Donald Trump arrived in Beijing seeking more than trade deals. Behind the ceremony of the first day of the China summit lay deeper pressures: Iran, inflation, Taiwan, energy markets and the growing realization in…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Beijing's new intelligent agent policy is not a narrow AI rulebook. It is a blueprint for a governed…
China
China’s rise was not the triumph of capitalism over socialism. It was the construction of a hybrid system…
United States
Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing is not a peace summit or a grand bargain. It is a crisis…
Economics
Defence
Japan
Economics
Martin Wolf sees the return of global imbalances as a problem of surplus countries saving too much and America borrowing too much. But the…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
Iran
Iranian state media claimed two missiles struck a US Navy vessel near Jask after IRGC warnings, raising the risk that…
Iran
Project Freedom is presented as a humanitarian escort mission. But guiding ships through Hormuz means entering a narrow corridor watched…
Economics
The Iran war is no longer only a military conflict. It is exposing the fragile economic system built around cheap energy, long supply chains, dollar finance and open chokepoints.
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Economics
The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC is not just about oil production. It reflects a deeper…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI agents are no longer just helping developers write code. They are beginning to execute the work itself,…
Defence
Britain is being warned to prepare for mass mobilisation, but the real weakness lies deeper. The systems needed…
Economics
Oil prices remain elevated above $110 as disruption around the Strait of Hormuz erodes global supply buffers, with inventories falling and tanker flexibility tightening.
Britain
Britain
United States
Defence
Iran
The ceasefire did not fail because diplomacy never opened. It failed because the pause after Islamabad was asked to carry…
Germany
Russia’s decision to halt Kazakh oil transit to a key German refinery does not create a national fuel crisis, but…
Iran
Iran has sent no delegation to Islamabad, undermining assumptions that talks are underway. As the ceasefire weakens and maritime tensions rise, the absence of a diplomatic channel leaves markets exposed and Washington constrained. The…
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 danger is not simply…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Dario Amodei’s warning is larger than the future of programmers. The chief executive of Anthropic is describing a…
Economics
Europe’s aviation system is discovering that fuel was never just a commodity. It was a geopolitical dependency. As…
Economics
The UN has now voted to call the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. Britain abstained.…
United States
The White House says another round of talks with Iran may happen in Pakistan, but no date has been set…
Defence
Donald Trump’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a display of naval dominance. In reality it looks…