Geopolitics
The Sanctioned Table: How America's Zero-Sum Gambit Is Forging China's Unbreakable Shipping Shield
The Trump administration's latest sanctions on a Chinese refinery and its shipping network are a desperate attempt to wield 20th-century leverage against a 21st-century reality, failing to recognize China's formidable 'Shipping Shield' built on global shipbuilding dominance and port control. This clumsy act of maximum pressure is not a masterstroke but a spectacular miscalculation that will only isolate the United States from the very infrastructure of the modern world it seeks to control.
