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Europe Is Rearming. It Is Not Integrating
For the better part of a decade, the European defence debate ran on a single complaint: Europe would not spend. That complaint is now...
Easing Sino-Japanese Relations? Japan Is Being Overly Optimistic
In November, China will host the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, drawing attention to Sino-Japanese relations. Compared to China, Japan appears more optimistic, viewing the...
The importance of Secretary Rubio’s trip to Uzbekistan
Secretary Marco Rubio will visit Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in “mid-October” to attend a C5+1 summit to engage the Central Asian region. He will also lead...
The Fed Is Pulling Hot Money Out of Asia. Gulf Money Is Edging In — Who Gains the Leverage?
TODAY'S NUMBERS
$26.3bn (EM portfolio outflows, September) · 5.29% (US 10-year yield peak, 29 September) · 13% (Asia's share of Mubadala's portfolio, up from 10%)....
The Muscat Process: Making Dialogue a Security Capability
The hour after detectionGulf security is usually discussed in terms of deterrence, military capability, and external partnerships. All three matter. But when a crisis...
The Black Sea’s Quiet Shipping War Reaches NATO Waters
Seventy Miles Off Byala
At about 3am on 6 October, aerial and sea drones struck two Turkish-owned cargo ships some 70 nautical miles off the...
Pakistan’s Military Expands Gulf Role as Parliament Sits on the Sidelines
Eleven years after Pakistan decided against joining a Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, the country has now agreed to send more forces to Saudi Arabia...
No Rear Area Left: How the Houthis Took the War Beyond Yemen
A drone strike on a Madinah power station did little physical damage. It confirmed something more consequential: the Houthi threat is no longer a...
Can China and the EU Turn Trade Tensions Into a New Economic Deal?
China is calling for equal dialogue and greater cooperation with the European Union as Brussels and Beijing try to manage growing tensions over trade,...
The Blockade That Doesn’t Exist: How Europe Could Stumble Across Russia’s Kaliningrad Red Line
A Note About a Plan Nobody Has
On 30 September Russia sent NATO members a written note claiming it had information that the alliance was...