Indo-Pacific
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Opinion · South Asia
Three Myths the West Gets Wrong About CPEC
Beyond the headlines: why calling a $62 billion trade corridor a "debt trap" misses what is actually happening on the ground.
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Analysis · Africa
The G20 Common Framework Fixed Who Sits at the Table. It Never Fixed the Clock.
The Common Framework brought China and the Paris Club into one restructuring process for the first time. It left the timeline open-ended, and the IMF and World Bank have since called the missing standstill and deadline design gaps. The delay, not the generosity of each settlement, has been its most underpriced cost.
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Analysis · Indo-Pacific
Kazakhstan’s Agricultural Machinery Revolution
How Astana Is Turning Foreign Competition into Industrial Power
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Analysis · Americas
Why China Will Get What It Wants From Trump
Xi arrives in Washington with rare earths, cheap energy, and leverage. Trump arrives with $6 diesel and a war he can't afford.
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Analysis · South Asia
Bangladesh's BRICS Absence Was About More Than Protocol
Dhaka's no-show in New Delhi exposed a narrowing strategic space between BRICS-style financial autonomy and new U.S.-linked economic-security commitments.
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Analysis · Indo-Pacific
Why India and China Secretly Want the Dollar to Survive
The bloc's two biggest economies hold trillions in dollar assets, and their rivalry makes a shared alternative even less likely.
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Analysis · Europe
Europe Is Becoming a Chinese Colony
How Europe’s trade imbalance with China is becoming a vulnerability for jobs, manufacturing, and security.
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Analysis · Indo-Pacific
China Won’t Invade Taiwan. It Will Quarantine It.
A blockade is an act of war. A quarantine is paperwork
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Analysis · Americas
Trump Doesn’t Want Money From His Allies. He Wants Their Soldiers.
South Korea pay the price of the US security guaranty
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Analysis · South Asia
China’s Water Bomb Has Exploded in Nepal — and the World Is Silent
Climate change broke the mountain, but China’s upstream secrecy and the world’s silence turned disaster into catastrophe.
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Research paper · Americas
The End of the Liberal International Order? What Comes Next, We Still Do Not Know
The liberal international order is widely held to be breaking apart, yet scholars disagree about what is breaking, when the breakdown began, and what will take its place.
