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Taiwan Independence Explained: Is Taiwan Already a Country?
U. S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet in Beijing next month for a summit, where China is...
Follow the Money – Week of April 29, 2026
EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAYS
The Iran conflict escalated from geopolitical crisis to economic inflection point this week.
Oil surged past $109 as the Strait of Hormuz remained largely...
The Stack as a Strategic Frontier: What France’s Linux Turn Means for the Global South
A software decision with geopolitical weight
The next sovereignty crisis may not begin at the border. It may begin inside the stack. France’s move away...
Tariffs, Trump, Terroir
A year’s passed since Donald Trump imposed swingeing “Liberation Day” duties on the US’s trade partners, forcing many to negotiate “reciprocal” trade agreements to...
Is the US-Iran War Entering the Deadliest Phase?
Authors: Sanjay Turi and Praveen Sothwal*
Amid rising geopolitical uncertainty over a US-Iran war, the Trump-led US is reportedly seen to be deploying tens of...
Why the U.S. is Not a Declining Power: From Middle East Instability to Indo-Pacific Primacy
Every few years, the same obituary is written again. America is finished, we are told. It has lost its nerve, exhausted itself in the...
Xi Jinping’s Four Peace Initiatives after the Iran War
As part of promoting the Chinese Global Security Initiative (GSI) as an alternative to the Western approach, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed a four-point...
White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Puts Trump’s Security Back in the Spotlight
The shooting of a Secret Service agent at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night has raised concerns about the safety of...
Western Sahara: Three Wrong Turns the World Must Not Take
At the end of April the United Nations Security Council returns to a file it has been unable to close for more than three...
How the UAE Engineers Global Influence through Public Diplomacy
The 21st century has redefined the nature of power. Public diplomacy and soft power have emerged as the defining and decisive currency of influence...