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Hong Kong has long branded itself as “Asia’s World City”—a cosmopolitan entrepôt where East meets West, open to global capital, ideas, and…
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Hong Kong has long branded itself as “Asia’s World City”—a cosmopolitan entrepôt where East meets West, open to global capital, ideas, and…
Carl von Clausewitz has been vindicated by the U.S.–Iran war. Pick your insight. War is politics by other means. Friction and fog…
As BRICS expands its membership and Western-led institutions face renewed uncertainty, an increasingly familiar question has resurfaced across policy circles, think tanks,…
The world’s most consequential stretch of water is 21 nautical miles wide at its narrowest point. Through the Strait of Hormuz approximately…
Before the Trump–Xi summit in May 2026, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that Taiwan would inevitably be a topic of…
Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary has been described as a victory of democracy over illiberal populism. Péter Magyar’s Tisza party now wields…
The myth of a rights-based international system capable of protecting civilians has been shattered, as citizens across the globe endure the weight…
The global economy is currently experiencing a systemic shock of unusual magnitude. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly…
In what is widely regarded as one of the world’s most liberal democracies, the state of Queensland, Australia, has recently enforced legislation…
Going back to the core motive behind U.S. military campaigns against Iran—intensifying from 2025 into full-scale war in 2026—and, more broadly, to…