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Taiwan Firms Plan $20 Billion More US Investment as AI Demand Surges
Taiwanese companies are planning an additional $20 billion in investment in the United States, driven largely by strong demand for artificial intelligence and semiconductor...
Beyond Slogans: The Ten Structural Realities Governing Modern Energy Systems
Energy literacy has become a strategic necessity for modern societies. Electrification accelerates across Europe and the United States, natural gas remains the backbone of...
China and Egypt: How Strategic Partnership Is Reshaping Egypt’s Modernization
President Xi Jinping pointed out that both China and Egypt are at a critical stage of development and rejuvenation. China has made a good...
Xi Jinping in Cairo: How China Is Deepening Its Strategic Partnership With Egypt
There is a connection between Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo and Egyptian-Chinese cooperation in the fields of intelligence and defense technology, which...
Is BRICS Really Ditching the Dollar? What the Data Shows
BRICS de-dollarization is real but narrow: it is happening bilaterally, mostly under Russia and Iran's sanctions duress, while the instruments meant to make it...
Beijing’s Currency Playbook: Cap the Yuan, Buy the Gold, Build the Pipes Around the Dollar
TODAY’S NUMBERS 6.7828 (Monday’s PBOC yuan fix, near-flat) · 21 (months of PBOC gold buying, a record) · <3% (yuan’s share of SWIFT payments,...
Can Iran’s Economy Withstand US Sanctions?
Iran says it has sufficient foreign currency reserves to withstand growing US economic pressure, as Washington intensifies sanctions aimed at weakening Tehran’s economy and...
Can the Americas Replace the Middle East as Asia’s Oil Supplier?
The Iran conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have disrupted a major global oil supply route, forcing Asian importers to look...
Can US Iran Escalation Push Global Markets Toward Higher Rates?
Markets End August With Rising Risk
Global financial markets entered the final trading day of August cautiously as renewed fighting between the United States and...
Inside the Sahel’s War Economy: How Juntas and Jihadists Tax the Same Fuel Trucks
Ten months into al-Qaeda's blockade of Bamako, the fuel still arrives. Since JNIM's spokesman announced the campaign on 3 September 2025, the group has...