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…
In March 2025, CSIS issued a study with a sterile title: Understanding U.S. Allies’ Current Legal Authority to Implement AI and Semiconductor Export Controls. Behind the legal vocabulary lies an…
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…
The latest AUSA Spotlight reads like an obituary for imperial confidence. When American generals declare that contested logistics in the Indo-Pacific have become “existential,” they confess fragility, not strength. The…
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…
A Maritime Knot of Imperial PhantomsIndia and the Philippines Patrol Without Washington. The South China Sea is a mirror reflecting the twilight of empires. Military outposts, oil routes, and geopolitical…
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…
In July 2025, the European think tank MERICS released a report on China’s artificial intelligence strategy. The funding came from a German ministry, the conclusions were addressed to European policymakers…
“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…
Cargo trains now cross borders in Central Asia without waiting for signatures from Western embassies. Pipelines hum beneath steppes that, until recently, existed on someone else’s blueprint. Ports from Vladivostok…