Category: China and Asia

American AI Domination? Not So Fast.

US Tech Oligarchs, Bankers, and Lawyers Fed Their Greed with a Closed-Source Shakedown. China Built the Alternative.

Not an AI Cold War: Rather, A Market Rotation in Favor of China.

How U.S. Policy and Greed Broke America’s AI Empire in Twelve Months

The Kimi K3 Reckoning: The AI IPOs Didn’t See It Coming

Moonshot’s Kimi K3 beat U.S. rivals on coding benchmarks and price, exposing the political protection behind American AI IPOs.

The G7’s Relevance Problem: How Russia, China, India, and South Korea See the Club They’re Not In

Russia, China, India, and South Korea see a G7 whose shrinking GDP share and closed membership no longer match global power or demographics.

South Korea’s Donghak Ants in a Burning House

A Stock Market Frenzy and the Financialized Endgame Every Western Economy Should Fear, Instead of Intentionally Spreading to Asia

The Bahrain Parable: A Cautionary Tale for South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand

Bahrain accepted Fifth Fleet risks and a dollar peg, then faced a 134% debt burden and Washington’s withdrawal of its guarantees.

America Owns the Seas. So They’re Bombing Iranian and Chinese Railroads.

The Iran war is not about nuclear weapons or regime change. It is about who controls the trade arteries between Russia, China, India and the Middle East.

The Iran War’s Hidden Toll on Asia-Pacific: A War of Choice, a Region in Collapse, and a Bill Every American Will Pay

Hormuz disruption is driving fuel, food, debt, and supply shocks from Southeast Asia to U.S. consumers, threatening nearly two billion people.

Dear South Korea, You Have Been Diagnosed with a Fatal American Dependency Cancer

Seoul should get on the phone with Canada, Japan, China, India, Brazil and the Gulf. The symptoms are identical, and so is the prognosis.

Neocons, China, and the New Bipartisan Lunacy

From Vietnam to Ukraine to Taiwan, the same method recurs: arm a proxy, inflate the threat, then wreck any settlement that would end the war.