Kai-Fu Lee’s brutal assessment: America is already losing the AI hardware war to China
by Michael Nuñez [10-22-2025]. Michael Nuñez is the Editorial Director of VentureBeat, where he leads the coverage of artificial intelligence and enterprise data. He has been an editor at Forbes, Popular Science, Gizmodo, and Mashable, and has written extensively about the social and ethical implications of technology. (RAD: With regards to AI, it is important…
Kai-Fu Lee: China Is Winning the AI War, and Silicon Valley Knows It
by Kai-Fu Lee [10-26-2025]. Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese computer scientist, IT venture capitalist, micro-blogger and executive. His most well-known title is “Information Technology Venture Capitalist.” Lee is considered one of the most prominent and influential individuals in the Chinese internet sector, despite the fact that he is Taiwanese. Lee has worked for and with…
Revolutionary catapult gives Chinese navy huge edge in carrier operations
by Inside China Business [10-25-2025]. (RAD: I haven’t done any research as to why the US designed an electromagnetic catapult system where everything was in series, instead of parallel. The above video explains why this has been a fatal error. On the other hand, with my technical background, I certainly don’t understand why the US…
Pepe Escobar: Pamir Highway, the road on the roof of the world
by Pepe Escobar [12-12-2019] Pepe Escobar(bio). These are the ancient Silk Roads the Taliban will never be able to reach. This is arguably the ultimate road trip on earth. Marco Polo did it. All the legendary Silk Road explorers did it. Traveling the Pamir Highway back to back, as a harsh winter approaches, able to…
Pepe Escobar: All the world is a stage across the Ancient Silk Road
by Pepe Escobar [10-22-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). (RAD: Pepe helps us better understand this part of the world. Be sure to read the section after the last “Playing the Uyghur blues” photo at the end. Notice how the British MI6 & the US CIA radicalized a minority of Uyghurs in an attempt to split China…
BRICS Payment System Supports Transactions Across 185 Countries
by The Islander [10-25-2025]. 185 countries can now trade using China’s BRICS-backed payment system -bypassing SWIFT, dodging sanctions, and draining the dollar’s blood supply. If that doesn’t feel like the funeral drums of Western financial hegemony… you’re not paying attention. The BRICS-led global payments revolution has quietly outflanked the Western financial order and it didn’t…
Philosopher Alexander Dugin – Bridge through Budapest for Trump & Putin & Ukraine
by Alexander Dugin [10-24-2025]. (RAD: It takes a world class philosopher, like Alexander Dugin, to help us understand the complex dynamics playing out in the world today. Dugin helps us understand what is going on between the US, Russia, Ukraine, and Europe. This is definitely worth reading. – RAD) Trump, Putin, and Orbán at Budapest’s…
Larry Johnson & Dmitry Suslov – Trump’s Big Mistake: How Sanctions Fuel Russian War Machine
by Larry Johnson, Counter Currents [10-24-2025] Larry C. Johnson(bio). (RAD: This is an excellent discussion. Notice that Russia has a very good understanding of Trump’s negotiating style and the different players in his administration as well as the Europeans. They believe that Trump doesn’t think that Russia is a natural threat to the US, but…
Scott Ritter, Glenn Diesen: Russia “Fed Up” With NATO Escalations – Retaliation is Coming
by Glenn Diesen [10-24-2025] Scott Ritter(bio). (RAD: Scott Ritter keeps having to explain what a “war of attrition” is that Russia is waging in Ukraine and why this is so hard for our government & others in the West to understand. Although the Russians keep moving against the Ukraine military along the entire line of…
Here is why Russia is the only main battle tank superpower
by RT [10-23-2025]. As Western sanctions target Russia’s defense exports, the global race for tanks reveals a simple truth: no one builds them like Moscow does. Who can replace Russia in the global tank market? As Western sanctions tighten around Moscow’s defense industry, that question has become more than theoretical. For decades, Russia has supplied…
America’s farmers and first responders love Chinese drones. And that’s about to be a big problem.
by Inside China Business [10-24-2025]. (RAD: When is the US government going to stop imposing stupid restrictions on Chinese products, just because they don’t like China’s massive manufacturing abilities that the US can’t compete with? The drones issue is another example where there are NO competitive US versions in either price or capabilities. Farm tractors…
Einar Tangen, Glenn Diesen: How China Won the Economic War
by Glenn Diesen [10-23-2025]. Einar Tangen is a Senior Fellow at Teihe Institute and a Senior Fellow at CIGI. Tangen discusses how China made its supply chains immune to economic coercions and, at the same time, has powerful economic weapons at its own disposal. China’s restrictions on rare earth minerals are a powerful instrument, yet…