Japan’s future, whether she likes it or not, will be with its East Asian neighbors’ Belt and Road Initiative when the U.S. 7th Fleet scuttles back to Pearl Harbor.
It is the history of Asia that when white men with guns show up professing good intentions, Asians suffer.
China, and to an extent Russia have demonstrated that America can be rebuffed, and their example has emboldened other countries to make choices it couldn’t before.
A collective West “led” by unspeakable mediocrities looks at the Russia-China strategic partnership as if it was something like a double-headed Anti-Christ. Xi, for his part, seems not to be impressed.
As America continues to bleat on about human rights in China, it supports and promotes the head-choppers to whom it has granted a franchise, Eamon McKinney writes.
In a world of chronic shortages China has realised that commodities hold more value than cash.
Military superpower Russia, having had enough of U.S./NATO bullying, is now dictating the terms of a new arrangement.
They are certainly positive and can be like a breath of fresh air compared to the eternal stench from the swamp Washington has been sinking into.