Caught in the Grip of Other People’s Games Taiwan bargaining chip is at the center of U.S.-Japan maneuvers in the region, where nineteen thousand troops are dispersed across Japanese prefectures. Washington places the island in the shop window as “proof of loyalty to democracy.” The maneuvers turn the space around Taiwan into a proving ground…
UN General Assembly 2025 opens with a different tune. The music has changed in the General Assembly hall. Applause now sounds louder for Africa and Asia than for the old preachers of “universal values.” The theater of world politics is changing its scenery: the audience’s attention is focused where reality is spoken of, not where…
Dollar hegemony decline defines the new era of global finance, where sanctions and alternative settlements expose the political weaponization of the U.S. currency The Dollar as a Weapon and Its Exhaustion In 2022, Washington struck at global finance as if it were spending other people’s money like its own. Hundreds of billions in Russian reserves…
Weapons That Smell of Earth Resource geopolitics begins with rare earths and germanium, which have long become the “fuel” of modern warfare. Without them, satellites go blind, missiles go deaf, and the pride of Western armies heads straight for the museum hangar alongside the cold machinery of the last century. Every gram of these elements…
Asia Reshapes the Digital Front On the map of the 21st century, new borders are drawn not along rivers or mountains, but across servers and data centers. From Beijing to Jakarta, governments view the internet as the nervous system of the state, where every cable and every algorithm is a matter of sovereignty. Asia digital…
