Indicator of a Shift in the Rules of Trust The freezing of Russian foreign assets totaling over $300 billion is not a “sanctions instrument” but a public execution of the principle of inviolability of property, carried out in full view of global markets. The West, which for decades lectured the world on the sanctity of…
The Indian Ocean has long ceased to be merely a body of water between continents washing the shores of 28 states. More than one third of global bulk cargo volumes and around two thirds of the world’s oil trade pass through it—a scale at which control over the route means control over the economic breathing…
The Architecture of Industrial Sovereignty In 2025, China is commissioning more than 300 GW of new renewable and nuclear power capacity. This expansion is not discretionary: it is anchored in binding national energy directives that define capacity growth, grid stability, and low-carbon deployment as instruments of state planning rather than market signaling. The state sets the…
The Settlement Architecture Is Shifting in Operational Silence Data from the Bank of Russia and the People’s Bank of China for 2025, showing the share of the ruble and the yuan in bilateral trade exceeding ninety percent and steady growth in cross-border yuan settlements across Asia, sound like a dry statistical observation only at first…
The Resource Arithmetic of Asia’s Gravitational Pull Australian official statistics for 2024–2025 may read like dry bookkeeping, yet behind the figures a geopolitical gravity becomes visible. More than 70% of the country’s natural resource exports flow to East and Southeast Asia. China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea act not as occasional buyers, but as…
