On December 12th, 2025, officials from seven countries walked into the State
Department in Washington and signed a single page of text that afternoon. Then
Germany signed in June. So did the European Union. So did India, Japan, South
Korea and the United Arab Emirates. It's called Pax Silica.
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On December 12th, 2025, officials from seven countries walked into the State
Department in Washington and signed a single page of text that afternoon.
Then Germany signed in June. So did the European Union. So did India, Japan,
South Korea and the United Arab
Emirates.
It's called Pax Silica.
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Washington took the name from Rome. Because the Romans had their own version
— the Pax Romana.
Two thousand years ago, a merchant could load grain in Egypt and sell it in
Gaul without ever changing his money. He carried Roman coin. He traveled Roman
roads. And he paid Rome a small cut of everything he made.
Rome minted the money and guarded the roads, so Rome collected on every trade
in the known world. That arrangement held for 500 hundred years.
Now Washington wants the same arrangement. Not for grain or tin or silk...
but for silicon.
And Porter Stansberry believes this is the beginning of "Trump's New Dollar"
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Porter is revealing the five companies his research indicates sit at the
heart of this agreement.
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Treasury Secretary Bessent Says No One Is Above the Reach of US Sanctions on
Iranian Oil Buyers. Iran's Largest Oil Customer Is China, Whose President
Arrives at the White House on September 24 — and Analysts Say That Is Exactly
Why the Policy May Not Be Enforced as Advertised.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rolled out a sanctions program aimed at
buyers of Iranian oil, stating that no party is above the reach of US sanctions
and signalling that China would not be exempt. The complication is on the
calendar:China remains Iran's largest oil customer, and President Xi Jinping is
scheduled at the White House on September 24 for a summit Washington has been
preparing for months.
Analysts have been direct about the bind this creates. Taiyi Sun of
Christopher Newport University described a paradox in which every stronger
option available to Washington creates a China problem —the country with the
greatest potential economic leverage over Tehran is also the one the US can
least afford to alienate before the summit. Sun told CNBC he does not expect
the policy to be implemented as advertised, characterising the sanctions
program as a way for the administration to defer the Iran situation ahead of
the midterms rather than a mechanism it intends to enforce against Beijing. The
summit itself is being described by people familiar with the preparations as a
low-expectations meeting focused on managing a stalemate rather than resolving
it, with working-level talks on cutting tariffs for "nonsensitive" goods still
unresolved on scope. China has its own reason to want the war contained: the
Hormuz shutdown has raised its own energy import costs, and Beijing has called
for a comprehensive ceasefire since the conflict began.
For the investor, the value here is in recognising the difference between
announced policy and enforced policy, because only the second one moves
physical flows. A sanctions regime that formally covers Chinese purchases of
Iranian crude but is not enforced against them leaves the actual oil balance
unchanged while adding headline risk that can move prices on announcement —
which is a trading pattern rather than a supply change.The specific thing that
would signal a real shift is designation and enforcement action against a named
Chinese buyer, not a statement of universal applicability.Until then, the more
consequential September date for energy markets may be the 24th rather than the
16th, because whether Washington chooses leverage over Iran or accommodation
with Beijing is a decision that gets made in a room, not in a data release.
Sources — CNBC 02.09.2026 · Nikkei Asia 01.09.2026 · Al Jazeera 13.05.2026
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