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The Illusion of Success: Why the China Tariff Pause Is Not a Victory Red Dragon Files Op-Ed Thought Brief | May 2025 In geopolitics, outcomes matter more than optics. The public may be distracted by headlines and slogans, but markets, manufacturers, and adversaries are watching something else: the numbers. In a global economic confrontation—especially one
The Gathering Storm Series: Epilogue: The World Reconsiders Empires often fall behind closed doors. This one is breaking in the open. For decades, China promised partnership but delivered control. It sold growth, but extracted dependency. Nations signed the deals. China wrote the terms. One-sided trade. Lopsided influence. A slow erosion of sovereignty disguised as opportunity.
The Gathering Storm Series: Part 10 – The Dragon’s Cracked Scales: Xi Jinping’s Waning Grip Empires don’t fall with a bang. They rot from within.Today’s China—bloated with debt, braced by propaganda, and bruised by unrest—carries all the signs. The illusion of strength endures. But behind the red banners and state slogans, a storm brews within
A Senate Finance Committee report, covered by STAT News, says Pfizer sold $20 billion worth of medicines to Americans in 2019—but claimed no U.S. profit. All income was booked offshore. No federal income tax that year. None in 2018. None in 2020. One lawmaker called it “the largest tax-dodging scheme” in pharmaceutical history. It gets
This country boy sees the Trump Tariffs as plain and straightforward – righting wrongs. If not now, when and at what price? Prices go up, and some call it a hidden tax. However, the only goods affected are those we buy from nations facing tariffs. Buy American, and there’s no tariff to pay. The real
This is satire, which means it is probably not funny, but I wanted to play on being in the room where it happened—or should we say nothing new happened? Bob Seger once crooned, “There are some things I wish I didn’t know now that I didn’t know then.” This might top the list. The ceasefire,
