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Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Epoch Times, The whole planet is enthralled, appalled, shocked and awed by the spectacle of democracy as enacted under the shadow of messianic imperialism – complete with a slew of slimy, smoking gun October Surprises. We’re in total Frank Underwood territory. And as befits the ultimate “society of the simulacrum” pictured by Baudrillard…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog, originally posted at The Asia Times, Modern China’s deviation from traditional Confucian values has seriously damaged its 'Mandate of Heaven'... Chinese scholar Lanxin Xiang has written a book, The Quest for Legitimacy in Chinese Politics, that is arguably the most extraordinary effort in decades trying to bridge the East-West politico-historical divide. It’s…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Academic Lanxin Xiang is no fan of Trump's China policies but also sees where Beijing has miscalculated and overreached... Everything about US-China hinges on the result of the upcoming US presidential election. Trump 2.0 essentially would turbo-charge its bet on decoupling, aiming to squeeze “malign” China on…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog, originally posted at The Asia Times, Beijing has a plan to become the indispensable tech core of East Asia, linking ASEAN, Northeast Asia and even both Koreas... Let’s cut to the chase: with or without a sanction juggernaut, China simply won’t be expelled from the global semiconductor…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog, (Originally posted at The Asia Times), It took one minute for President Trump to introduce a virus at the virtual 75th UN General Assembly, blasting “the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world”. And then it all went downhill. Even as Trump was essentially delivering a campaign speech and…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The concept of “History in the making” has been pushed to extremes when it comes to the extraordinary public service being performed by historian, former UK diplomat and human rights activist Craig Murray. Murray – literally, and on a global level – is now positioned as our man…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, With rising integration among China, Iran and Pakistan, India is integrated only with its own inconsistencies...   There was a time when New Delhi was proudly selling the notion of establishing its own New Silk Road – from the Gulf of Oman to the intersection of Central…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog (originally posted at The Asia Times), Beijing-Moscow is already on; Berlin-Beijing is a work in progress; the missing but not distant link is Berlin-Moscow.. We have seen how China is meticulously planning all its crucial geopolitical and geoeconomic moves all the way to 2030 and beyond. What you are…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The narrative that the Beirut explosion was an exclusive consequence of negligence and corruption by the current Lebanese government is now set in stone, at least in the Atlanticist sphere. And yet, digging deeper, we find that negligence and corruption may have been fully exploited, via sabotage,…

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, When the Ronald Reagan and Nimitz carrier strike groups recently engaged in “operations” in the South China Sea, it did not escape to many a cynic that the US Pacific Fleet was doing its best to turn the infantile Thucydides Trap theory into a self-fulfilling prophecy. The…