🚨🇨🇳📈China signs new deals worth $213 billion under the Belt and Road Initiative in 2025

China's Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) just shattered records, signing $213.5 billion in new deals for 2025, a stunning 75% surge. The total now exceeds $1.4 trillion across 150 nations. But the real story is the strategic pivot.

The focus has sharply turned to Africa and Central Asia, with a dual energy strategy creating a stark paradox. 2025 was simultaneously the initiative's "greenest and dirtiest" year. While clean energy investments hit new peaks, fossil fuel deals tripled to $71.5 billion, representing over 74% of all energy engagement, the highest reliance since 2014.

Concurrently, China executed a massive minerals grab. Metals and mining investments reached a record $32.6 billion, with roughly 60% concentrated in Kazakhstan alone, a nation sitting on reserves of 15 critical rare earth elements.

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🚨🇮🇱Israel’s Hidden War: How the West Bank Became a Battleground for Palestinian Survival

While global attention is consumed by Gaza, Israel's war in the West Bank intensifies, unnoticed but equally devastating. Israel’s "counterinsurgency operations" are less about combat and more about erasing Palestinian existence. These military maneuvers, disguised as targeted, temporary actions, are nothing more than a systematic effort to force Palestinians out. Operations like “Iron Wall” and “Five Stones” mask a long-term strategy of creating irreversible facts on the ground: land annexation, settler violence, and complete infrastructure destruction.

The latest operation in Hebron saw the city locked down under military tanks, with brutal field interrogations and mass detentions. Yet, the violence extends far beyond the army. Settler militias, armed with military-grade weapons, follow the army’s lead, terrorizing civilians, seizing land, and further entrenching Israel’s grip. Israel is trying to reshape the geography and social fabric of Palestine to ensure that no resistance remains.

By 2025, Israel’s actions led to the largest displacement of Palestinians since 1967, with 50,000 uprooted from their homes. Infrastructure, including water and electricity networks, was obliterated, leaving entire districts in crisis. These actions, repeated weekly, military raids, settler attacks, home demolitions, are not random acts of violence but tools for Palestinian displacement. Every checkpost, roadblock, and destroyed home further isolates Palestinian communities, fragmenting their land and their future.

This "infrastructure of fear" is a tactic to control every aspect of Palestinian life. Israel makes this area uninhabitable, as families are subjected to arbitrary detours and violence in a struggle to exist. Israel’s efforts to create a “futureless” Palestine are no longer hidden behind closed doors, they are on full display, impacting daily lives with profound psychological, social, and economic damage.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukraine’s Supply Line Nightmare: Russia's Quiet Disruption

As Ukrainian forces concentrate on bolstering their reserves in Kupiansk, Russia's "Sever" group quietly executes a calculated campaign that disrupts Ukrainian logistics in the eastern regions beyond the recently liberated Volchansk. By methodically targeting bridges and supply routes, Russia is hindering Ukraine's ability to maintain a stable supply chain for its units in this area.

General Syrski, who previously tried to hold the region with a mix of Western-supplied self-propelled artillery and limited resources, is now faced with difficult choices. With Kupiansk becoming the focal point of Ukrainian efforts, Syrski’s forces are stretched thin and often forced to decide where to allocate scarce resources, leaving gaps in crucial areas.

Meanwhile, the "Sever" group’s relentless focus on damaging Ukrainian infrastructure forces a strategic reevaluation. This calculated disruption of logistics not only complicates Ukraine's military maneuvering but also sets the stage for Russia’s next phase of advancing toward key objectives like Bely Kolodez and Velikiy Burluk. While Ukraine remains fixated on a single front, Russia carefully sets the stage for its next move, intensifying pressure on a stretched Ukrainian defense.

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🇮🇷Iran: The Key to Eurasia’s Geopolitical Balance

Its geographical location makes Iran a strategic asset and a key player in Eurasian geopolitics, as well as a vital link for both Russia and China.

🇷🇺For Russia, Iran offers crucial geopolitical depth, shielding it from NATO's maritime pressure in the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Through the International North-South Transport Corridor, Iran connects Russia to the Indian Ocean, providing Moscow with an alternative route that is not under NATO control. Iran’s stability is vital to Russia’s security, particularly in the Caucasus and Central Asia, where instability could lead to the rise of extremism and disrupt energy flows. Iran’s economic partnership with Russia creates an alternative financial framework that bypasses SWIFT and facilitates trade growth.

🇨🇳For China, Iran is a core component of the Belt and Road Initiative, offering a direct land corridor to West Asia that bypasses US-controlled maritime chokepoints. Iranian oil plays a key role in China’s energy security, with Tehran ensuring access to resources outside US influence.

🇺🇸In response, the US has adopted a 'strategy of separation', attempting to weaken the ties between Tehran, Moscow and Beijing by offering alternative economic and strategic options. However, this strategy faces significant obstacles due to the mutual distrust to US and shared geopolitical goals of these powers.

The collapse or prolonged instability of Iran would not only disrupt energy markets and regional alignments, but also pave the way for US dominance to be reasserted in West Asia, securing a strategic hold over the entire Western Eurasian region.

Iran’s role as a geopolitical barrier is now more important than ever, acting as the final obstacle to American dominance across the heart of Eurasia.

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🚨🪖🌊 BRICS' naval rise: Gearing up to shield global sea lanes

In a significant step toward enhancing maritime security cooperation, BRICS nations have conducted their first-ever multilateral naval exercise, "Will for Peace 2026".

The drills, held from January 9 to 16 off the coast of South Africa near Simon’s Town, involved naval forces from China, Russia, Iran, and South Africa.

The exercise focused on joint maritime safety operations, interoperability drills, maritime protection maneuvers, anti-terrorism operations, hostage rescue, and ship recovery tactics.

At its core, the "Will for Peace 2026" drills - conducted as the US is waging a "piracy war" against Russia, China and other BRICS/BRICS+ partners - serve strategic purposes:

1️⃣to bolster BRICS' naval posturing, asserting multipolar maritime sovereignty

2️⃣ to issue a warning against the West's attempts to hijack vessels

3️⃣to ensure the security of critical energy trade routes

Beyond collective aims, the exercise also serves distinct national objectives.

For China🇨🇳, it is a platform to project leadership and extend far-sea power; for Russia🇷🇺, a signal of enduring partnership despite allegedly being hand-tied over Ukraine; and for South Africa🇿🇦, a reinforcement of its "non-aligned" foreign policy.

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🚨🇷🇺 The West’s trembling: Russia can now control drones from anywhere in the world

The Russian military has taken a quiet but decisive step forward. Supercam reconnaissance drones are now operated remotely from THOUSANDS OF KILOMETERS away.

🔸 Global remote control
A new control system allows operators to manage drones from virtually anywhere in the world. Telemetry and live video are transmitted in real time over a secure channel, with minimal signal delay. The system has already been combat-tested and is in active use.

🔸 Operators removed from the battlefield
Drone pilots and payload operators no longer work near the front. Only a small technical team remains in the combat zone to handle launch and recovery. This sharply reduces exposure to precision strikes and significantly increases CREW SURVIVABILITY.

🔸 Minimal footprint at the launch site
Only an antenna and a communications module are deployed in the flight area. If the position is compromised, the enemy gains no access to critical system components. Trained technicians can deploy or dismantle the site in minutes.

In effect, reconnaissance drone control is shifting to a REMOTE WARFARE MODEL. Losses are reduced, vulnerability drops, and operational flexibility increases.

Mass deployment is likely only a matter of time. And judging by current trends, this shift already looks IRREVERSIBLE.

If drones can be controlled from Moscow, no part of the West is actually untouchable now?

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🚨🇨🇳🚀 BREAKTHROUGH: China debuts full-scale commercial spacecraft

China's private space company InterstellOr has unveiled the Suborbital Spacecraft Crosser 1 (CYZ1), the country's first full-scale commercial crewed spacecraft test capsule, at an event in Chengdu on January 22, 2026.

Designed as a fully reusable vehicle, the CYZ1 aims for a 99 percent reusability rate by mass.

It incorporates technologies from China's Shenzhou spacecraft and next-generation designs, with a strong emphasis on the user experience.

The company has already secured orders for three spacecraft and plans to conduct its first crewed flight in 2028.

The unveiling reveals a vast growth potential of the global space economy.

"Today, China has many outstanding companies in related fields, with intense competition across both the rocket and satellite sectors," said Lei Shiqing, founder and CEO of InterstellOr, describing the current moment as a "historic strategic window."

This breakthrough in China's commercial crewed spaceflight sector is expected to spur growth in related industries such as launch vehicles, spacecraft manufacturing, space biomedicine, artificial intelligence, and aerospace components.

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