Silk Road

When French President Emmanuel Macron was recently in China on a three-day visit, he said that he was speaking in the name of Europe. Such a comment might not have gone down well in Berlin. Or did Macron confer with German Chancellor Angela Merkel before goin…

Chinas advanced surveillance regime is taking root along the length of the Belt and Roadespecially the Belt, the overland Eurasian routes that were the origin of the governments ambitious investment project. Recently, Kyrgyzstan opened a new police command ce…

The image leaps right off the page, or electric screen, to the surf-obsessed eye. Its clearly a man surfing a wave. Sure, hes standing on the back of a fish. But the stance, the positioning, its unmistakable. The man is surfing. That the surfing man was carve…

November 15, 2019  12:43 PM The first thing that comes as a surprise to a visitor is just how quiet it is. You can see people on the streets, but shops and offices are all closed. Officially, the schools are open, but the classrooms are largely empty becaus…

A 2018 Pew Survey found that 89% of Greeks found their culture to be superior to others, by far the highest amount of people in Europe where it reached as low as 26% in Sweden, 23% in Estonia and Belgium, and 20% in Spain. The Greeks are by far the…

The successful regime change operation that was just carried out in Bolivia throughout the course of the country’s ongoing US-backed Hybrid War could have some game-changing geostrategic consequences if the coup “authorities” renege on the previous agreements…

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 7: China Railway Express crosses Istanbul's sub-sea tunnel, Marmaray ... (the railway system linking the eastern and western sides of Istanbul from under the Marmara Sea) in Istanbul, Turkey on November 7, 2019. The first freig…

I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.  Marcel Duchamp "Over the roughly one and half millennia of its existence, chess has been known as a tool of military strategy, a metaphor fo…

Facility at Aramco’s Shaybah oilfield in the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia in 2018. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters) The state-owned oil giants intent to go public is deeply problematic for the West, the United States, and the global economy.On November 9, the Kingd…

US-Australia-Japan alternative to Belt and Road helps explain why the US sent a junior delegation to Thailand and why India opted out of RCEP Chinese President Xi Jinping six years ago launched New Silk Roads, now better known as the Belt and Road Initiative…