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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 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 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 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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Dec 29 2024 
The Perfect Energy Storm Arrives in Europe…
… and Uncle Sam runs “to help”.
💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Ukraine bought “democratic” gas from the USAThe energy company DTEK (owned by oligarch Rinat Akhmedov through SCM Limited) purchased the first batch of 100 million cubic meters of LNG . The gas was delivered from the state of Louisiana by the Gaslog Savannah vessel (flag… Continue reading
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Sep 23 2024 
Will a BRICS Bretton Woods Take Place in Kazan?
Is BRICS ready to become an actor in Kazan next month, and what should be on the table in terms of the strategy to establish an alternative payment system?
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
With less than a month before the crucial BRICS annual summit in Kazan under the Russian presidency, serious informed discussions are raging in… Continue reading -
Sep 17 2024 
The Russian Digital Ruble & BRICS Bridge
Leaving the dollar-based system for good: What are the digital ruble and BRICS Bridge?
By July 1, 2025, the largest Russian banks will have to provide their clients with the ability to conduct transactions in digital rubles, according to the Russian Central Bank. Pilot testing of the digital currency is underway with 12 banks participating in… Continue reading
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Aug 27 2024 
EU to Telegram – We’re Coming to Get You
The Pavel Durov saga is a gift that will keep on giving for a long time to come. This is what hot information war is all about. So let’s attempt to connect several loose ends.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
A high-level Russian analyst makes the case that Durov’s arrest is connected with “anti-French protests in its… Continue reading
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Jul 22 2024 
China Designs an Economic Road Map All the Way to 2029
The plenum could be easily interpreted as a calculated exercise in Taoist patience… When the term “reform” appears no less than 53 times in the final communique, that means – contrary to Western proselytism – that the CPC is dead set on improving governance and increasing efficiency.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
HONG KONG – There can… Continue reading -
Mar 15 2024 
Will BRICS launch a new world in 2024?
Ryabkov, Ushakov and Glazyev foresee a quickening of the Russian river after Putin’s spring reelection: the BRICS will create payment and settlement systems that do not depend upon the shifty “rules-based international order.”
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
“BRICS doubled its membership at the start of 2024, and faces huge tasks ahead: integrating its newest members,… Continue reading
