Tehran will be a key player in Beijing’s multibillion-dollar One Belt, One Road initiative to resurrect the ancient Silk Road with massive international land and sea trade and transit investments. Ground transportation infrastructure flanking Iran’s east and west border as a result of Chinese investment, in addition to access points at the Persian Gulf, […]
Posts Tagged ‘centerpiece’
Axios news agency thinks Iran is the ‘centerpiece’ of China’s One Belt One Road Initiative
July 27th, 2017 Awake Goy
Brexit, the E.U. and the "Special Relationship" of the U.S./U.K.
June 30th, 2016 Awake Goy
Any clique in the E.U. that thinks the U.S. will sit idly by while they “punish” the U.K. had better recalibrate their core interests and the potential for blowback. One constant in a fast-shifting global chess board is the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States. The term special relationship defines a close collaboration diplomatically, […]
Russian runaway APC draws police into midnight cross-country chase (VIDEO)
February 7th, 2016 Awake Goy
The story unfolded in the middle of the night when a police station in Karavaevo, located 130 km southwest of St. Petersburg, received a phone call from local residents, telling them that someone was plowing through their backyard with an APC. Police were quick to dispatch a patrol unit that encountered the APC on a […]