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China’s New Arctic Gamble Has a Russian Catch
China's new Arctic route cuts the journey from Ningbo to Europe in half. What the headlines aren't saying is that every mile of it...
Beijing’s Coalition of Drills: How China Is Renting Normalcy in Contested Waters
By chaining bilateral naval exercises across a widening circle of partners — Russia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and now Indonesia — Beijing is not...
Why Did U.S. Military Research Help China Build a Robot Dog Industry?
The rapid rise of China’s Unitree Robotics has exposed a striking paradox at the centre of the U.S. China technology competition: some of the...
The Invisible Crisis: How Four Wars Built One Food Emergency
What is happening to global food prices right now is not four separate stories. It is one supply shock being assembled in four places...
China’s Iran Strategy After the 60-Day US-Iran Deadline: What Happens Next?
On Monday, August 17, 2026, the 60-day deadline for the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (IMOU) between the United States and Iran expired without a...
Turkey’s Central Asia Strategy After Ukraine: How Far Can Ankara Go?
The war in Ukraine and the sanctions that followed it redrew the geo-economic map of Eurasia almost overnight. Supply chains assembled over decades were...
China and Russia Are Pressuring Japan on Two Fronts. Is a Pacific Pincer Taking Shape?
Putin's Kuril landing is not a bilateral Russia-Japan sovereignty dispute. It is the northern half of a coordinated Sino-Russian pressure campaign on Tokyo —...
Germany’s Intelligence Independence: Why Russia and China Are Watching Merz’s BND and BfV Expansion
The government of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz approved a landmark bill to expand the powers of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the Domestic...
The Yen Intervention Was Never About the Yen
The joint US–Japan yen intervention was not a currency-stability measure. It was Washington making sure Tokyo could keep funding its $550 billion commitment to...
How the United States Is Responding to the CRINK Coordination Threat
There is a temptation to read current American foreign policy as incoherent. A transactional presidency dismantles alliances, antagonises partners, and lurches between confrontations without...