For some time now, Ukraine has been undertaking a long-range strike campaign against targets inside Russia. It has done this to degrade Russia’s war-making capacity by attacking factories and oil ...

Indonesia has rapidly become the world’s largest supplier of nickel after adopting a surprisingly successful mix of industrial and trade policies to expand processing capacity and battery ...

Kim’s motive for finally admitting this open secret has to do with domestic implications for North Korea itself from the fighting in Ukraine. North Korea’s military presence over the years in Egypt, ...

In the PLA context, clientelist and professional relations can be seen in linkages between Xi and members of the so-called “Shaanxi Gang”, including Xi’s connections as a “princeling” to CMC Vice ...

The concerted pushback against Musk and Tesla in America itself, as well as places such as Germany and Canada, which have been the victims of Trump’s erratic policies, has caused a plunge in car sales ...

The media typically only has enough space to focus on one big story at a time. Trump’s tariffs are dominating now. Last week it was “Signal-gate”, after a journalist was added to a White House-led ...

As long as Vladimir Putin is alive, this war is likely to continue. Putin is only 72 years old. He is in good health, exercises daily, drinks moderately, if at all, and comes from a family with a ...

But chaos and mismanagement are just the least of the sins committed by Myanmar’s military over the last few days. Unusually early to call for international assistance, the junta seems to have seen an ...

Like the 1985 Plaza Accord, part of the proposed solution is to force the rest of the world to appreciate their currencies to improve US export competitiveness. You can already see the effort here to ...

A weekend headline from the South China Morning Post declaring “ China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable-cutter that could reset the world order ” caught plenty of attention and amplified anxieties ...

China is widely assumed to be the biggest beneficiary, although the full extent of the impact remains unquantified. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, however, offers some insight into the upheaval ...