For most of this year, Beijing’s economic managers have offered a familiar reassurance: growth is cooling, but it’s cooling in a controlled, deliberate way — the natural byproduct of a planned shift
It arrived in the early hours: a low-altitude drone crossing into Romanian airspace, moving through the sky near Galați. Radar locked on, authorization was given, and a NATO fighter jet — a
For four decades, “the China story” was the only story worth telling about Asian growth. A command economy poured concrete, wired factories, and moved hundreds of millions of people from farms to
When policy debate becomes ethnic hostility, something has gone badly wrong. A new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute should disturb anyone who cares about the direction of American political culture.
President Donald Trump campaigned twice on a promise to end “reckless” regime-change wars; in office again, he is now prosecuting one of the most ambitious regime-change projects in modern U.S. history. In
Europe’s latest energy scare is not a replay of 2022, but the ghosts of that crisis are back in the room as war in the Middle East sends oil and gas prices
Britain’s Palace of Westminster, the iconic seat of democracy, is literally falling apart. With crumbling masonry, rampant asbestos, frequent fires, and sewage leaks, the 19th-century Gothic Revival building risks catastrophe unless MPs
The recent surge in crude oil prices represents one of the most dramatic market shocks in recent memory. Benchmark WTI crude has rocketed past $90 per barrel, hitting levels not seen since
South Asia is slipping toward a second front in a wider regional war, and Washington is looking the other way. Over the past week, Pakistan and Afghanistan have traded their most ferocious
When the Middle East teeters on the brink, commentators reflexively predict a Sino‑Iranian axis taking shape against the West. But that’s a mirage. For all the talk of “strategic partnership” and anti‑American
The striking thing about the new U.S. military “front” in Ecuador is not that Washington cares about narcotics, every administration says it does, but that the Trump administration is increasingly treating disparate
Europe is trying to cordon itself off from a widening Middle East war, relying on humanitarian cheques, naval patrols and diplomatic silence, but the geography of energy, trade and migration means this
Mark Carney’s $2.6‑billion uranium supply deal with India is not just an export win; it’s a strategic pivot that rewires Canada’s place in the Indo‑Pacific, in clean-energy geopolitics, and in a global