One of the most iconic American corporate success stories is very likely the one of the Walt Disney Company. What started out as an experimental garage based business trying to bring animations onto celluloid, developed into one of the most influential media companies worldwide grossing billions of profit annually. Meanwhile the media empire draws a lot of its revenue stream from its internationally located theme parks including hotels and even five cruise ships. Up to this day the company is still growing its market presence. In 2012 Disney swallowed up the Star Wars enterprise, most of the Century 21 holdings, ABC, ESPN, and the Marvel brand. It can not be denied that Disney is synonymous with modern entertainment, particularly for the young since it is very hard to find anything on screen for the younger age segment that is not in the hands of the Disney company or one of their …

Taiwan – just a question of when
Poking the Russian Bear to the East and poking the Asian Dragon to the West – you could call it a media stunt or just a big PR campaign for war, but certainly Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan heated up an old, decade-long smoldering contentious political issue in Asia. Recently the US seems to play an ambiguous international role. On one hand Uncle Sam promises allegiance to its Asian ally, on the other there are words and motions coming out of Washington that allow speculations that in the worst case scenario of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, the US would not engage in a war with China. Quite remarkable is even a present discussion in the US to possibly give Taiwan some sort of a Nato affiliation. Similar to the Ukrainian conflict – by getting NATO involved all, mainly European allies would be dragged into the conflict. It all seems to be straight out of the recipe book – how to start WWIII and weirdly orchestrated by the self proclaimed world “peacekeeper” itself…