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Norbert Tofall Despite the very real structural weaknesses in the U.S. economy, no BRICS+ country – not even China – and not the group as a whole comes close to matching the role of the U.S. dollar in the world economy. The great contradiction Chinese officials like to …
July, 2026
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19 July
Global markets trade lower as US-Iran tensions, chip selloff weigh on sentiment
Global markets traded lower Friday as heavy selling in semiconductor shares and escalating US-Iran tensions weighed on investor sentiment. Chipmakers remained under pressure amid concerns over whether massive artificial intelligence investments will generate sufficient returns. Renewed attacks between Washington and Tehran also raised fears of further disruption to …
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19 July
Apple overtakes Nvidia as world’s most valuable company amid AI selloff
Mücahithan Avcıoğlu Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, as renewed selling pressure on artificial intelligence-related stocks weighed on the chipmaker. Apple’s market capitalization reached approximately $4.9 trillion during intraday trading, narrowly surpassing Nvidia’s valuation of $4.84 trillion. The change at …
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19 July
Why Did the EU’s Latest Russia Sanctions Package Shrink?
On July 17, the Council of the European Union quietly froze the assets of one Russian executive and five companies belonging to a single corporate family, ABS Electro, for supplying electronic components that make Russia’s Shahed and Geran attack drones harder to jam. That was the entire publicly …
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19 July
Renewed Gulf Hostilities, Elevated Regional and Global Uncertainty
By Dan Steinbock Renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities and Israel’s continuing military campaigns reflect rising risks of a wider Middle East conflict and elevated energy and food crises internationally. The United States and Iran traded new attacks overnight into Thursday, intensifying an exchange that has threatened the collapse of their agreement …
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19 July
The Iranian Question: Why “Permanent Solutions” Fail
Dr. Yashwant Singh Few phrases in statecraft are as seductive, and as historically unreliable, as the “permanent solution.” The term promises finality in a domain built on its absence: states adapt, ideologies mutate, and alliances presumed eternal dissolve within a generation. Four decades of policy toward the Islamic …
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19 July
NATO’s New Center of Gravity? Turkey, Britain, and the Reordering of the Euro-Atlantic Alliance
Hadi Elis The 2026 NATO Summit may ultimately be remembered not for its official communiqués, but for the questions it raised about the future direction of the Alliance. Beneath the familiar language of transatlantic solidarity, collective defense, and support for Ukraine, a more profound geopolitical shift appears to …
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19 July
What It Means for China and the Future of AI?
Dr.Nadya Hilmi UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres , Thailand Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar arrive for a group photo before the opening ceremony for the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, July 17, 2026. Ng Han Guan/Pool via …
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19 July
Washington and Tehran Now Agree that Sea is Billable
On July 14 the crews of the Mombasa and the Al Bahiyah found out. Two UAE-flagged tankers were hit by Iranian cruise missiles in the southern lane, inside Omani territorial waters, according to the Emirati defense ministry. An Indian sailor was killed and eight others were hurt, six …
