Time to give the Trump-Putin-Orban axis a slap in the...
If you want to understand why the general election in Hungary April 12 will be geopolitically significant, and how today’s geopolitics are different from any previous time in the 80...
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China’s Middle East billions still woefully reliant on US gunboats
China has staked roughly US$145 billion in investments and construction contracts across the Middle East, while Iranian oil alone accounts for 13–14% of its imports. Yet Beijing maintains no permanent...
Indonesia can’t stay silent on China’s UUV incursion
The discovery of a suspected Chinese unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in the Lombok Strait is not a routine maritime incident. It is a breach of Indonesia’s strategic space. Found by...
US lawmakers seek to block China’s DUV lithography access
A group of bipartisan lawmakers in the United States has introduced legislation to tighten restrictions on advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment, seeking to block Chinese chipmakers from accessing deep-ultraviolet (DUV) immersion...
For South Korea, an alliance in question
South Korea’s decades of sacrifice are colliding with a more transactional United States – and that collision is raising hard questions about reciprocity, reliability and strategic autonomy. In 2013, South...
US isn’t losing soft power in SE Asia — it’s...
Commentators increasingly warn that the United States is losing its soft power – and the data backs them up. The Brand Finance Global Soft Power Index 2026 ranked the US...
The deal to reopen Hormuz is nowhere near done
Wednesday’s ceasefire announcement by President Donald Trump, linked to Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz, prompted immediate optimism shipping would quickly resume. It didn’t. The following morning, traffic remained minimal....
CNBC anchor mulls investor ‘upside’ of Trump civilizational threat
CNBC anchor Sara Eisen got dragged on social media this week over her on-air comments asking whether US President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s civilization was good for investors. As the...
Can Pakistan deliver as Washington’s go-to mediator with Iran?
An American delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance and including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, arrives in Islamabad Friday for talks with Iranian delegation led by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf,...
Don’t fear the dip: Gold is still headed to $6,000
Gold is down nearly 15% since late February, falling from highs near $5,600 to around $4,500 as Iran tensions escalated. That decline is not a contradiction of my $6,000 target...
