Belt and Road Investment Increases by 75% in 2025. Construction contracts and investments in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, increased by three-quarters in 2025 to a record $213 billion. The latest figures estimate total BRI engagement at $1.4 trillion, according to a study conducted by Australia’s Griffith University and the Green Finance & Development Center in Shanghai, which Construction Briefing […]
Read moreThe World Economic Forum in Davos opens this year in the midst of an accelerating disintegration of the institutions of the post-war world order, and of the increasingly irrelevant WEF itself. Violations of international law, including by the western powers which claim to own it, are not new, but U.S. President Trump has now declared it officially defunct, for his […]
Read moreAt the EIR Emergency Roundtable on Jan. 12, dedicated to reversing the breakdown of international law, a valuable contribution to the discussion was given by Naledi Pandor, the former Foreign Minister of South Africa, who had led her country’s delegation at the hearings of the International Court of Justice on South Africa’s complaint against Israel for genocide (cf. SAS 2-6/24). […]
Read moreAt the EIR Emergency Roundtable, former U.S. Ambassador Chas Freeman, who had a long career in diplomacy, intelligence, and government, brought up what could be done as an alternative to get around the blocks that have been set up in the United Nations. “Peace in Ukraine would benefit the entire world, but it alone would not cure the manifest infirmities […]
Read moreThe confrontation between the Trump administration and the Federal Reserve has escalated to unprecedented levels. On Jan. 9, the Department of Justice (DOJ) served subpoenas to the Federal Reserve relating to a probe into the cost of renovating the central bank’s headquarters. Contrary to tradition, Fed chairman Jerome Powell, who has refused to lower interest rates, decided to respond publicly […]
Read moreDonald Trump’s threats to impose trade tariffs of 10%, as of February 1, and 25% as of July, on European countries opposing his Greenland policy have dealt a huge blow to the already shaken transatlantic cohesion. It will be further weakened if the EU decides in the coming days to launch counter tariffs. A full-scale trade war on the backdrop […]
Read moreThe just-completed modern Budapest-Belgrade railway is a flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Balkans. Built in cooperation with China Railway International and China Communications Construction Company, the 350 km long line will allow speeds of up to 220 km/h, cutting travel time from eight hours to just over three hours. On the Serbian side, the […]
Read moreThe White House released on Jan. 16 a document described as Phase Two of Washington’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict”. It specifies new international entities to be created, including a Board of Peace, a Gaza Executive Board, an International Stabilization Force, etc. But nowhere does the document even name or identify Palestine or Palestinians. While the idea of […]
Read moreThe danger of gang-counter gang violence in the United States over immigration has increased dramatically in the wake of demonstrations over the murder of a protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota. President Trump now threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act if protests continue in the city, which was already polarized by “left” versus “right” violence in May 2020, following the murder of […]
Read moreChina’s famous Fudan University, based in Shanghai, posted a report on the Jan.12 Emergency International Roundtable on Venezuela organized by “the world-renowned magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)”. The Dean of the China Institute at Fudan University, Prof. Zhang Weiwei, was a featured speaker at that event (cf. SAS 03/26). The report points to the global influence of EIR: “The Executive Intelligence […]
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