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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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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 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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Jul 04 2025 
A storm in a teacup or no more ‘Chinese tea’ for Europe?
A storm in a teacup is raging after Mr Wang Yi’s visit to Europe. Wang Yi visited various European officials including German Foreign Minister Wadephul in Berlin, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot and French Foreign Minister Jean-Nolé Barro.
This post deals with his 4-hour meeting with the ‘brilliant’ Kaya Callas and other… Continue reading
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Jul 03 2025 
The US makes a ‘tremendous trade/tariff deal with Vietnam’.
With a sidewalk bowl of phở and a plastic spoon, Sony Thang breaks the spell.
They caved! They are traitors! They are empire! Is the cry that went up after the announcement of the Trade Deal with Vietnam. 20% Tariffs! 40% Transhipment Tariffs! 0% tariffs on goods from the US to Vietnam. Vietnam opens its market… Continue reading -
Jun 27 2025 
Victor Gao: “Something BIG Is About to Happen in America…”
In this video, Victor Gao delivers a sharp critique of U.S. trade policy under Donald Trump, positioning China as both a defender of free trade and a nation unwilling to be intimidated. He paints the trade war as a reckless act of economic hostility, arguing that China’s response is grounded not in aggression, but in… Continue reading
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Jun 04 2025 
US-China trade: Slumps nearly 20% amid tariff row
U.S.-China trade is beginning to show the pain of tariffs.
US-China trade dropped to $45.6 billion from $56.4 billion a year earlier, according to Chinese customs data for April.
China is the only country that faced a whole month of elevated US tariffs – which kicked in on April 10 and were paused on May 14.
🔴If tariffs… Continue reading
