A Uyghur separatist group that helped to topple the government of Bashar al Assad has declared its intention to return to Xinjiang in order to conduct military operations against the People's Republic of China. The announcement suggests that Washington and its allies are preparing to open another front in a war that has already plunged... Read More

America’s prestige has rapidly declined. The 2003 war in Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis, Edward Snowden’s exposure of the NSA’s spying program, the weaponization of the US dollar, and America’s diplomatic isolation in support of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza have chipped away at the persuasion power of Washington’s argument that it is uniquely qualified... Read More

What changed in the US-China relationship that is pushing the two countries closer to war? No one seems to know. Readers who follow developments in China closely, know that relations between the two superpowers have grown increasingly strained in the last few years. But while the US has taken a more hostile approach to China,... Read More

The United States has settled on a multi-pronged strategy to thwart China's development and preserve America's premier position in the global order. The economic part of the plan is called "decoupling", which refers to the selective blocking of China's access to critical technology (particularly advanced semiconductors). The strategy has garnered nearly-universal support among America's foreign... Read More

Seven years after being launched by President Xi Jinping, first in Astana and then in Jakarta, the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) increasingly drive the American plutocratic oligarchy completely nuts. The relentless paranoia about the Chinese “threat� has much to do with the exit ramp offered by Beijing to a Global... Read More