Three days at the Louvre: How China took over the global furniture industry
by Inside China Busness [3-18-2026]. Foshan is a city of 9 million, in Guangdong province. In less than 30 years following its official designation as Chinese industry cluster for furniture manufacturing, Foshan factories now build half the furniture sold across the world. Foshan’s takeover of home furnishings is typical of hundreds of other cities and…
Einar Tangen, Glenn Diesen: China’s Strategy for Managing U.S. Decline & Trump
by Glenn Diesen [5-24-2026]. (RAD: This is a perfect example of how to deal with people like Trump. Going head-to-head dosesn’t work, espcially when the US is in decline. Avoiding confrontation that will escalate & lead to global war isn’t a sane approach. Listen to Einar Tangen explain these issues that go all the way…
China builds next-generation fighter jets faster than anyone
by Inside China Business [3-17-2026]. The modernization of China’s military has no precedent in human history. In just one decade, the PLA has built the world’s largest navy, and fleets of advanced aircraft and long range missiles. They also did so with modest annual increases in defense spending, while achieving self-sufficiency in the most cutting-edge…
Pepe Escobar: In the AI era, where will the younger generation go in the future? A famous Brazilian journalist said this…
by Pepe Escobar [5-21-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). In the AI era, where will the younger generation go in the future? A famous Brazilian journalist said this… Aurora Vocational College On May 20, Aurora Education Group specially invited Renowned Brazilian journalist and geopolitical scholar Mr. Pepe Escobar visited Focusing on “what is the future of the younger generation…
Pepe Escobar: The new “indispensable nation” for the Multipolar Planet enters the scene
by Pepe Escobar [5-22-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). The New Silk Roads/BRI and their offshoots, such as the Northern Maritime Route/Arctic Silk Road, are still alive and well. SHANGHAI – Here we are. The strategic partnership between Russia and China, leaders in the Eurasian integration process, leaders of the BRICS multipolar bodies and the SCO have formally…
Pepe Escobar – Putin in China: The New U.S.–Russia–China Equation
by Pepe Escobar [5-20-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio).
Larry Johnson: Who is the Real Monster? Hezbollah or Israel… A Response to the Munk Debate
by Larry Johnson [5-23-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). I plunked down $25 to watch the Wednesday night Munk debate between the team of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt vesus the team of Victoria Nuland and Mike Pompeo. The debate was titled, Foreign Wars Debate: Be it resolved, don’t go hunting monsters. The premise of the debate, in…
Here’s how Putin and Xi can save the West from itself
by Ladislav Zemánek [5-22-2026]. Ladislav Zemánek, PhD, is a non-resident research fellow at the China-CEE Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Budapest and an expert with the Valdai Discussion Club. He holds a doctorate in History from Charles University in Prague, where he also completed his BA and MA in East European Studies. Zemánek collaborated…
Joint Declaration of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the Formation of a Multipolar World and International Relations of a New Type
by Amarynth [5-20-2026]. The Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the Parties), as civilizations with ancient history, founding members of the United Nations (UN) and permanent members of its Security Council, and important centers of power in a multipolar world, play a constructive role in maintaining the global balance…
Pepe Escobar: The Russia-China spaceship rushes towards Planet Multipolar
by Pepe Escobar [5-21-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). The New Silk Roads/BRI and its derivations such as the Northern Sea Route/Arctic Silk Road remain alive and kicking. SHANGHAI – This is it. The Russia-China strategic partnership, the leaders in the process of Eurasia integration, the leaders of multipolar bodies BRICS and the SCO, have formally endorsed and…
Pepe Escobar, Judge Napolitano: What China’s Xi Told Russia’s Putin
by Judge Napolitano [5-21-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio).
Russia Deploys Mach 27 Avangard Maneuvering Hypersonic Missile NATO Can’t Stop
by New Rules [5-22-2026]. (RAD: I said from the beginning that Trump’s “Golden Dome” defense was a joke that wouldn’t be able to stop advnced incoming missiles & other devices. This is one of many examples illustrating the correctness of my observation. – RAD) Russia’s Avangard just made the NATO’s trillion-dollar missile shields look like…