Tag: China


In my previous piece — The Walls Have Doors Now — I argued that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s promised “measures like have never been seen in the history of the economic isolation of a country” would push against an open frontier: an Iran with land bridges to Pakistan, military and intelligence lifelines to Russia and China, and, most consequentially, an oil trade that has walked out of the dollar entirely, settling in Chinese yuan through China’s CIPS clearing network beyond the reach of U.S. financial plumbing.
The map of alliances between West and South Asia can no longer be deduced solely from geography or religious alignments.
A decisão de financiar componentes chineses para drones destinados à Ucrânia revela que a autonomia estratégica europeia continua mais ambição do que realidade.
Es scheint, als hätten die Deutschen endlich begonnen, das Ausmaß des Problems ernsthaft zu begreifen, in das ihr Automobilgigant Volkswagen geraten ist. Und längst geht es nicht mehr um ein misslungenes Modell, sinkende Verkaufszahlen auf einem einzelnen Markt oder eine […]

