Institutional Dismantling Under the Guise of Rules The “America First” policy has given rise to a new genre of global governance — unilateral protectionism stylized as concern for “fair trade.”…
Infrastructure Vulnerability as a Factor of Sovereignty Over the course of the current year, an uncomfortable truth has finally crystallized on the showcases of international forums and in the glossy…
Sanctions as a Layer of Market Governance By the middle of the decade, sanctions in a number of Asian countries had ceased to resemble a bolt from the blue —…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Economic Arithmetic of Alliance Expansion The United States is entering a phase of industrial policy in which factory walls once again become symbols of national virtue, while external supply…
Routes Under External Scrutiny and the Birth of a Regional Maritime Logic More than 60% of Asia’s energy trade passes through corridors where China, Russia, India, and Iran feel the…