Tag: China
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Tehran: The Hidden Chokepoint in China’s Belt and Road Empire
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is usually described in the language of ports, railways, trade corridors, and development finance. But beneath the concrete and steel sits something far more strategic: a parallel world system designed to reduce China’s exposure to U.S. naval power, U.S. sanctions, and the U.S. dollar. At the center of that system…
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Hormuz, $39 Trillion, and the Gold Question: Is the Petrodollar Cracking?
For half a century, the petrodollar arrangement looked less like a policy choice than a law of nature. Oil was priced in dollars, Gulf exporters recycled surpluses into U.S. assets, Washington provided the security umbrella, and the dollar’s global role fed on itself. The Iran war has reopened a question markets have tried to avoid…
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Great Wealth Migration Accelerates With 35% of HNWIs Eyeing Lower-Tax Havens
deVere Group’s data reveals that over a third of wealthy clients are rethinking their residency for tax relief and stability—part of a deliberate ‘Great Wealth Migration’ from the UK, Europe, and beyond. High-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) are voting with their feet—and fortunes—as global fiscal landscapes shift. New deVere Group findings show that 35% of its 80,000…
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Fire Horse, Steel Nerves: China’s Robot Kung Fu Moment Signals a New Era of “Physical Intelligence”
The Chinese New Year has always been about momentum—families moving, markets moving, fortunes moving. And in 2026, the Year of the Fire Horse arrives with the exact kind of symbolism you’d expect: speed, power, audacity, and an almost stubborn refusal to stand still. This year, that Fire Horse energy didn’t just show up in lanterns…
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Trump Declares National Emergency Over Cuba’s Support for U.S. Adversaries
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday declaring a national emergency over Cuba’s support for what the administration calls “malign actors adverse to the United States.” The order names Russia, China, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. The language is blunt. “Cuba blatantly hosts dangerous adversaries of the United States,” the directive states. It says these actors…
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The Silver Reset Is Here — And Why NI 43-101 Will Decide Whether Canada Can Rise From 14th Place to Compete With the Top Producers
Silver doesn’t reset like a speculative asset.It resets the way a pressure valve releases: slowly at first, then all at once. Industrial demand is no longer optional. Solar, electrification, defense systems, AI hardware, and advanced electronics all depend on silver’s unmatched conductivity. At the same time, mine supply growth has lagged demand for years. This…
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China’s Monetary Flood: Fake Paper, Real Assets
China is quietly executing the largest monetary expansion in its modern history—outside of the COVID emergency years—and the numbers are staggering. China’s M2 money supply has gone vertical, now sitting north of USD $48 trillion in equivalent terms. To put that into perspective, this is more than double the total U.S. M2 money supply. This…
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The Shanghai Silver Benchmark (SHAG): Why China May Now Set the Real Price of Silver
For decades, global silver pricing has been dominated by Western financial centers — primarily London’s LBMA spot pricing and New York’s COMEX futures. But quietly, and steadily, a different pricing center has emerged. One grounded not in leverage and paper contracts, but in physical metal, domestic demand, and real settlement. That center is China. At…
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Canada, Silver, and the Reality No One Else on Earth Can Match
The truth has a way of surfacing when markets stop being polite. And right now, silver is no longer polite. Everyone’s staring at gold like it’s the only adult in the room. Safe haven. Store of value. Central banks cuddling it like a security blanket. Fine. Gold has its place. But silver? Silver is where…