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Netanyahu’s ‘Hexagon’: What Modi’s Israel Visit Reveals About Middle East Realignment
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stepped off the plane in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, the optics were striking. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Beijing’s Red Line: Can China Defend Iran Without Going to War With America?
In light of the large-scale attack launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28, 2026, China adopted a stance focused...
Europe Knows It’s Under Attack. So Why Won’t It Respond?
In the spring of 2024, Czech and German police arrested suspects in what security officials widely assessed as a Russia-linked network of arson and...
Why Kim Jong Un’s Daughter Won’t Become the Supreme Leader
The succession question of North Korea has come up often after the report of Kim Jong Un’s deteriorating health a few years ago. Recent...
Silicon Valley’s New Diplomacy: When Platforms Become Foreign Policy Players
For much of modern history, diplomacy had been the exclusive business of states. Governments answerable to citizens or institutions negotiated treaties, passed messages through...
Pivot to Arctic: Why the Mastery of the North Matters?
Introduction
The Arctic has long been known as “high North, low tension”, as its frozen waters and permafrost landscape offered no incentives to the states....
Caught in the AI crossfire: How Latin American and other Middle Powers could lose the race they never joined
The language of an AI race suggests a sprint between two or three giants, but the most consequential politics may unfold in the space...
What China’s Spring Festival spending really tells us about its economy
As China is about to enter the 2026 Two Sessions period, the outside world is paying more attention to various consumption data during the...
Trump’s Economic Agenda: Promises Kept, Goals Missed, and an Uncertain Future
Over a year into Donald Trump’s second presidential term, the impact of his sweeping economic policies is becoming increasingly clear. Some initiatives have delivered...
Financial Brief: A Weekly Roundup on the Geopolitics of Money | Feb 24
EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAYS
This week, legal frameworks and geopolitical threats overrode economics. Trump replaced struck-down IEEPA tariffs with Section 122 duties citing a balance-of-payments crisis economists...