Thailand Port

Southeast Asia Crossroads: US Supreme Court Voids Trump’s Emergency Tariffs and Forces Rethink of Executive Trad

The United States Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Donald Trump’s tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) has sent tremors far beyond Washington. In a 6–3 ruling, the Court curtailed one of the most expansive...
Gaza Strip

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and Corporate Takeover of Gaza: A New Geopolitical Experiment Unfolds

Donald Trump is no longer positioning himself merely as a mediator in the traditional diplomatic mold. Instead, the US president has effectively appointed himself chief restructuring officer of what he describes as a “systemically bankrupt” entity: the Gaza Strip. Through...
China AI

Chips and Chatbots: How China Is Redefining Artificial Intelligence Race by Embedding Intelligence into the State Itself

The United States tightens chip exports. Chinese laboratories unveil competitive large language models. Analysts publish league tables comparing benchmark scores, parameter counts and training runs. Television panels debate who is “ahead” in artificial intelligence. The vocabulary borrows from sport and...
Asia markets

Asia Braces for Next Shock Trump’s Tariff Powers Are Curbed, Refund Battles Loom and Dollar Devaluation Rattles Global Finance

Asia’s markets exhaled — briefly — after the Supreme Court of the United States struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping use of emergency powers to impose tariffs. But relief quickly gave way to apprehension. In trading rooms from Tokyo to...
BRICS Currency

BRICS Charts New Monetary Course: How BRICS Basket and Digital Clearing Platform Could Gradually Supplant Dollar’s Reserve Role

The international monetary system was never neutral. It was the product of power, politics and post-war compromise, forged in July 1944 at the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire. There, representatives of 44 Allied nations gathered to design a framework...
Japan, China

Why China’s Property Crash and Deflation Pressures Are Stirring Memories of Japan’s Economic Collapse

Beneath the gleaming skyline of Shanghai and the global dominance of China’s electric vehicle supply chains, a deeper unease is spreading across the world’s second-largest economy. Economists and policymakers alike are increasingly gripped by a sense of déjà vu —...
Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency Flows to Suspected Human Trafficking Networks Surge Southeast Asian Scam Ecosystems

The intersection of cryptocurrency and suspected human trafficking intensified dramatically in 2025, with total transaction volumes reaching hundreds of millions of dollars across identified services — an 85% year-over-year increase. While the financial growth is stark, the true cost of...
Anthropic AI

US Alleged Use of Anthropic Claude in Venezuela Raid Raises Global Alarm Over AI-Driven Warfare and Civilian Casualties

The US technology firm Anthropic has found itself at the center of a growing international controversy following reports that its artificial intelligence model, Claude, was used by the Pentagon during a January 3 military operation in Venezuela that left 83...
USS Abraham Lincoln

US-Iran Standoff: USS Abraham Lincoln Deployment Signals Resolve, Yet Strategic Reality Points to Talks Over Bombs

US-Iran crisis:  Another round of aircraft carrier deployments and ultimatums, another set of dire predictions about imminent war in the Middle East. Yet here we are again, watching Washington and Tehran engage in a ritualized choreography of brinkmanship that has...
Reko Diq copper-gold project

Balochistan’s Buried Billions: China-Pakistan Investments in Reko Diq Redefine Risk, Reshape Regional Trade Routes and Intensify Global Resource Competition

Renewed Chinese and Pakistani investment in the long-delayed Reko Diq copper-gold project is reshaping perceptions of Balochistan, suggesting that major investors are reassessing both the scale of the province’s buried mineral wealth and the strategic logic of remaining engaged despite...
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