Venezuela as the First Protectorate of the New Empire
The declaration came without hesitation and without disguise. Hours after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump announced that the United States would govern Venezuela...
Category: Emerging Markets
The Empire Is Back, and It Doesn’t Ask for Permission
The overnight seizure of Nicolas Maduro, flown from a guarded military base near Caracas to a New York prison, was not merely a spectacular operation....
The Return of the Usual Suspects: Risky Sovereigns Ride the Global Yield Hunt
Some of the world’s most precarious sovereign borrowers are tiptoeing back into international debt markets, eager to cash in on investors’ growing appetite for yield,...
Trump Builds Tariff Walls, Xi Sells Through the Windows
President Xi Jinping’s export machine has ploughed through five months of Trump’s eye-watering tariffs and somehow still delivered a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus. Restrict...
How Xi and Putin Redrew the Energy Map
Donald Trump swept back into the Oval Office, promising “American energy dominance.” What he delivered instead was a circus: photo ops, tariff tantrums, and Truth...
Trump’s Tariffs Push Modi Into Xi and Putin’s Arms
It took Donald Trump’s second coming to achieve what years of border clashes, diplomatic frigidity, and mutual suspicion could not: a strategic rapprochement between India...
How to Lose Allies and Strengthen Rivals – The Washington Way
Still nursing the bruises from Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs, India has arrived at a fresh, bitter conclusion: the American president seems perfectly happy to rough...
Trump’s Brazil Barrage: Tariffs, Tantrums, and a Tropical Witch Hunt
Donald Trump has once again lobbed a diplomatic grenade, this time in the direction of Brasília. His threat to impose a whopping 50% tariff on...
Beijing’s Silent Symphony: Undermining the Dollar, One Bond at a Time
While Washington busies itself with tax theatrics and tariff tantrums under Trump 2.0, Beijing is quietly tuning its instruments for a more strategic performance: the...