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WHICH TARGET AFTER SYRIA?
19 years of “war without end” President George W. Bush decided to radically transform the Pentagon’s missions, as Colonel Ralph Peters explained in the Army magazine Parameters on September 13, 2001. Secretary of Defense […]
POMEGRANATE'S PERFORMANCE-BOOSTING POTENTIAL CONFIRMED
Pomegranate extract provides a natural way to boost athletic performance, increasing the time to exhaustion by more than 1.5 minutes among a group of amateur cyclists. Could pomegranate give you a similar […]
Myanmar a perfect fit on China’s Belt and Road
Four priority BRI projects in Myanmar promise to make China a balance-of-power tilting Indian Ocean force by Bertil Lintner If the four most important of 33 agreements Xi signed with his Myanmar […]
GREATER ALBANIA PROJECT
GREATER ALBANIA PROJECT IS ACCELERATING AS KOSOVO’S STATEHOOD IS IN QUESTION Clear indications have been made that there is a project for a Greater Albania and it is progressing ahead, especially as […]
India is now the world’s 5th largest economy
Data from the IMF shows India has risen to become the world’s fifth largest economy, when ranked by nominal GDP. India, in this ranking, has leapfrogged France and the UK. Despite its […]
Location, location, location: Why Russian LNG can beat competition from US & Australia?
Russia’s geographical position makes its exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) more profitable and competitive with American and Australian supplies, according to Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak. Russia ships most of its […]
The Future of Banking
How open banking can transform the financial industry Authored by: Pascal Hügli As the saying goes, “What goes up must come down.” In this case, the ‘what’ are the stock prices of Swiss […]
Iran Is China’s Secret Weapon for Killing off the US Dollar’s Global Reserve Status
Federico Pieraccini There is a strong current of change affecting the international political arena. It is the beginning of a revolution brought on by the transition from a unipolar to multipolar world […]
BIG PHARMA LOSING MONEY AS PATIENTS SWITCH FROM OPIOIDS TO CANNABIS
Matt Weeks Cannabis is helping chronic pain patients, resulting in Big Pharma losing money The news that cannabis is effective in treating most types of pain is shaking business and political institutions. […]
US firms power rise in global arms sales
New data from SIPRI showed that sales of arms and military services by the top 100 firms went up by 47% since 2002 ByDave Makichuk Sales of arms and military services witnessed […]
Chinese psyops vs US have been one hell of a success
Some combination of money, flattery and a 10-course dinner is usually all that’s needed with Americans ByGrant Newsham The Chinese Communist Party is a nasty regime. But sometimes one marvels at what […]
Explained: ZF two-speed EV gearbox
By Daniel Gardner German transmission giant cuts new teeth on two EV ratios With the exception of a handful of high-end high-performance models, all electric vehicles use a simple single-speed transmission to […]
Great Wall pushes ahead with US$1.1 billion EV plant
But prominent players in new energy vehicles are now suffering — and blaming it on the drop-off in government subsidies ByDave Makichuk Car sales are down in China, and around the world […]
Where the Silk Roads meet the mighty Mekong
Sleepy, landlocked Laos is undergoing rapid changes as China builds connections to mainland Southeast Asia ByPepe Escobar, Luang Prabang The small wooden boats slowly make their way down the brown waters of […]
Beijing wants 100,000 hydrogen cars by 2025
Lured by government incentives and research, manufacturers are rushing to set up production plants China expects to have 100,000 cars powered by clean-burning hydrogen cells on its roads within five to six years […]
Venezuela’s future depends on China, Russia
By Vijay Prashad Oil ministers recently gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, the epicenter of an oil rush that took place a century ago. They came for the 13th meeting of the ministers of […]
New battery to revolutionize energy storage
Safe, high-density battery developed in Hong Kong is tipped to boost penetration of renewable energy A safe, high-rate and long-life oxygen battery that exploits a potassium biphenyl complex anode instead of the […]
How Russia’s Greater Eurasia Plan May Spell the End of EU-Centric Model
Ekaterina Blinova After a 500 year-long struggle for recognition of its status as a European power, Russia has positioned itself as a pivot to the East to develop Greater Eurasia, Glenn Diesen, […]
Why the US-China trade war might not end
By Ken Moak Eco-geopolitical logic would dictate that the world’s two largest economies should end their trade war. Indeed, it should never have started. The tit-for-tat tariffs are not only hurting both […]
The A380 may keep flying in China’s skies
Beijing to reward fat orders for technical cooperation as the nation needs more super-jumbos ByFrank Chen The A380 passenger aircraft is already flying into the sunset, after its maiden flight merely a […]
Is Vietnam adopting a tough South China Sea posture?
By Xuan Loc Doan Over the past month, some international news outlets have reported that Vietnam is pursuing a strong stance on the South China Sea. Yet a closer look at Hanoi’s […]
The US war on China’s economic model
The growing hostility of Western governments to China is more about the interests of Western investors than legitimate security fears By Stephen Gowans The United States stations 320,000 troops in the vicinity […]
US initiative would fail to contain China and put allies at risk
By Ken Moak The January 5 edition of the South China Morning Post reported that the US passed the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) to reaffirm and reassure its “allies” that America […]
