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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...
Taiwan at a Crossroads: Why Strategic Ambiguity Needs Recalibration
Taiwan is also becoming a more dangerous flash point in the international affairs. War in the Taiwan strait will lead to a full-blown confrontation...
Nuclear Weapons Without Limits: The New Arms Race
With the expiry of the New START treaty on February 5, 2026, the last legally binding constraint on nuclear arsenals between the United States...
The Fatal Costs of the Philippines-Taiwan War Scenario
In August 2025, President Marcos Jr. said that “a war over Taiwan will drag the Philippines, kicking and screaming into the conflict."
Pushing for preparation,...
The AI Revolution Is Reshaping the World. Why Isn’t Africa at the Table?
A Continent at the Edge of a New Divide
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the organizing principle of global power, yet Africa—the world’s youngest continent...
Deconstructing Dollar Dominance: Insights for a Multipolar Currency Regime
Authors: Ajay Kumar Mishra and Shraddha Rishi*
At the Davos World Economic Forum, Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, shared his thoughts on the...
How a symbolic shift from “Buy” to “Bye” is reshaping U.S. markets
U. S. investors are withdrawing money from their stock market at the fastest rate in over 16 years, with $75 billion pulled out in...
From Map Dots to Linchpins: How Small Islands Rewire Indian Ocean Power
Authors: Amna Hashmi and Amina Munir
Geopolitics considered landmass to be destiny for centuries. Empires grew by dominating space; great powers gauged power in boundaries,...