How China’s Belt and Road Took Over the World by Shannon Tiezzi is Editor-in-Chief at The Diplomat.

"By this point, the BRI had lost all semblance of the original Eurasian connection, instead becoming a catch-all for China’s foreign policy in general."

Mexico President Blasts US Billions To Ukraine As "Irrational" - Says Focus On Latin America | Zero Hedge

Lopez Obrador has also frequently taken aim at US sanctions, having just last week linked anti-Cuba and anti-Venezuela sanction to a surge in migrant activity across the region and at the US border. "They (the U.S.) don’t do anything," he said last Friday, according to the Associated Press. "It’s more, a lot more, what they authorize for the war in Ukraine than what they give to help with poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean."

He called on US leaders "to remove blockades and stop harassing independent and free countries, an integrated plan for cooperation so the Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Ecuadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans wouldn’t be forced to emigrate."

This Is The Worst Global Food Crisis In Modern History, And It Is About To Go To An Entirely New Level BY Michael | The Economic Collapse Blog

The government of India responded to this crisis by banning the export of non-basmati white rice, but this has created a massive problem for the dozens of countries that rely on rice exports from India…

More than three billion people worldwide rely on rice as a staple food and India contributed to about 40% of global rice exports.

Six Reasons Why Corporate Profits Will Fall 50% by Charles Hugh Smith

 

Six Reasons Why Corporate Profits Will Fall 50%

1. Reversion to the mean.

2. The Boost phase of Globalization has ended.

3. Quality and durability have been gutted.

4. Hyper-financialization has also entered the decay-collapse phase.

5. The asymmetric distribution of the economy's output favoring corporations at the expense of labor is finally shifting.

6. Debt saturation.

Escobar: Welcome To The 'De-Westernization Movement' by Pepe Escobar | The Cradle

In a broader context, Putin made clear that “the global economy has changed and continues to change; the west, with its own hands, is destroying the system of trade and finance that it itself created.”   

Wang Wen could not but highlight the breakthrough represented by the Huawei Mate 60 Pro: “Sanctions are not such a bad thing. They only strengthen the “de-westernization movement,” as it is informally referred to in China.

“Mad Max” Conditions Are Coming: Desperation Is Rising As The Economy Rapidly Deteriorates And Food Costs Soar September 3, 2023 by Michael Snyder | The Economic Collapse Blog

 

Henry C. Carey's Practical Economics by David A. Cowan | The American Conservative