A sleeping giant awakens (Pepe Escobar, Arab News)

Consumed by myriad manifestations of its existential crisis, as usual the West neglected or underestimated the biggest show in Chinese politics: The famous “two sessions” — of the People’s Political Consultative Conference and the National People’s Congress, the top legislative body — which ended up approving China’s 13th Five-Year Plan.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/911046

So Why Is There a «New Cold War»? (Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture Foundation)

«Sometimes I wonder if it’s 2016 or if we live in 1962». What Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told 60 foreign and defense ministers at the 52nd Munich Security Conference this past Saturday was hardly news.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/02/19/so-why-is-there-a-new-cold-war.html

Waiting for Perfect Storm (Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture Foundation)

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/01/31/waiting-for-perfect-storm.html

Silk Dragon Takes Persian Road (Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture Foundation)

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/01/27/silk-dragon-takes-persian-road.html

Planet of Fear (Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture Foundation)

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/01/19/planet-of-fear.html