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Wie China sich gegen einen Ölausfall wappnete
22.04.2026, 11:31 Uhr. NachDenkSeiten – Die kritische Website - https: - Die andauernde Sperrung der Straße von Hormus führt zu einem erheblichen Ausfall von Öl- und Gaslieferungen und fügt der Weltwirtschaft damit großen Schaden zu. Doch wie sieht es in China aus? Ist das industrielle Schwergewicht durch ausbleibende Erdölimporte schwer getroffen oder gar am Ende? Jenseits aller dramatischen...
China Loads Up On US Chip Tools Via Southeast Asia Amid Supply Chain Shift
22.04.2026, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Loads Up On US Chip Tools Via Southeast Asia Amid Supply Chain Shift China's imports of chipmaking equipment from Malaysia and Singapore rose sharply in 2025 to surpass those from the US, which sank to an eight-year low, an analysis by Nikkei Asia has found - even as American companies remain a vital source of advanced tools for the country. While...
South Korea Curbs Syringe Hoarding As Iran War Cripples Supply
22.04.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - South Korea Curbs Syringe Hoarding As Iran War Cripples Supply The downstream consequences from the Hormuz closure are popping up in the most unexpected places. According to Bloomberg, South Korea’s health regulators are stepping in to curb syringe hoarding as supply chain disruptions tied to the Middle East conflict threaten the availability of...
US, Philippines Launch Their 'Biggest Ever' Balikatan Drills With Large Japanese Contingent
22.04.2026, 03:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US, Philippines Launch Their 'Biggest Ever' Balikatan Drills With Large Japanese Contingent Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US and the Philippines on Monday launched what’s being billed as the "biggest ever" Balikatan Exercise, an annual military drill that, for the first time, includes a significant contingent of Japanese troops as...
Whistleblower Says CIA Hid 2020 Election Threats To Help Biden
21.04.2026, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistleblower Says CIA Hid 2020 Election Threats To Help Biden For years, Democrats and the mainstream media treated 2020 as settled history: the system worked, the election was secure, and accusations of fraud were conspiracy theories. However, a newly declassified intelligence memo, paired with fresh whistleblower allegations, points in a less convenient...
China Doesn’t Always Win When the U.S. Loses
21.04.2026, 23:00 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The Iran war exposes the limits of zero-sum thinking about great powers....
Gold Vs An Erupting Financial Volcano
21.04.2026, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Vs An Erupting Financial Volcano Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Below, we look soberly at the historical case of gold in the backdrop of current headlines and a global financial system nearing an eruption moment. Although the catalysts of oil, war, bond dysfunction, and bloated stocks may seem modern and unique, the current...
Trump Cryptically References US Intercepted Chinese 'Gift' To Iran
21.04.2026, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Cryptically References US Intercepted Chinese 'Gift' To Iran President Trump made an interesting and somewhat cryptic China reference in a series of Tuesday morning Iran-related statements, given to CNBC. He stated that US forces recently intercepted a vessel carrying what he described as a "gift" from China to Iran as Tehran seeks to rebuild...
The High Man In The Castle
21.04.2026, 16:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The High Man In The Castle By Michael Every of Rabobank The world is again waiting to see what comes out of US-Iran peace talks in Pakistan as the two-week ceasefire deadline looms. Again, it’s a binary outcome: war, with threatened strikes on bridges and power plants in Iran, then perhaps regionally, and an extended closure of Hormuz; or peace, and...
How The Iranian Regime Destroyed Its Economy... Long Before The War
21.04.2026, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How The Iranian Regime Destroyed Its Economy... Long Before The War Authored by Daniel Lacalle, As negotiations edge towards a ceasefire, Tehran is trying to blame the country’s economic collapse on the war and foreign pressure. Yet the data tell a different story: Iran’s economy was already structurally broken before the war. Years of ideological...
Data Centers Drove Half Of All Growth In US Electricity Use In 2025
21.04.2026, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Data Centers Drove Half Of All Growth In US Electricity Use In 2025 Global electricity demand rose by 3% in 2025, with growth nearly triple compared to the 1.3% increase in total energy consumption, as data centers and electric vehicles continued to push power use higher, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report on Monday. Overall global...
Eskalation im Krieg NATO/EU gegen Russland – China weist Vorwürfe zurück
21.04.2026, 09:38 Uhr. tkp.at - https: - Russland droht mit Angriffen auf europäische Drohnenfabriken, wegen verstärkten Angriffen aus der Ukraine tief in russische Gebiete. China weist US-Vorwürfe im UN Sicherheitsrat scharf zurück. Angesichts des Krieges der USA gegen den Iran und die dadurch verursachte weltweite Energie- und Wirtschaftskrise ist der zweite US-Krieg in der Ukraine etwas...
Beyond Chips: U.S. And China Enter Robotaxi Race As Physical AI Emerges
21.04.2026, 02:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beyond Chips: U.S. And China Enter Robotaxi Race As Physical AI Emerges Last week, Goldman analysts led by Mark Delaney laid out a detailed roadmap for clients on how autonomous vehicles could reshape America's highways through the 2030s, with a particular focus on "the impact of AI on profit pools." In a separate report, Goldman analysts led by Allen...
US Nuclear Renaissance Finally Starts...? TNC Plans New South Carolina Reactor
21.04.2026, 01:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Nuclear Renaissance Finally Starts...? TNC Plans New South Carolina Reactor The Nuclear Co. (TNC), a startup that emerged from stealth in 2024 as America’s full-stack nuclear project integrator, is preparing to propose one of the first large-scale conventional reactor builds in the United States in more than a decade. According to Bloomberg,...
Kein Ende des Krieges gegen den Iran in Sicht
21.04.2026, 00:10 Uhr. Transition News - https: - Eine neue Phase des Krieges gegen den Iran, statt dessen Ende macht der ehemalige britische Diplomat Alastair Crooke in einem aktuellen Text aus. Er sieht die USA weiter auf Eskalationskurs, bei dem das Endziel die Schwächung Chinas ist. Crooke verwies auf die Aussagen von US-Präsident Donald Trump vom 17. April, wonach die Straße von Hormus offen...
Things Get Interesting-er
20.04.2026, 22:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Things Get Interesting-er Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “It is one thing for the people (of Iran) to be ruled by globally feared autocrats armed to the teeth, but quite another to be governed by humiliated, now impotent incompetents and buffoons.” - VDH Wednesday the US / Iran ceasefire expires. It has been an interesting two weeks. The US...
Schrodinger's Strait, Schrodinger's Market
20.04.2026, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Schrodinger's Strait, Schrodinger's Market By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank Erwin Schrodinger famously proposed a thought experiment to illustrate the apparent absurdity of quantum mechanics when applied to the macroscopic world. In the theoretical experiment, Schrodinger’s eponymous cat, contained in a box with a radioactive...
Irankrieg: Die Ziele der Golfstaaten, Indiens, Chinas und der EU
20.04.2026, 16:33 Uhr. Report24 - https: - Während neue Verhandlungen zwischen den USA und dem Iran vorbereitet werden, sind auch die Kriegsziele anderer Staaten sichtbar geworden. Die arabischen Golfstaaten und Indien setzen auf die Niederlage des Mullah-Regimes. China und die EU hingegen machen den Islamfaschisten die Mauer....
Key Events This Week: Warsh Nomination Hearing, Retail Sales, Fed Blackout, Earnings
20.04.2026, 16:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Warsh Nomination Hearing, Retail Sales, Fed Blackout, Earnings As the war in Iran enters its 8th week, Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid says that recent developments can be framed in two ways: either five steps forward towards peace and three back (seems more apt than three and two), or as evidence that the two sides remain far enough...
Iran Says No Plans For 2nd Talks After US Seizure Of Cargo Ship, Pakistanis Contradict, Oil Prices Climb
20.04.2026, 14:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Says No Plans For 2nd Talks After US Seizure Of Cargo Ship, Pakistanis Contradict, Oil Prices Climb Summary Hormuz latest: Just three ships have crossed in the past 12 hours, shipping data indicates. Iran's military after Sunday's US seizure of Iran-flagged cargo ship: will "take the necessary action against the US military" Vance will try again...
Futures Slide As Oil Jumps On Ceasefire Setbacks, Nasdaq In Danger Of Ending 13-Day Streak
20.04.2026, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide As Oil Jumps On Ceasefire Setbacks, Nasdaq In Danger Of Ending 13-Day Streak Futures are lower, but well off session lows,after a weekend of chaos in the Strait of Hormuz cast doubt over US-Iran peace talks ahead of Tuesday’s ceasefire expiration. On Saturday, Iran said the Strait will be closed until the US blockade is lifted, with...
UK PM Starmer Faces "Judgment Day" Over Epstein Pal Mandelson's Appointment
20.04.2026, 14:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UK PM Starmer Faces "Judgment Day" Over Epstein Pal Mandelson's Appointment UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing for a showdown with the senior official he fired over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, as calls for the prime minister to resign grow. Starmer's decision to appoint veteran Labour politician Peter...
Xi Urges Immediate Opening Of Hormuz Strait For First Time, In Call With Saudi Crown Prince
20.04.2026, 14:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Xi Urges Immediate Opening Of Hormuz Strait For First Time, In Call With Saudi Crown Prince China's President Xi Jinping on Monday demanded the uninterrupted passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz in a phone call with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, state news agency Xinhua reports. He urged the normalization of shipping traffic...
From Leverage To Liability: The Hormuz Strait Is Now Iran's Biggest Weakness
20.04.2026, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Leverage To Liability: The Hormuz Strait Is Now Iran's Biggest Weakness Authored by Daniel Lacalle, For half a century, the Strait of Hormuz was Iran’s weapon. Today, it is its noose. The mathematics of energy have flipped, and with them the balance of coercive power in the Persian Gulf. Iran’s implicit deterrent was geographic, spanning from...
These Are The Countries Building The Most Nuclear Power
20.04.2026, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Countries Building The Most Nuclear Power China is set to become the world’s dominant nuclear power producer. Based on existing and planned projects, its total capacity could reach nearly 186 gigawatts, far surpassing the U.S., which currently leads globally. This shift reflects a broader push to secure reliable, low-carbon energy as...
Warum die USA den Krieg gegen den Iran fortsetzen werden
20.04.2026, 08:48 Uhr. tkp.at - https: - Wie vor einem Monat vorhergesagt, verhängte die in den Nahen Osten entsandte US-Marine-Expeditions-Einheit (MEU) nun eine Blockade des iranischen Öls nach China. Diejenigen, die auf "Israel" fixiert sind, lenken von dem ab, was letztlich ein Kriegsakt gegen China ist. Werden China und Russland ein Konvoisystem für ihre Schiffe einrichten? Die Vermutung...
These Are The Top Trade Partners Of Every European Country
20.04.2026, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Top Trade Partners Of Every European Country Germany sits at the center of Europe’s trade network, but it is not the only global force shaping the continent’s economy. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, highlights the top trading partner of each European country based on International Monetary Fund data for Q1-Q3 2025...
Washington's Renewed Russian Oil Sanctions Waiver Will Help Their Shared Indian Partner
20.04.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Washington's Renewed Russian Oil Sanctions Waiver Will Help Their Shared Indian Partner Authored by Andrew Korybko, Both benefit from this since the US wants to avoid India sliding into turmoil amidst the global energy crisis and possibly offsetting its envisaged role as a counterweight of sorts to China while more energy revenue from India preemptively...
8 Of The Top 10 'Most Surveilled' Cities Are Asian
20.04.2026, 02:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 8 Of The Top 10 'Most Surveilled' Cities Are Asian While quantifying the total number of surveillance cameras in the world remains an almost impossible task, IHS Markit suggested that there would be around 1 billion surveillance cameras worldwide This visualization, via Visual Capitalist, ranks major global cities by the number of CCTV cameras per...
Here's Why Trump's Hormuz Blockade Should Stoke 'Strait Chaos' For China
19.04.2026, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's Why Trump's Hormuz Blockade Should Stoke 'Strait Chaos' For China The currently closed Strait of Hormuz, situated between Oman and Iran, connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, and has emerged as a major flashpoint in the US-Iran war. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, off Yemen's coast, has also remained a focal point among...
Uranium Supply Crunch Worsens Amid Kazakhstan’s Plan For Strategic Reserve
19.04.2026, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Uranium Supply Crunch Worsens Amid Kazakhstan’s Plan For Strategic Reserve Drawing further attention to the global uranium supply-demand mismatch that we've been pounding the table on since 2020, Kazakhstan has outlined plans to accelerate exploration and create a strategic reserve for the nuclear fuel. We've repeatedly emphasized that the US is...
"No More Mr. Nice Guy": Trump Sends Witkoff To Pakistan For U.S.-Iran Talks As Hormuz Traffic Freezes
19.04.2026, 15:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "No More Mr. Nice Guy": Trump Sends Witkoff To Pakistan For U.S.-Iran Talks As Hormuz Traffic Freezes By Sunday morning, the latest Bloomberg ship tracking data showed that tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz had largely ground to a halt. There were multiple incidents of tankers U-turning over the last 24 hours. At the same time, a senior Iranian...
U.S. Navy Deploys Sea Robots To Sweep Hormuz Chokepoint For Mines
19.04.2026, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - U.S. Navy Deploys Sea Robots To Sweep Hormuz Chokepoint For Mines The US military is deploying unmanned and autonomous surface platforms that can tow an advanced mine-hunting sonar system to detect sea mines that were deployed by Iranian naval forces. This development comes even as Iran closed the Hormuz chokepoint on Saturday morning. By Sunday morning...
Ilhan Omar: Hey, Um, As It Turns Out, I'm Not Actually A Multimillionaire After All
19.04.2026, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ilhan Omar: Hey, Um, As It Turns Out, I'm Not Actually A Multimillionaire After All Authored by Robert Spencer via PJMedia.com, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) has for some time now been the poster child not only for the legion of ungrateful, America-hating migrants, but for members of the House of Representatives who have become multimillionaires on...
Senate Bill Wants Commercial Reactors On Federal Land
18.04.2026, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate Bill Wants Commercial Reactors On Federal Land Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Dave McCormick (R-PA) introduced the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Deployment Act (NEIDA) on April 14th, presenting what could be one of the most significant regulatory shifts for U.S. nuclear power in decades. The legislation would expand the DOE’s authority to license...
The Universe Is Expanding 'Too Fast' And Nothing We Know Can Explain It
18.04.2026, 18:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Universe Is Expanding 'Too Fast' And Nothing We Know Can Explain It Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, New ultra-precise measurements have confirmed the cosmos is expanding faster than models based on the early universe predict, while a separate study has dramatically shortened estimates of how long the universe itself will last. Astronomers...
China macht es vor: Effektive elterliche Aufsicht statt allgemeiner Ausweispflicht im Internet ist möglich
18.04.2026, 18:07 Uhr. Geld und mehr - https: - 18. 04. 2026 | Die EU hat eine Alterskontroll-App vorgestellt, mit der alle EU-Bürger künftig gegenüber Online-Seiten und -Diensten ihr Alter nachweisen sollen. Vorbild ist die Covid-App, die half, Ungeimpfte vom sozialen Leben auszuschließen. Obwohl es angeblich um Kinder- und Jugendschutz gehen soll, werden bekannte Möglichkeiten, effektive...
Beijing Boosts BeiDou Satellite System To Try And Compete With GPS
18.04.2026, 04:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beijing Boosts BeiDou Satellite System To Try And Compete With GPS China is upgrading its BeiDou satellite navigation system, a domestic alternative to GPS, to expand its global reach and industry use, according to South China Morning Post. The plan involves replacing older satellites with newer third-generation models and adjusting their orbits to...
Brave New Autonomous World Takes Shape On America's Highways
18.04.2026, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Brave New Autonomous World Takes Shape On America's Highways Wall Street remains hyper-focused on whether the hyperscalers' AI-driven data center buildout, now approaching $700 billion and roughly 10 times 2020 levels, will ultimately generate enough returns to justify the massive spending boom. Goldman analysts, led by Mark Delaney, focused on the...
Xi Jinping Refocuses On Taiwan With Renewed Political Outreach
18.04.2026, 02:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Xi Jinping Refocuses On Taiwan With Renewed Political Outreach China hosted a high-profile meeting between Xi Jinping and a senior Taiwanese opposition figure from the Kuomintang (KMT), marking a notable resumption of party-to-party engagement after years of limited direct contact, according to Nikkei Asia. The meeting was tightly choreographed, featuring...
"Overwhelming Puke-Stream": It's All Going To Come Out Now...
17.04.2026, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Overwhelming Puke-Stream": It's All Going To Come Out Now... Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Showdown “Everything that’s wrong is staring us right in the face, and half this country simply will not join us in fighting and fixing it. It’s infuriating and depressing and maddening.” - James Woods on X The closer this Iran war comes to a favorable...
Critical Metals Shares Surge 40% After Expanding Rare Earth Mining Position In Greenland
17.04.2026, 19:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Critical Metals Shares Surge 40% After Expanding Rare Earth Mining Position In Greenland Critical Metals Corp. shares have surged as much as 45% in trading today after the company significantly expanded its position in Greenland’s Tanbreez rare earth project, tightening its grip on a resource it sees as central to a US-friendly supply chain, according...
US Intelligence Believes China Weighing Sending Iran Advance Radar Systems
17.04.2026, 16:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Intelligence Believes China Weighing Sending Iran Advance Radar Systems US intelligence is flagging early signs that Beijing may have been eyeing a move into the Iran conflict - quietly considering sending advanced radar systems, which it is said to have been mulling since near the opening of the US-Israel war which kicked off last month. These anti-Beijing...
U.S. Navy Spy Drone Circles Cuba As Report Says Pentagon Weighing Possible Military Ops
17.04.2026, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - U.S. Navy Spy Drone Circles Cuba As Report Says Pentagon Weighing Possible Military Ops With President Trump signaling on Thursday that a deal with Tehran could be close, and indicating that another round of talks may take place this weekend, the focus is already beginning to shift beyond the Gulf region and back toward the Gulf of America, where reports...
Critical Shortage Of Jet Fuel: EU Airlines Have Just 6 Weeks Supply Left
17.04.2026, 14:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Critical Shortage Of Jet Fuel: EU Airlines Have Just 6 Weeks Supply Left Via Remix News, The European market is facing a critical shortage of kerosene, with only six weeks of supply remaining, and the war in Iran is threatening the continent with a major aviation crisis. Since the war broke out, jet fuel prices have jumped 70 percent, threatening the...
Aluminum Market Descends Into Supply 'Black Hole'
17.04.2026, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Aluminum Market Descends Into Supply 'Black Hole' Aluminum prices on the London Metal Exchange are climbing into the end of the week, reaching $3,621 a ton and approaching the peak seen during Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The problem now is that the aluminum market has been thrust into a serious supply shock amid the U.S.-Iran conflict in the...
Iran und China durchbrechen die US-Marineblockade massiv – Trump in der Krise: Analyse von Larry Johnson
17.04.2026, 11:06 Uhr. uncut-news.ch - https: - In diesem aktuellen Interview spricht der erfahrene Analyst und ehemalige CIA- und Außenministeriumsmitarbeiter Larry Johnson mit dem in China ansässigen Moderator Danny Hiong über die anhaltende US-Blockade im Persischen Golf. Johnson bewertet die Lage als strategisches Desaster für die Trump-Administration, das die Grenzen der amerikanischen Macht...
Gulf Shock May Spark Shortage Of World's Most Critical Industrial Chemical, Used Heavily In Mining
17.04.2026, 00:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gulf Shock May Spark Shortage Of World's Most Critical Industrial Chemical, Used Heavily In Mining Goldman analysts Kyle Shaffer and Amanda Ross provided clients with a broad overview of industrials and natural resources amid energy disruptions in the Gulf area. In the note, they stated that the well-known Gulf energy shock is set to disrupt LNG...
Taiwan Semi Slides Despite Record Results In Warning Sign For Chip Companies
16.04.2026, 20:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taiwan Semi Slides Despite Record Results In Warning Sign For Chip Companies Taiwanese chip giant, Taiwan Semiconductor Manfuacturing Co, said Thursday its net profit surged to a fresh record in the first quarter, fueled by the global artificial intelligence race despite the war in the Middle East. Massive demand for AI hardware means business is booming...
Dieser KI-Roboter überholt fast jeden Menschen – und er könnte bald Jagd auf uns machen
16.04.2026, 17:01 Uhr. Report24 - https: - Während wir uns im Westen selbst deindustrialisieren, rüstet China eifrig auf: Humanoide Roboter mit künstlicher Intelligenz werden nicht mehr nur für Fabriken gebaut. Mehr noch: Nicht nur die zivile Nutzung steht im Fokus. Werden diese Maschinen früher oder später Jagd auf Menschen machen?...