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Europe Is Becoming a Chinese Colony
How Europe’s trade imbalance with China is becoming a vulnerability for jobs, manufacturing, and security.
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Coverage organised by theatre and theme, so a reader can follow one story across months.
- Europe8
- China & the Indo-Pacific4
- Russia & Ukraine5
- United States6
- Iran & the Middle East2
- Climate, Food & Water3
- South Asia2
The European Union, its economy, its defence and the pressures pulling it apart.
Analysis · Russia & Ukraine
Russia Is Frustrated. Europe will be targeted next.
Britain crosses Moscow’s red lines, and NATO’s defences run dangerously low.
Analysis · Europe
How Far Can Europe Go for Ukraine?
Europe has become Ukraine’s biggest financial backer. The real question is whether Europe’s own economy can survive the cost.
Chinese power, Taiwan, trade and the contest for Asia.
Research brief · Europe
Europe Is Becoming a Chinese Colony
How Europe’s trade imbalance with China is becoming a vulnerability for jobs, manufacturing, and security.
Analysis · China & the Indo-Pacific
China Won’t Invade Taiwan. It Will Quarantine It.
A blockade is an act of war. A quarantine is paperwork
Analysis · United States
Trump Doesn’t Want Money From His Allies. He Wants Their Soldiers.
South Korea pay the price of the US security guaranty
The war, its economy and what Moscow does next.
Analysis · Russia & Ukraine
Russia Is Frustrated. Europe will be targeted next.
Britain crosses Moscow’s red lines, and NATO’s defences run dangerously low.
Analysis · Climate, Food & Water
The World Is Moving Toward a Food Crisis. Russia Could Be the Last Resort.
War, fertiliser shortages, export restrictions and El Niño are breaking the global food chain
Analysis · Europe
How Far Can Europe Go for Ukraine?
Europe has become Ukraine’s biggest financial backer. The real question is whether Europe’s own economy can survive the cost.
American strategy, the dollar economy and the alliances built on both.
Analysis · United States
Trump Doesn’t Want Money From His Allies. He Wants Their Soldiers.
South Korea pay the price of the US security guaranty
Analysis · Iran & the Middle East
The U.S. Imported Iranian Oil While Bombing Iran
For one month, a quiet Treasury licence made Iranian crude legal in American ports
Analysis · United States
When Will America’s Economic Doomsday Actually Hit?
There are five things that have to happen first — and two of them happened this week.
Iran, oil, sanctions and the wars around the Gulf.
Analysis · Iran & the Middle East
The U.S. Imported Iranian Oil While Bombing Iran
For one month, a quiet Treasury licence made Iranian crude legal in American ports
Analysis · Iran & the Middle East
Iran Is Waiting for the US Midterm Elections
In 1980, It Waited for the American Election, and It Is Waiting Again.
Weather, harvests, rivers and the geopolitics they produce.
Analysis · South Asia
China’s Water Bomb Has Exploded in Nepal — and the World Is Silent
Climate change broke the mountain, but China’s upstream secrecy and the world’s silence turned disaster into catastrophe.
Analysis · Climate, Food & Water
The World Is Moving Toward a Food Crisis. Russia Could Be the Last Resort.
War, fertiliser shortages, export restrictions and El Niño are breaking the global food chain
Analysis · Climate, Food & Water
The Biggest El Niño Since 1877 Could Hit Harder
This time, we have 18 months’ warning — and still no plan.
India, Pakistan, Nepal and the Himalayan frontier.
Analysis · South Asia
China’s Water Bomb Has Exploded in Nepal — and the World Is Silent
Climate change broke the mountain, but China’s upstream secrecy and the world’s silence turned disaster into catastrophe.
Analysis · South Asia
India-Pakistan: The Next Major War?
5 ways India can respond to the terrorist attack by Pakistan