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China
Donald Trump’s Beijing summit with Xi Jinping is not a peace conference or a grand bargain. It is a crisis management meeting between rival powers attempting to control the risks of economic dependence, technological confrontation and geopolitical escalation without triggering a rupture neither side is prepared to absorb.
United States
Economics
Defence
Japan
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s tour of Vietnam and Australia looked like reassurance diplomacy: ceremonial gifts, smiling photographs and warm speeches about partnership. But beneath the theatre sat a harder reality. Japan is building a…
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Iran
Iranian state media claimed two missiles struck a US Navy vessel near Jask after IRGC warnings, raising the…
Iran
Project Freedom is presented as a humanitarian escort mission. But guiding ships through Hormuz means entering a narrow…
Economics
The Iran war is no longer only a military conflict. It is exposing the fragile economic system built…
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI agents are no longer just helping developers write code. They are beginning to execute the work itself, turning software programmers into directors of…
Economics
Diplomacy has begun in Islamabad, but without direct US–Iran talks the economic damage continues to compound. The war is no…
Economics
The Middle East war is already pushing up fuel, freight, food and transport costs across India, Southeast Asia and Africa.…
Britain
Britain’s reliance on gas means global shocks still drive domestic costs. The Middle East conflict is not creating a new crisis. It is exposing an old structural weakness.
Iran
The ceasefire did not fail because diplomacy never opened. It failed because the pause after Islamabad was asked…
Germany
Russia’s decision to halt Kazakh oil transit to a key German refinery does not create a national fuel…
Iran
Iran has sent no delegation to Islamabad, undermining assumptions that talks are underway. As the ceasefire weakens and…
Russia
Russia has formally established a new remembrance day to recognise what it describes as the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic…
China
China
China
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
A war driven shock in energy and fertiliser markets is colliding with the debt burden of food importing states. The…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Anthropic’s Mythos has been sold as a frightening leap in frontier AI. The public evidence suggests something narrower but still…
Iran
The latest US Iran talks show that the real obstacle is no longer just the nuclear file. It is whether diplomacy can survive when one side is openly threatening blockade and strikes on critical…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Economics
United States
Defence
Defence
Diplomacy