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How Chinese Goods Reached Iran Despite Billions in Sanctions
Iran has created a barter-like system to bypass sanctions on its oil sales, allowing it to acquire billions of dollars in goods from China,...
Xi’s India Visit Signals Diplomatic Thaw, but Business Ties Face Deep Distrust
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit New Delhi for the annual BRICS summit, marking his first trip to India in seven years....
Trump’s Iran Campaign Risks Becoming America’s Next ‘Forever War’
When Donald Trump ran for a second term, he promised to be a “president of peace” and claimed he would end foreign wars rather...
Gold Up, Dollar Down, Yields Rising: What Kevin Warsh’s Fed Is Doing to the Reserve Currency
TODAY'S NUMBERS:
$4,388 (gold, per ounce) · 98.6 (dollar index, four-month low) · 4.8% (10-year Treasury yield, highest since 2023). Gold and yields normally move...
Xi’s Global South Tour Signed Zero New Dollars
Coalition-building requires new joint capital committed at the moment of political signaling. Hedging requires only showing up where the money already flows and collecting...
Why Gold Fell While Central Banks Kept Buying It
Gold used to spike on every Gulf war headline because the same buyers set both its price and its ownership. In 2026 those are...
Ukraine’s Corruption Story Runs on Its Own Clock, Not the Battlefield’s
Bottom line: Documented Ukrainian graft becomes diplomatic leverage on its own schedule, independent of its dollar value — the 2024 $40 million case and...
Why Serbia’s River Threat to Kosovo Is Really About Ukraine
Vučić's threat to divert the Ibar River is not a Kosovo policy — it is manufactured leverage aimed at three audiences at once: Brussels,...
Japan’s Two-Track China Strategy Is a Model for US Allies
Japan's simultaneous pursuit of hard Taiwan deterrence and quiet parliamentary diplomacy with Beijing is not policy confusion — it is a deliberate, low-cost dual-track...
Why Failed Coups Make Sahel Juntas Stronger, Not Weaker
Surviving a coup attempt is not a near-miss for Sahel juntas — it is the mechanism of entrenchment itself: each failed attempt hands the...