World Politics

The momentum of China’s uneven 2025 recovery continued into the first six months of this year, but amid a decline in many sectors. Fixed asset investment fell 2.6% year-on-year by the end of 2025, and continued to fall into the first two quarters of 2026. Accurate data has yet to be collated. Private investment dropped… Continue reading China’s Economic Crossroads: Growth, Inequality and Geopolitical Pressures
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There is something deeply unsettling about the way the Indonesian government is signaling its priorities. When an earthquake struck East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), the government, state-owned enterprises and Danantara opened a public fundraising drive as part of Indonesia’s Independence Day celebrations. Quick-response (QR) codes were displayed at three public entertainment stages, collecting 2.16 billion rupiah… Continue reading Indonesia’s Government Seeks Public Donations for NTT Disaster: Where Are Its Priorities?
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At the risk of mixing metaphors, much of the usually relentlessly partisan Republican majority’s “shadow docket” strategy to facilitate US President Donald Trump’s anticonstitutional excesses always had a problem, because much of it consisted transparently of “kicking the [constitutional] can down the road,” delaying judgment — but sooner or later, that can was going to… Continue reading The US Supreme Court Blinks: Tariffs, Partisan Justice and the Court-Packing Debate
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Guy Debord (1931–1994), was a French writer and filmmaker who cofounded the Situationist International, a late 1950s radical European avant-garde movement, which preached that, in the modern age, people had become like American science fiction author Philip K. Dick’s androids, dreaming of electric sheep, machines that simulate life to fill the emotional void left behind… Continue reading The Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping Spectacle
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History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a deafening silence regarding the systematic butchery of the Iranian people by the Islamic Republic, contrasted against the ever-present, mobilized rage against the… Continue reading The Great Betrayal: Why the Western Left Ignores Iranian Victims
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The Indian subcontinent is undergoing profound political, economic and ideological churns. Afghanistan has returned to Taliban rule, Pakistan is trapped in economic collapse and civil–military dysfunction, Bangladesh is plummeting into Islamist mobilization, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are facing political and economic fragility, and Myanmar’s junta is involved in civil war. These developments directly… Continue reading Defense Without Strategy: India’s Strategic Pretense
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a standing ovation at last week’s Munich Security Conference in Germany after delivering a speech the conference chair, retired German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger, effusively described as “reassuring.” Speaking for the entire audience, he drew Rubio’s attention to “the sigh of relief” heard “through this hall.” The timing was… Continue reading Marco Rubio Reassures Europe to Death
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Two weeks after US President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve Chair, risky assets are struggling to crawl back to their pre-announcement levels. Some market participants realized belatedly that Warsh is not as hawkish as his past views purport, while others still believe in the institutional robustness of… Continue reading Should Powell Stay on the Warsh Board?
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