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What the US-Israel War on Iran Means for the Long Term
The recent US-Israel attacks on Iran has triggered an avalanche of analysis by a range of different specialists on the many media platforms that...
The New Intelligence Challenge: How China Exploits Israel’s Internal Divisions to Outmaneuver Mossad
The Israeli intelligence apparatus, particularly the Mossad and Shin Bet, faces a growing challenge stemming from the Chinese strategy of its State Security Service...
War, Energy, and the Remaking of Global Order in Beijing’s Image
The looming May 14–15 summit in Beijing between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping presents a puzzle that conventional geopolitical maps struggle to navigate. As...
Is Britain considering a return to the EU?
No one should be surprised by the growing number of voices calling for Britain to return to the EU, or at least to accelerate...
The Continent That Believed Geopolitics Had Ended
For more than three decades, Europe behaved as if history had granted it a permanent exemption from geopolitics. The end of the Cold War,...
How Russia’s Network Collapse Exposes the Limits of Nuclear Deterrence
Russia holds a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, commands the world's largest nuclear arsenal, and occupies a landmass spanning eleven time...
A Civilizational Struggle: Truth Versus Shadow in World Politics
“To them. I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. That is certain.” -Plato, The Republic
Plato’s Cave and...
The KMT’s new right-left dichotomy
As chairman of the Guomindang (KMT), Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is currently on a visit to the Chinese mainland with a delegation of KMT officials;...
Will Bonds Ever Recover? Why Pre-War Levels Are Out of Reach
Global bond markets might recover slightly but are not expected to fully bounce back from the selloff caused by the war, mainly because energy...
What the math reveals about SpaceX’s $1.75 trillion valuation
Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims for a $1.75 trillion valuation in its upcoming initial public offering (IPO). This valuation would place SpaceX as the sixth...