From Bolsonaro To BRICS: What Trump’s Tariffs On Brazil Are Really About By Uriel Araujo Trump’s 50% tariff on Brazil, framed as support for Bolsonaro, may actually target Brazil’s deepening ties with China and the BRICS bloc. The move risks triggering… Read More ›
Myanmar’s Kachin State Is At The Centre Of The Sino-US Scramble For Rare Earths By Andrew Korybko The US seeks influence over this region that supplies much of neighbouring China’s rare earth industry. Western media has published a spree of articles… Read More ›
Trump’s Shortened Deadline For Putin Will Soon Reveal Which Of Them Miscalculated By Andrew Korybko Polar opposite understandings of the Sino-Indo prisoner’s dilemma lie at the core of their calculations. Trump announced on Monday that he was shortening his 50-day deadline to Putin… Read More ›
Von Der Leyen Just Subordinated The EU As The US’ Largest-Ever Vassal State By Andrew Korybko This outcome places the US on the path of restoring its unipolar hegemony via sequential lopsided trade deals as it likely sets its sights on… Read More ›
Indo-Pakistani Rivalry Reshaping Global Geopolitics: A Conflict Neither Local Nor Over By Uriel Araujo The long-standing conflict between India and Pakistan is not confined to South Asia. The rivalry is entangling the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Eurasian alliances — posing… Read More ›
What’s Thailand’s Endgame If Its Conflict With Cambodia Escalates Into War? By Andrew Korybko Demilitarization and regime change might be in the cards. The latest clashes between Cambodia and Thailand over their decades-long border dispute, which were arguably initiated by the… Read More ›
Thailand’s Domestic Dynamics Are Likely Responsible For The Latest Clashes With Cambodia By Andrew Korybko They’re not due to some divide-and-rule plot by the US or anyone else like some might speculate. Intense clashes broke out along the colonial-era French-drawn Cambodian-Thai border… Read More ›
Here’s How Lindsey Graham Manipulated Trump Against Putin By Andrew Korybko It all started by tricking Trump into thinking that Ukraine has trillions of dollars’ worth of rare earths. RT published two critical pieces about Lindsey Graham, “World War mastermind: Here’s… Read More ›
Australia And Japan Are Seemingly Having Second Thoughts About The De Facto Asian NATO By Andrew Korybko Playing any role in a Sino-US war over Taiwan, even a logistical one, could provoke Chinese retaliation. The Financial Times reported that US Under Secretary… Read More ›
The New China-Venezuela Partnership Is Challenging U.S. Hegemony By Uriel Araujo Venezuela and China are expanding cooperation across energy, tech, infrastructure, and defence. With over 600 joint projects and growing maritime and military links, the partnership challenges longstanding US influence, in… Read More ›
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