Iran Hopes That CPEC Branding Will Secure More Investment From China By Andrew Korybko Rebranding existing logistics corridors across its territory as part of CPEC is a means to this end. Iran’s Mehr News Agency and others reported that one of their country’s leading economic… Read More ›
Chevron In Caracas: Trump’s Strategic Swerve Amid Neo-Monroeist Rhetoric By Uriel Araujo Chevron’s return to Venezuela under Trump marks a striking policy reversal: it is all about inflation, oil prices, and US rivalry with China. The move comes amid rising domestic… Read More ›
Weaponizing Finance: De-Dollarization And The Rise Of BRICS’ New Development Bank By Uriel Araujo BRICS’ New Development Bank is emerging as a strategic tool for the Global South in challenging dollar dominance. As it expands membership and promotes local-currency lending while… Read More ›
Rouble Emerges As Top-performing Currency, Signalling BRICS’ Challenge To Dollar Dominance By Uriel Araujo Russia’s rouble, soaring 38% in 2025, outpaces gold and defies Western sanctions. This is potentially game-changing: amid Trump’s tariff wars, BRICS nations can leverage this success to… Read More ›
Trump’s Tariffs And Crypto Craze: A Geopolitical Gamble Threatening Bitcoin’s Rise By Uriel Araujo Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have shown extreme volatility. In response, sovereign nations may shift toward digital currencies backed by tangible assets like government bonds or reserves. In… Read More ›
Trump’s Tariffs: The Catalyst For A Multipolar Economic Revolution By Uriel Araujo Tariff escalation policy, intended to bolster American industry, is instead hastening the decline of American economic dominance. By pushing nations like China, Japan, and South Korea to band together,… Read More ›
Putin’s Economic Envoy Helped Break The Russian-US Impasse On Ukraine By Andrew Korybko Creative economic diplomacy was the key to getting their increasingly stalled talks back on track. Russian Special Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who’s also the CEO of the Russian… Read More ›
Here Are The Three Goals That Trump Wants To Achieve Through His Global Trade War By Andrew Korybko He hopes to strengthen the US’ supply chain sovereignty, renegotiate its ties with all countries with a view towards getting them to distance… Read More ›
It’s The Energy, Stupid! Trump, Musk, And The Global Race For Minerals And AI By Uriel Araujo Trump might be bent on “ending the Ukrainian war”, as he puts it, but there will be plenty of other wars to be fought…. Read More ›
Russia And Pakistan Will Comprehensively Expand Cooperation In The Resource Sector By Andrew Korybko Pakistan wants to reduce its disproportionate dependence on China, hence why it prefers for Russia to modernize its resource infrastructure instead of China, which aligns with US… Read More ›
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