China’s factories are in another world
by Inside China Business [3-23-2025]. (RAD: The level of automation in China’s factories needs to be seen to be believed. We are long past the days where China competed on low cost labor. It now has total domination of the supply chains, of engineering, and an industrial sector that builds other machines entirely on their…
Pepe Escobar, Danny Haiphong: Iran Forces US Navy to RETREAT, Trump in SHOCK as Russia, China and BRICS Step In
by Danny Haiphong [2-9-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). (RAD: This is a discussion you don’t want to miss. Trump is in a bad spot, no matter what he does. – RAD) Pepe Escobar joins the show to discuss reports of US Navy in retreat as Iran’s war maneuvers send Trump scrambling for a face saving move. Meanwhile,…
Welcome to Inside China Business
by Inside China Business [5-22-2024]. (RAD: It is popular in the US to bash China for all sorts of reasons, instead of looking in the mirror. It would be far more productive to learn from China on how the US could be more productive in the world. In the technology world I come from, when…
Western countries subsidize our biggest companies. China subsidizes their small ones.
by Inside China Business [4-23-2024]. (RAD: This is a very important observation about some key reasons that China can quickly dominate critical technology segments. It is applied to thousands of companies in dozens of industries. His explanation is easy to understand, including examples showing the US approach vs the Chinese approach. Although not mentioned here,…
Beyond The Bubble: Why 2026 Will Be The Year AI Replaces Human Workers
by Mike Adams [2-9-2026]. Introduction: The Great AI Deception of 2025 Last year, pundits and skeptics declared artificial intelligence had hit a wall. They claimed the AI bubble was deflating, that machine cognition had plateaued, and that human ingenuity would remain irreplaceable. They were catastrophically wrong. The year 2026 has arrived, and with it, a…
Why China is Winning
by Inside China Business [2-2-2024]. (RAD: This is an amazing observation about China in February 2024. Just as the West & the US turned away from Christianity, China found it. He continues… Just look around. We can’t beat these people, not in a trade war, not in an economic war, and not in a war…
Prayers going on, factory visits going up, Substack for support: a 2-year channel update +++
by Inside China Business [2-8-2026]. (RAD: Kevin Walmsley has been inside China for about 14 years since May 2012. This “Inside China Business” channel was started 2 years & 2 months ago. I don’t remember how I found this channel, yet I’ve found the insights Kevin shares to be very helpful & consistent with a…
This is how the energy economy actually works – and why the EU can’t grasp it while their cost of living keeps increasing
by Henry Johnston [2-6-2026]. Henry Johnston is based in Moscow, Russia and contributes pieces mainly about economics and finance. He worked for over a decade in the investment research unit of Russia’s largest bank. He has a deep interest in history and philosophy and is an avid amateur chess player. Obsessed with tinkering with policy to…
Big trouble for friendshoring: German firms slash investment in the US, to double down in China
by Inside China Business [2-6-2026]. Despite the weak dollar and high tariffs, industrial companies are dramatically reducing new investments in the United States. Surveys of German companies reveal that the policies from Washington are simply too erratic for their executives to make even short-term forecasts, let alone multi-year budgeting decisions. But their approach to China…
Scott Ritter, Nima Alkhorshid: Game Over? Trump’s Iran Strategy Might Blow Up and Start a Regional War. Russia & China are Iran’s friends, NOT the US.
by Dialogue Works [2-4-2026] Scott Ritter(bio), Nima R. Alkhorshid(bio). (RAD: Nima has a PhD in Engineering and has been living in Brazil. He is now back in Iran to visit family & friends and is seeing how much Iran has changed in the past 12 years. This is a very excellent discussion with Scott Ritter.…
The Chinese Yuan is already a global reserve currency, and Chinese companies are taking advantage.
by Inside China Business [2-5-2026]. China’s central bank has currency swap agreements with dozens of countries, and trillions of dollars in goods trade are now settled in renminbi. The US Dollar remains the dominant reserve currency globally. But a severe shortage of dollars in many systems opens the door to Chinese companies, who can transact…
Larry Johnson, Daniel Davis: Russia Doing Exactly What They Said They’d Do in Ukraine; Iran, US, Israel, Middle East, Russia, China
by Daniel Davis, Deep Dive [2-4-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). (RAD: This is one of the best discussions about the current status of the Ukrainian conflict and the military & political issues surrounding the Iranian conflict that is based upon careful present & historical analysis. I’m including it so that we can look back after a…