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Martin Schram

Martin Schram: Xi – a man at a global crossroads

While you have been up to your eyeballs in the gush of breaking news, willful distortions and pathetic panicky lies ever since the historic first-ever arrest of a former American president, the rest of the world has kept right on spinning.

And although you perhaps didn’t notice it, the world outside Trump USA has been quietly making news that may be even more historic. It could change our lives – big-time, for all-time. We may be witnessing the quiet making of yet another, more enduring, New World Order.

It’s not your fault that you missed it. Most of America’s News Deciders apparently think this kind of global news just isn’t exciting enough to become click-bait. So they haven’t made sure you saw it. But let’s just stand back and look at the big picture that is being formed by the latest global events. It is a big picture with just one person at the center of it: No, not Joe Biden. Not Vladimir Putin. And definitely not Donald Trump.

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