Trump’s New Target of Trade War: Chinese Merchant Fleet and Shipyards

 

Trump’s New Target of Trade War: Chinese Merchant Fleet and Shipyards By Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz As of 2023, China has reached a capacity of around 430 million DWT, accounting for 18.7% of the world’s fleet. This rate was 2.7% for the US. On the other hand, Chinese-built ships accounted for half of the global shipbuilding market share in 2024 and 71% of 2025 orders. Read here

Video: “Wiping Gaza Off the Map”: Big Money Agenda. Confiscating Palestine’s Maritime Natural Gas Reserves By Felicity Arbuthnot and Prof Michel Chossudovsky Israel has launched an invasion (October 7, 2023) of the Gaza Strip. As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 10 years ago in a December, 30 2013 article: “Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, “If All Goes to Plan.” Read here

The Trump Administration Issues a Fake “True Origins of COVID 19” for Public Misinformation. “Pinning Everything on China.” Emanuel Pastreich By Emanuel Pastreich The Trump administration has released its own bombshell about COVID-19 which turns out to be only refried conspiracy theories and which avoids discussion of the role of the US military, multinational banks and pharmaceutical firms, DARPA, Israel, and the World Economic Forum. Read here

Waiting on Xi Jinping. “Aggressive Containment Strategy.” Mike Whitney By Mike Whitney The purpose of President Trump’s tariff policy is not what he says it is. If the goal of the tariffs was to reindustrialize the country and create more jobs in manufacturing, the announcement would have been accompanied by an industrial policy that would outline a coordinated government effort to rebuild America’s critical industries. Read here

The Next Crisis “Bigger Than COVID”: Paralysis of Power Supply, Communications, Transportation. The WEF “Cyber Attack” Scenario, “Usher In the Great Reset” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky The World Economic Forum (WEF) which represents the Western financial elites, played a key role in the launching of the March 11, 2020 corona lockdown, which was conducive to a worldwide process of economic and social chaos. And now they are “promising” us a crisis which is “much worse than COVID.” Read here

Political West Wants to See the Global South Burn. Drago Bosnic By Drago Bosnic The one and only opportunity for the Global South is multipolarity. At least 44 countries have expressed interest in joining BRICS, the world’s leading multipolar organization. Unsurprisingly, virtually all of them are in the Global South. Unsurprisingly, those who wish to preserve the so-called “rules-based world order” also seek to sabotage the rapidly growing multipolar one, so anything goes for them. Read here

Donald Trump and the Shadow of McCarthyism. Ron Unz By Ron Unz Last month the Trump Administration launched an unprecedented assault against academic and intellectual freedom in America, targeting many of our most elite institutions of higher education. Read here