Economics

The ongoing confusion in Washington over President Donald Trump’s recent peace plan for Ukraine highlights the risks associated with his unique style of diplomacy, which has both domestic and international implications. The unexpected plan proposed two weeks ago, characterized by Trump’s typical approach, required significant concessions from both …

In 1925, power in Asia was visible: gunboats on rivers, foreign police in Chinese streets, tram boycotts you could photograph. In 2025, it’s programmable: licenses that renew on a clock, standards embedded in software, compliance that lives in dashboards. That is the most important change over the hundred …

Francesco Sisci Just hours before Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York, the most important and iconic American city, Dick Cheney, the heart and mind of traditional, centrist conservative America, passed away. Perhaps a new America is born with the virtual competition between two rare specimens of …

Lyle Goldstein Trump’s boat strikes risk escalating into a new forever war and may invite a Chinese military presence in Latin America Aerial view of a US strike on an alleged drug boat that left Venezuela. Image: X Screengrab Having once promised to halt America’s “endless wars,” Donald …

Mireille Bogas Anyone who thinks gold’s surge into the stratosphere represents irrational exuberance isn’t paying attention to the wretched state of the Group of Seven (G7) economies. As the price of gold skyrockets, it serves as a sentinel, warning us of deeper systemic issues festering beneath the surface. …

Raymond Vickery The United States still has the ability to keep the Russia-India relationship from expanding. Russian president Vladimir Putin arrives in New Delhi on December 4 for two days of talks in the 23rd annual India-Russia Summit. He will be greeted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with …

Oton Leon People often perceive Canada’s defense posture as closely aligned with the United States and integrated into continental and alliance structures such as NORAD and NATO. This focus has led to a lack of discussion about small-state autonomy or asymmetric denial in Canadian strategic debates. The porcupine …

Wina Siman In February 2025, President Donald Trump praised the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) as ‘one of the greatest trade routes in history.’ While such optimism sounds appealing on the diplomatic stage, the author argues that the IMEC is fundamentally flawed and more likely to join the …

Dragos Ionita Japan and China are in their most dangerous diplomatic crisis in years as escalating tensions over Taiwan have cancelled earlier hopes of post-pandemic improvement. After COVID-19 restrictions were mostly lifted by 2023, relations between Beijing and Tokyo seemed to slowly improve. However, by late 2025 a …