<html><head></head><body dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="ApplePlainTextBody">“...EU trade with China, India, Japan, South Korea and all of Southeast Asia is already larger by US$300 billion a year than EU trade with the US.<br><br>"And this is happening even before the EU has granted 'market economy' status to China, and before the just-signed free-trade agreement with Japan.<br><br>"The New Silk Roads, renamed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), with their promise of total Eurasian connectivity, are a certified win-win as far as German industrialists and selected EU investors are concerned. In contrast, in US Think Tankland, the overwhelming tone of the analyses is to deride BRI as a ‘scheme' destined to fail…<br><br>"It’s unclear whether Macron has imprinted on the mind of The American Friend [Pres. Trump] that having Syria jihadi-free, together, makes total business sense – and opens the way to further business deals, on all fronts. Of course, assuming the current and future ceasefires hold, and rogue deep-state elements do not disrupt the scenario.<br><br>"So now it’s back to the swamp – and the same old hysterical Russiagate 24/7…”<br><br>http://www.atimes.com/article/sun-king-american-friend//<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></body></html>