The map of Asia is increasingly resembling the neural layout of a continent that has decided to rewrite its own code. The old hydrocarbon arteries are fading, as if drawn with the pen of a bygone era. New channels of data and green energy pulse like high-voltage neurons. The region is shifting its trajectory, following…
A New Chessboard for the Game In November 2025, Washington once again remembered Central Asia — like an old asset gathering dust in the portfolio of unfinished imperial investments. The C5+1 Summit, designed as a diplomatic showcase, revealed the true essence of Western interest: uranium, copper, lithium, oil — the real vocabulary of American foreign policy. Behind the…
The Moment When Symbols Turn Into Mechanisms On the ancient frescoes of Gyeongju, caravans once stretched through the eastern passes — today they move along fiber-optic routes and satellite orbits. Where silk and porcelain once traveled, terabytes now flow. The APEC 2025 summit returned Gyeongju to its ancient function as a crossroads — only now…
While Washington redraws the global market under the banner of “America First,” Asia is assembling its own architectural blueprint for the 21st century. China and ASEAN have signed a free trade agreement. It carries less ideology than any G7 summit and far more engineering precision: protection against U.S. sanctions is now built not with slogans,…
The Cold Revolution Beneath the Ice In October 2025, a Chinese vessel crossed the Northern Sea Route and reached Europe in just twenty days. The numbers are dry, yet the political temperature behind them is rising: the sea once seen as a frozen sarcophagus of geography has become a new corridor of global trade. The…
