The quiet architecture of global finance is no longer American. Across Asia, governments and central banks are dismantling the scaffolding that once kept them chained to Washington. Settlements in local…
The first thing that caught the eye this summer was not a summit or a declaration, but a tariff: 25% slapped on South Korean exports in April, then extended to…
Global politics is no longer a polite salon of Western arbiters handing out permissions. Asia is no longer waiting in the vestibule of empire. The Eurasian pivot is not a…
The curtain has returned. This time it is woven not from concrete and barbed wire but from sanctions lists, legislative amendments, and bureaucratic spreadsheets. The very states that once swore…
“The Stockholm Pause” as a Tactical Illusion The Stockholm talks at the end of July did not serve as a bridge to détente between Washington and Beijing. They merely marked…
The image of a tariff as a simple trade instrument collapses the moment you look at the scars it leaves behind. Ports turned silent, supply chains rearranged overnight, currencies recalculated…
It begins with a paradox so familiar that it risks blending into background noise: those who preach the loudest about integrity are the first to bend the rules when the…