/TheIslanderNews/39849
China is doing real honest work in space.
China successfully launches Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship; mission features technical improvements and new life science experiments
The Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, atop the Long March-2F carrier rocket on 5:17… 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 -
Apr 13 2025 
Why China won’t call a ‘tariff-wielding barbarian’
Three wise monkeys are perfectly aware of what a pigeon posing as eagle is really up to.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The Toddler Temper Tantrum-style Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT), now accelerated to 145% – and counting – is yet another thunderous trademark pigeon smashing the chessboard gambit.
It won’t work. Trump claimed that China would… Continue reading
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Apr 06 2025 
Chinese Government’s Position on Opposing U.S. Abuse of Tariffs: Global Response
https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyxw/202504/t20250406_11589042.html
April 5, 2025
Recently, the United States has imposed tariffs on all its trading partners, including China, under various pretexts.
This severely infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of all countries, severely violates World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, severely undermines the rules-based multilateral trading system, and severely disrupts the global economic order.
The Chinese government strongly condemns and resolutely opposes such move.By taking… Continue reading
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Apr 03 2025 
How Trump’s Tariff Tizzy is Burning Down the House
Global Majority, rejoice! And step on the high-speed rail de-dollarization train.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Circus ringmaster Trump’s Tariff Tizzy (TTT), christened by himself as “Liberation Day”, is being largely interpreted around the world – Global North and Global South alike – as Slaughterhouse Day.
This de facto uncontrolled economic demolition gambit starts with… Continue reading
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Apr 01 2025 
Hold My Beer
The bomber is NOT always going to get through. Several of them are going to end up in flaming debris on Iranian mountainsides.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
Ok, right up front I want to make it clear that this post is simply an extended riff on the same theme I have been fixed upon in my… Continue reading
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Mar 28 2025 
As China Retaliates Against Panama Ports Deal, US Wants Chinese Tech Assets For Tariff Relief
Seun Foo
(You may remember we spoke about the US trying to put additional port fees for Chinese ships on the Caribbean Ports, but this is now circling out.)
The good ol’ shake-down, says Seun.
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Beating China Vs Being China
By indi.ca
America is trying to beat China while China is simply trying to be China. America views everything as a competition and #1 as something you can eat for dinner. China, on the other hand, doesn’t think about America nearly as much, viewing international relations as cooperation and focusing on its own people. You can… Continue reading
