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Make or Break in Beijing: Can the EU Get Anything Real From China by October?
A Chemical Nobody Had Heard Of
On 3 October, five days before EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič landed in Beijing, China's commerce ministry opened an...
Bab al-Mandab: Saudi Arabia’s Hormuz Escape Route Under Fire
On 4 October, Rashad al-Alimi, head of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council, went on television from Saudi Arabia to announce a campaign to retake the...
Ban Keun and the Quiet Expansion of China’s Overseas Military Bases
A Runway Next Door to Wing 23
In August, Chinese J-10C and J-11 fighters and an airborne early-warning aircraft spent eleven days flying out of...
After the Strategic Reserves Run Dry
Two-Thirds Gone, Winter Ahead
On 30 September the US Department of Energy put the last 40 million barrels of its share of March’s emergency release...
The Diesel Weapon
Twenty-Four Hours in October
On 1 October Washington told Europe to release 120 million barrels of diesel from its emergency stocks over six months, or...
Both Shores of the Bab el-Mandeb Are Now at War
A Charge Sheet Aimed at the Sea
On 29 September, Ethiopia's army chief, Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, told the country that its soldiers were fighting...
The End of Cheap Money? Why Record Global Bond Yields Matter for the Global South
5.34% and a Finance Minister's Problem
On Thursday the yield on the 10-year US Treasury touched 5.34%, its highest since 2002. The same day, Britain's...
Kaliningrad: Russia Has Drawn a Nuclear Red Line Around a Blockade That Doesn’t Exist
On 30 September, Russia put a nuclear threat in writing and sent it to NATO. The diplomatic note, seen by Reuters, warned that Moscow...
Milei’s Falklands Ultimatum: $100 Oil Thaws a Frozen Dispute
Two Weeks, One Oilfield
On 29 September, Javier Milei gave Britain two weeks to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falkland Islands,...
America’s Diesel-Ban Threat Shows Europe Is Paying for the Iran War
A Promise Meets a Midterm
On 22 September, Donald Trump said he might support a ban or quantitative limit on US diesel exports. Soon afterwards...