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Between Trade and Threat: Southeast Asia’s Difficult Balance Between China and the U.S.
Rivalry between the United States and China plays a pivotal role in the geopolitical dynamics of Southeast Asia. There are many challenging decisions to...
Africa’s Missing Continuum of Capital
Africa does not simply have a shortage of capital. Its deeper problem is that the capital mobilized by its financial systems does not consistently...
Can Xi Jinping’s AI Vision Bridge the Divide with America’s Tech Giants?
The second World Robot Games kicked off in Beijing, China, from August 22nd to 26th, 2026. 2,056 robots representing 666 teams from 16 countries...
BRICS Pay vs. the Dollar: What the IMF’s Own Reserve Data Actually Shows
On 6 July 2026, standing in Jakarta, Narendra Modi and Indonesian officials operationalised a framework letting India and Indonesia settle bilateral trade directly in...
Is China a Perennial Developing Country (As it Claims) or a Developed Country (As Others Assert)? It Matters
The answer depends on a combination of steadfast official Chinese pronouncements that hinge on self-identity and how “developing country status” is defined. The truth...
Linking Development with Migration: The Economics of Prevention
Some ideas are born in institutions. Others leave the institution with the people who first developed them. The idea of a diaspora hedge fund...
Who Is Buying Africa? The Geopolitical Race for Influence, Resources and Power
With geopolitical situation heightening, the world's players are strategically expressing their interest in Africa, and African countries are also choosing their development partners. Many...
Xi Jinping’s Art of Smart Dictatorship 3.0: Why China Rises as America Distracted?
In May 2026, at his own state banquet for Donald Trump in Beijing, Xi Jinping did something unusual for a leader who rarely improvises...
Frozen Russian Assets, Take Two: What Europe’s Revived €210 Billion Plan Means for Ukraine, Belgium and the Euro
TODAY'S NUMBERS
€210bn (frozen Russian assets Brussels wants to mobilize) · €90bn (fallback EU loan already agreed) · €23.1bn (Ukraine's funding gap even with that...
Why the second moment of area matters for beam stiffness, deflection, and preliminary section selection
A beam clears its strength check with margin, then fails on deflection. The section goes up two sizes. Connection details, supporting members, and erection...