Energy & Resources
Energy independence is the ultimate paradox: every move toward self-sufficiency, from national policy to rooftop solar, creates new dependencies. The only real autonomy is transparency and accountability in shared systems.
Geopolitics & Power
As APEC opens in Gyeongju, South Korea faces a test on two fronts: defending its trade treaty against U.S. pressure and showing that democracy can still hold its own in a world of power politics.
Geopolitics & Power
Globalization isn’t dying; it’s being rewired into regional systems. Here’s how blocs and corridors between Asia and Europe are building a new operating model—rules, routes, and finance that shift power through connectivity.
Energy & Resources
A single global grid could balance renewable power between continents — but sovereignty, security, and trust keep the world’s currents divided.
Tech & Industry
Software is becoming the world’s quiet constitution. This essay shows how control over code, data, and infrastructure is reshaping power — and what that means for everyday life.
Energy & Resources
China’s new export controls on key minerals are both retaliation and long-term strategy. As the U.S. and its allies scramble to secure supply, Beijing is shaping a new world order through the politics of resource dependence.
Tech & Industry
Crypto promised freedom from the state. Instead, it has become a new frontier of state power. Across the Global South, digital currencies and token systems are redefining what sovereignty means in a fractured financial world.
Energy & Resources
The Tigris–Euphrates basin once ran on an unwritten truce: seasonal releases, quiet committees, and downstream improvisation. Climate volatility and upstream control have erased that margin. Here’s how the “vanishing pact” failed — and what a workable order in a hotter basin would require.
Energy & Resources
Copper is the quiet force behind the energy transition. From Chile to Peru, the metal that wires the future is now reshaping global power itself.
Energy & Resources
China’s effective halt on U.S. soybean purchases marks more than a tariff dispute. By redesigning its feed economy and sourcing from Brazil, Beijing is recoding global agriculture and exposing how economic self-reliance reshapes the planet.
Geopolitics & Power
The U.S.–India–Gulf corridor was billed as a new trade spine linking Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Two years later, war, rivalry, and shifting alliances have exposed its limits, and revealed how connectivity itself has become a front in global power politics.
Geopolitics & Power
BRICS pitches itself as the future of a multipolar order. But beneath the solidarity brand are real fractures: India–China rivalry, Russia’s dependence, and diverging economic aims. Multipolarity is here; unity is not.