China’s Calm Front, Fragile Core
China today presents itself as the one major power still capable of looking composed in a world that seems determined to lose its balance. That,...
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India’s Industrial Dream Meets the Chinese Gatekeeper
India wants to be the alternative. The factory floor the West can trust, the manufacturing platform that rises as China hardens, the industrial power that...
Russia-China, the Axis of Convenience Tightens
As war drags on in the Middle East and the American position grows more erratic by the day, Beijing and Moscow are doing what they...
The Quiet War Behind the War: the Chinese strategy
There is the conflict everyone sees — missiles, oil, ships stalled in narrow waters. And then there is the other one, slower, colder, infinitely more...
Holy Empire: Russia’s Quiet Conquest of Africa
At the edge of the South African wine country, near the town of Robertson, beyond rows of corrugated iron shacks and up a gravel track...
When the Creditor Steps Back: China, Treasuries and the Slow Repricing of American Power
The tremor in the Treasury market was brief, almost polite, the sort of movement that registers on screens but does not yet disturb sleep. Reports...
Trump Turns Iran Into a Global Toll Booth
Donald Trump has announced a 25% tariff on goods from any country “doing business” with Iran, the latest escalation in a campaign that is less...
Ford’s Ghost, China’s Factory: The Capital War Moves to Europe
Ford’s Cologne plant has been welded into the Rhine’s industrial skyline since 1931, a monument to the American century, when the United States exported not...
How Washington Just Cut Beijing Out of Venezuela
The announcement was brief, deliberately blunt, and strategically revealing. Donald Trump declared that Venezuela would deliver between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil to...