Hormuz: The Reality TV War and China’s Unfortunate Front-Row Seat

Modern war has acquired an odd new feature. It now comes with graphics, dramatic music, and a nightly highlight reel. Precision bombs streak across the screen. Drones glide in cinematic slow motion. Social media fills with grainy infrared footage of things exploding in the desert while commentators nod gravely and say phrases like “escalation dynamics” and “rules-based order.”

When Money Becomes a Weapon: China’s Digital Yuan and the Quiet War for Economic Power

To understand why this matters, you have to strip away the marketing. A CBDC is not “digital cash.” Cash is anonymous, final, and indifferent. A CBDC is programmable, trackable, and conditional. It is issued directly by a central bank, lives on state-controlled rails, and behaves exactly as policy requires it to behave. That makes it extremely attractive to governments that prefer obedience over ambiguity.

Trumping China’s Geopolitical Long Game

Reciprocal Tariffs Are a Stake in the Heart of the Chinese Export Economy Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping was riding high at the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Chinese Communist Party Central Committee back in July 2024. After all, years of Chinese trade surpluses had funded the largest modernization of the People’s Liberation Army …

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