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		All the world is a stage across the Ancient Silk Road.  Pepe 
		Escobar, Strategic Culture, 10/22/2025.
 
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		Two foreign guys walk into a barber shop in Xinjiang…  Pepe 
		Escobar, Strategic Culture, 10/16/2025.
 
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		Art, Trade and State power at the heart of the Silk Road.  Pepe 
		Escobar, Strategic Culture, 10/14/2024.
 
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		Xi Unites World Leaders Sick of Being Pushed Around by Trump. 
		Bloomberg News, 9/4/2025.
 
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		Modi Hugs Putin and Hails Russia Ties in Defiance of Trump.  
		Bloomberg News, 9/1/2025.
 
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		Why China won’t call a ‘tariff-wielding barbarian’.  Pepe 
		Escobar, Strategic Culture, 4/12/2025.
 
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		‘Break-a-Leg’ (that old Mafia warning) – Trump has threatened Iran over 
		an ultimatum that likely cannot be met. Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture, 
		4/7/2025.
 
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		The “king-makers” pull the rug from Syria, yet again… A “Greek tragedy” 
		begins.  Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture, 12/23/2024.
 
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		A new geo-political map is unfolding – The end of Syria (and of 
		“Palestine” for now).  Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture, 
		12/16/2024.
 
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		Erdogan’s Idlib shock shadows “Kursk”.  Alastair Crooke, 
		Strategic Culture, 12/6/2024.
 
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		The Syria riddle: How it may turn into the First BRICS War .  
		Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture, 12/4/2024.
 
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		The Long War to reaffirm Western and Israeli primacy undergoes a 
		shape-shift.  Alastair Crooke, Stategic Culture, 
		12/2/2024. 
 
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		►Desperate 
		Escalations in Middle East & Ukraine - Alastair Crooke, Alexander 
		Mercouris & Glenn Diesen, 12/1/2024.
 
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		How Russia and China are rewiring Greek mythology.  Pepe 
		Escobar, Strategic Culture, 11/29/2024.
 
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		Trump may be Oreshniked on Ukraine even before he gets to China.  
		Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture, 11/27/2024.
 
		- 
		G20 
		knocks out G7 agendas.  Pepe Escobar. The Cradle, 
		11/22/2024.
 
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		The BRICS spirit: alive and well in South Africa.  Pepe 
		Escobar, Strategic Culture, 11/20/2024.
 
		- 
		Megaport opens 
		up Latin America to Chinese trade as US looks on.  Robert 
		Plummer, BBC, 11/15/2024.
 
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		There are no “Easy Wars” left to fight, but do not mistake the longing 
		for one.  Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture, 11/15/2024.
 
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		Is the West Heading for Civilisational Collapse?  Peter Heather 
		and John Rapley, NovaraMedia, 11/10/2024.
 
		- 
		
		BRICS and the White Man’s Burden: The era of ‘civilizing the savages’ is 
		over.  Constantin von Hoffmeister, RT, 11/1/2024.
 
		- 
		
		The roadblocks ahead for the Sovereign Harmonious Multi-Nodal World.  
		Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture, 10/31/2024.
 
		- 
		
		BRICS bank a fairer system than IMF – top academic.  RT, 
		10/14/2024.
 
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		Multi-polarity: A New Alignment?  By Jerry Harris, 8/22/2024.
 
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		A $2 Trillion Reckoning Looms as Ports Become Pawns in Geopolitics. 
		Bloomberg, 8/20/2024
 
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		India and Iran sign long-term port deal.  RT, 5/13/2024.
 
		- 
		Tensions Between 
		Israel & the US - Alastair Crooke, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen. 
		 The Duran, 5/12/2024.
 
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		The Russia–Iran–China search for a new global security order.  
		By Pepe Escobar, The Cradle, 5/3/2024.
 
		- 
		
		The Interlocking of Strategic Paradigms.  By Alastair Crooke,
		Strategic Culture, 4/29/2024.
 
		- 
		Bad cop Blinken to 
		deliver ultimatum to China.  The Duran, 4/23/2024.
 
		- 
		
		Year of the Dragon: Silk Roads, BRICS Roads, Sino-Roads.  By Pepe Escobar. Strategic 
		Culture, 1/12/2024.
 
		- 
		
		Something Lost, Never to Be Found Again.  By Alastair Crooke, 
		Strategic Culture, 1/8/2024.
 
		- 
		
		Russia – China Are on a Roll.  By Pepe Escobar. Strategic 
		Culture, 12/26/2023.
 
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		Now More Than Ever We Need a True Philosopher of Civilization.  
		By Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture, 12/22/2023.
 
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		China And Brazil Strike Deal To Ditch The US Dollar.  By Tyler 
		Durden, ZeroHedge, 3/30/2023.
 
		- 
		
		Eurasian Integration Including Iran Proceeds Despite US “Maximum 
		Pressure” Campaign.  By Conor Gallagher, nakedcapitalism, 
		3/22/2023.
 
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		In Moscow, Xi and Putin bury Pax Americana.  By Pepe Escobar,
		The Cradle, 3/22/2022.
 
		- 
		
		Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Will Deal A Deathblow To The Dollar.  
		By Andrew Korybko,  ZeroHedge, 3/18/2023.
 
		- 
		
		Geopolitical game changer: China’s Iran-Saudi peace deal is big blow to 
		petrodollar and US economic hegemony.  By Ben Norton, G/E, 
		3/17/2023
 
		- 
		
		Raisi in Beijing: Iran-China strategic plans go full throttle.  
		By Pepe Escobar, The Cradle, 2/17/2023.
 
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		Can You Smell What the Year of the Rabbit Is Cooking?  By Pepe 
		Escobar, Strategic Culture, 1/24/2023.
 
		- 
		Xi of Arabia and 
		the petroyuan drive.  By Pepe Escobar, The Cradle, 
		12/16/2022.
 
		- 
		Goodbye G20, hello 
		BRICS+.  By Pepe Escobar, The Cradle, 11/17/2022.
 
		- 
		‘Culture 
		Block’ Is Leading to Ukraine Escalation (and risking WWIII).  
		By Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture, 11/14/2022.
 
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		INSTC:  Sputnik-IRNA meeting.  11/28/2022 [in Farsi]
 
		- 
		‘Peaceful 
		modernization’: China’s offering to the Global South.  By Pepe 
		Escobar, The Cradle, 10/20/2022.
 
		- 
		Going to Samarkand.  
		By Pepe Escobar, 7/31/2022.
 
		- 
		American 
		Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama.  By Michael Hudson, The Saker, 
		7/29/2022.
 
		- 
		Putin 
		and Xi’s Bet on the Global South.  By Gerald F. Seib, The 
		Wall Street Journal, 7/15/2022.
 
		- 
		In Eurasia, the 
		War of Economic Corridors is in full swing.  By Pepe Escobar,
		The Cradle, 7/15/2022.
 
		- 
		The 
		New Economy in China: The Past 20 Years and the Next 20 Years.  
		By Eric Li, Read China, 6/21/2022
 
		- 
		St. Petersburg 
		sets the stage for the War of Economic Corridors.  By Pepe 
		Escobar,  The Cradle, 6/18/2022.
 
		- 
		The 
		Meridian Highway Rerouted.  6/10/2022.
 
		- 
		Eurasia 
		& the Epochal Decline in US Global Power.  By Alfred McCoy, 
		Consortium News, 1/21/2022.
 
		- 
		China 
		launches cooperation deal with Iran, rebukes US unilateral sanctions. 
		The Hill, 1/15/2022.
 
		- 
		‘Greater 
		Eurasia’: Belt & Road expands in Africa.  By Scott Foster, 
		Asia Times, 12/28/2021.
 
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		Exit Nord Stream 2, Enter Power of Siberia 2.  By Pepe Escobar,
		Strategic Culture, 12/23/2021.
 
		- 
		Countries 
		involved in Iran’s Persian Gulf-Black Sea transit corridor initiative 
		close to approval of agreement- Embassy.  11/19/2021.
 
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		Xi’s new Communist Manifesto.  By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 
		11/15/2021.
 
		- 
		China-Iran 
		25-year deal not aimed at any country: Iranian envoy.  
		5/15/2021.
 
		- 
		China’s 
		Big New Idea.  By Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 
		1/14/2021.
 
		- 
		The 
		Living Dead Pax Americana.  By Pepe Escobar, Strategic 
		Culture, September 29, 2021.
 
		- 
		Eurasian 
		consolidation ends the US unipolar moment.  By Pepe Escobar,
		Asia Times, September 22, 2021.
 
		- 
		What 
		US Defeat in Afghanistan Means for China.  By Alfred W. McCoy,
		Consortiumnews, September 15, 2021.
 
		- 
		Inside 
		US Afghanistan pullout, CIA opium ratline, pipeline conflict, new cold 
		war.  Pepe Escobar in conversation with Ben Norton and Max 
		Blumenthal, GrayZone, August 21, 2021.
 
		- 
		 BRI 
		vs New Quad for Afghanistan’s coming boom.  By Pepe Escobar,
		Asia Times, 6/26/2019.
 
		- 
		Raisi 
		era will move Iran closer to Russia and China.  By Pepe 
		Escobar, Asia Times, 6/22/2021.
 
		- 
		An 
		empire in love with its Afghan cemetery.  By Pepe Escobar, 
		Asia Times, 5/6/2021.
 
		- 
		China’s 
		digital yuan displaces the dollar.  By David Goldman, Asia 
		Times, 4/21/2021.
 
		- 
		The 
		US Dollar’s Hegemony is Looking Fragile.  By Kenneth Rogoff,
		The Guardian, 4/10/2021
 
		- 
		Iran-China 
		deal: Is a new grand strategy brewing in Washington?  By Marco Carnelos, Middle-East Eye, 4/19/2021.
 
		- 
		China-Iran 
		pact boosts Pakistan’s trade hub dream.  By FM Shakil, Asia 
		Times, 4/18/2021.
 
		- 
		China-Iran 
		pact more than meets the eye.  By MK Bhadrakumar, Asia 
		Times, 4/2/2021.  Part III.
 
		- 
		China 
		playing the long game in the Middle East.  By MK Bhadrakumar, Asia 
		Times, 4/4/2021.  Part II.
 
		- 
		The 
		China-Iran pact is a game-changer.  By MK Bhadrakumar, Asia 
		Times, 4/2/2021.  Part I.
 
		- 
		China, 
		With $400 Billion Iran Deal, Could Deepen Influence in Mideast.  
		By Farnaz Fassihi and Steven Lee Myers, The New York Times, 
		3/27/2021.
 
		- 
		Foreign 
		Correspondent: What’s Really Going on with China’s Uighurs?  
		By Reese Ehrlich, The Progressive, 3/13/2021.
 
		- 
		Re-listing 
		of Chinese telecoms shows China is too big to boycott.  By 
		David Goldman, Asia Times, 1/6/2021.
 
		- 
		Turkey 
		pivots to the center of a New Great Game.  By Pepe Escobar, 
		Asia Times, 12/24/2020.
 
		- 
		China 
		slowly retreating from Pakistan’s Belt and Road.  By FM Shakil,
		Asia Times, 12/24/2020.
 
		- 
		Biggest 
		trade deal in history excludes United States.  By Anya 
		Parampil, The Grayzone, 11/20/2020.
 
		- 
		RCEP 
		set to supercharge the New Silk Roads.  By Pepe Escobar, 
		Asia Times, 11/16/2020.
 
		- 
		Can 
		You Smell What the Chinese Are Cooking?  By Pepe Escobar, 
		Strategic culture Foundation, 10/30/2020.
 
		- 
		Why 
		China is taking over the ‘American century’.  By Dilip Hiro,
		Asia Times, 8/19/2020.
 
		- 
		Iran 
		and Russia to start joint Caspian Sea shipping line.  
		PortsEurope, 8/13/2020.
 
		- 
		Lebanon 
		should look East and abandon the West.  Pepe Escobar, Asia 
		Times, 8/12/2020.
 
		- 
		What 
		the new Iran-China partnership means for the region.  Abdul Basit, AlJazeera, 8/6/2020.
 
		- 
		America’s 
		Unholy Crusade Against China.  By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Project 
		Syndicate, 8/5/2020.
 
		- 
		Trump 
		Reaps the Whirlwind With China/Iran Mega Deal.  Tom Luongo, 
		Gold, Goats N' Guns, 7/8/2020
 
		- 
		Iran 
		is negotiating 25-year strategic accord with China, Zarif says. 
		Middle East Eye, 7/5/2020.
 
		- 
		Asian 
		century began in May 2020.  David P. Goldman, Asia Times, 
		5/21/2020.
 
		- 
		Pandemic 
		Shifts Geopolitical Balance From West to East.  Editorial, 
		Strategic Culture Foundation, 5/15/2020.
 
		- 
		Geopolitics 
		after Covid-19: is the pandemic a turning point?  The 
		Economist, 4/1/2020.
 
		- 
		No 
		Weapon Left Behind: The American Hybrid War on China.  Pepe 
		Escobar, Strategic Culture Foundation, 2/21/2020.
 
		- 
		Why 
		the New Silk Roads are a ‘threat’ to US bloc.  Pepe Escobar,
		Asia Times, 1/23/2020.
 
		- 
		Battle 
		of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration.  Pepe Escobar, 
		Asia Times, 1/16/2020.
 
		- 
		China’s 
		booming new Silk Road trade hits $1.34 TRILLION.  RT, 
		1/15/2020.
 
		- 
		You 
		Say You Want a (Russian) Revolution?  Pepe Escobar, 
		Consortium News, 12/21/2019.
 
		- 
		In 
		the footsteps of Xuanzang in Kyrgyzstan.  Pepe Escobar, 
		Asia Times,12/20/2019.
 
		- 
		Pamir 
		Highway:  the road on the roof of the world.  Pepe 
		Escobar, Asia Times, 12/12/2019.
 
		- 
		China 
		and Russia Are Partners--and Now Have a $55 Billion Pipeline to prove It.  Georgi Kantchev, The Wall Street Journal, 12/1/2019.
 
		- 
		The 
		road toward Greater Eurasia.  Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 
		11/21/2019.
 
		- 
		A 
		blue dot barely visible from New Silk Roads.  Pepe Escobar, 
		Asia Times, 11/7/2019.
 
		- 
		Turning 
		eastward: Iran and China strengthen ties in the face of western pressure.  Rohollah Faghihi, Middle East Eye, 10/5/2019. 
 
		- 
		Iran 
		Is China’s Secret Weapon for Killing off the US Dollar’s Global Reserve 
		Status.  Federico Pieraccini, Strategic Culture Foundation, 
		10/3/19.
 
		- 
		South 
		American Shockwaves Bring the New Silk Road Into the Americas as 
		Neo-Liberal Order Crumbles.  Matthew Ehret, Strategic 
		Culture Foundation, 8/25/2019.
 
		- 
		How 
		Tehran Fits into Russia-China Strategy.  Pepe Escobar, 
		GlobalResearch/Asia Times, 8/13/2019.
 
		- 
		Trump’s 
		Trade War Revives Xi’s Silk Road.  Shuli Ren, Bloomberg, 
		8/13/2019.
 
		- 
		China’s 
		Belt and Road Continues to Win Over Europe While Technocrats Scream and 
		Howl.  Matthew Ehret, Strategic Culture, 4/20/2019.
 
		- 
		China’s 
		road to a win-win ahead of BRI forum.  Pepe Escobar, Asia 
		Times, 4/19/2019.
 
		- 
		China’s 
		European Moment Has Arrived.  Patrick Lawrence, 
		Consortiumnews, 4/1/2019.
 
		- 
		Get 
		over it: Asia rules.  Pepe Escobar,  Asia Times, 
		2/6/2019.
 
		- 
		Why 
		a Medieval Woman Had Lapis Lazuli Hidden in Her Teeth.  Sarah 
		Zhang, The Atlantic, 1/19/2019.
 
		- 
		All 
		under Heaven, China’s challenge to the Westphalian system.  Pepe Escobar,  Asia Times, 1/10/2019.
 
		- 
		Chinese 
		scholar offers insight into Beijing’s strategic mindset.  Pepe 
		Escobar,  Asia Times, 1/5/2019.
 
		- 
		Venezuela: 
		Let’s Cut to the Chase.  Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture, 
		1/2/2019.
 
		- 
		On 
		the road in the Karakoram.  Pepe Escobar,  Asia Times, 
		12/22/2018.
 
		- 
		US 
		Efforts to Halt Eurasian Integration Are Failing Miserably.  
		Federico Pieraccini, Strategic Culture, 11/09/2018.
 
		- 
		Back 
		in the (Great) Game: The Revenge of Eurasian Land Powers.  Pepe Escobar, Consortiumnews, August 29, 2018.
 
		- 
		So 
		what will The Sanctioned supergroup do?  Pepe Escobar, Asia 
		Times, August 17, 2018.
 
		- 
		The 
		mega-machines helping China link the world.  Tom Calver, 
		BBC, July 20, 2019.
 
		- 
		Sanctioning 
		the World, the US Inadvertently ‘Locks & Launches’ Multipolarism.  Alastair 
		Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, May 28, 2018.
 
		- 
		Chinese, 
		Russian Companies Scramble for Iran Business, Beating Out EU.  
		Jason Ditz, antiwar.com, May 28, 2018.
 
		- 
		Blowing 
		Up the Iran Deal Brings Eurasia Closer to Integration.  
		Federico Pieraccini, Strategic Culture Foundation, May 27, 2018.
 
		- 
		China's 
		'New Silk Roads' Reach Latin America.  Pepe Escobar, Asia 
		Times, 2/15/2018.
 
		- 
		China 
		Wins Big as Trump and US Abdicate Global Leadership.  Jim 
		Carey, MintPress, 02/01/2018.
 
		- 
		'Make 
		Trade, Not War' is China's daring plan in the Middle East.  Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 01/18/2018.
 
		- 
		China 
		Is Building Its Second Foreign Military Base In Pakistan Amid US 
		Diplomatic Scandal.  Tylder Durden, ZeroHedge, 
		01/06/2018.
 
		- 
		A 
		Chinese Empire Reborn.  Edward Wong,  The New York 
		Times, 01/05/2018.
 
		- 
		From 
		the Caucasus to the Balkans, China's Silk Roads are rising.  Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 11/30/2017.
 
		- 
		How 
		Turkey, Iran, Russia and India are playing the New Silk Roads.  Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 11/21/2017.
 
		- 
		The 
		New Silk Road will go through Syria.  Pepe Escobar, Asia 
		Times, 7/13/2017.
 
		- 
		China's 
		Silk Road project: A trap or an opportunity?  Richard Javad 
		Heydarian,  AlJazeera, 5/17/2017.
 
		- 
		Book 
		Review:  Is China an Empire?  Zhou Xin, South China 
		Morning Post, 03/13/2017.
 
		- 
		The 
		Political Economy of China's New Silk Road.  Post-Western 
		World, 11/06/2016.
 
		- 
		One 
		Belt, One Road, One Heritage:  Cultural Diplomacy and the Silk Road.  
		Tim Winter, The Diplomat, 03/29/2016.
 
		 
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