Juan Cole Informed Comment Al Jazeera reports that China is attempting to accelerate its already impressive green energy revolution in the face of the disruption of petroleum and natural gas…
Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. There has been an abundance of information around China’s oil strategy of recent, some of it sensible, most of it unremarkably a part of the western…
Carlos Martinez, Orinoco Tribune. Marking milestones in the histories of China and the United States. This week offers a chance to examine two very different visions of the international order.…
Joshua Scheer Is the race for artificial intelligence really about national security—or about preserving corporate power? In this wide-ranging analysis, journalist Ben Norton argues that America’s biggest technology companies are…
Gary Wilson, Struggle – La Lucha. U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth went to Singapore on May 30 with an order for Washington’s allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific: spend…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Ember energy think tank reports the numbers for China’s green energy exports this spring and they are mind-blowing. The Hormuz energy crisis is having predictable…
What is hegemony? Is the United States losing it? Michael Brenner for Consortium News HEGEMONY. “Hegemony, Hegemon everywhere — but not a ‘definition’ in sight.” Talk about American foreign policy…
Consortium News After their summit in Beijing on Wednesday, the Russian and Chinese presidents issued the following communiqué, declaring the failure of neocolonial hegemony and the emergence of a new…
Donald Trump visited Beijing alongside the billionaire CEOs of a dozen top US corporations. His failure to pressure China to meet his demands demonstrated how Washington lost the trade war.…
ScheerPost Staff Drawing on Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson’s stark assessment of Donald Trump’s Beijing summit with Xi Jinping — and the broader collapse of U.S. geopolitical dominance after the disastrous Iran…
Yan Bennett for the Conversation President Donald Trump departed China on May 15, 2026, after a two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping that was scrutinized from every angle for…
Joshua Scheer Donald Trump didn’t arrive in Beijing as the leader of a confident superpower. He arrived like a salesman carrying a collapsing empire on his back — flanked not…
ScheerPost Staff Donald Trump’s high‑stakes trip to Beijing has produced one of the most lopsided diplomatic spectacles in recent memory. As U.S. intelligence quietly concludes that China has emerged from…
Josh Scheer As Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping in Beijing, the world’s two largest powers attempt to choreograph stability atop a decade of escalating economic warfare, military brinkmanship, and mutual…
News Desk, The Cradle. Ahead of high-stakes talks with President Xi. Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and top executives from Nvidia, Qualcomm, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Visa, Boeing, and Meta joined…
