US Sanctions Blow up the Only Competition to China’s Belt and Road India scraps its silk road through Iran project citing US sanction hurdles Pepe Escobar 14 Sep 20 1187 9
The Comical Empire Is This a Joke? US Launches ‘Blue Dot Network’ as Answer to China’s Belt and Road It might as well be Pepe Escobar 9 Nov 19 1778 16
Our Benevolent Empire How to Kill 10 Million Afghans and Not Win Just get out and let the Eurasian powers integrate it as a node of the New Silk Roads Pepe Escobar 25 Jul 19 492 9
Those Pesky Sino-Russians The Peer Competitor to the US Has Now Emerged: The Russia-China Strategic Partnership "A single image epitomizes the hurricane at the center of the current geopolitical chessboard" Pepe Escobar 9 Jun 19 1262 4
Don’t Forget, Iran Has Its Finger on the Oil Doomsday Machine Never mind blocking the Strait of Hormuz, if attacked Iran could outright set oil wells in Saudi, UAE and Kuwait alight with missiles Pepe Escobar 11 Apr 19 1063 0
EU Bills China a “Systemic Rival”, but Xi Got Everything He Wanted From His Euro Trip The economically-anemic EU has no intention of, and can't afford to, miss out on any business with China Pepe Escobar 28 Mar 19 434 0