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South China Sea at Ten: A Bigger Coalition, a Smaller Sea
A decade on, the coalition defending the 2016 ruling finally spans four continents — but the water Beijing controls has grown faster than the paper condemning it.
The Strait Closes Again: How a Son's Grief, a President's Boast, and Twenty Percent of the World's Oil Are About to Collide
This is not the return of a war. It is the moment a wounded regime, a dead cleric's son, and a president who declared victory all discover they need the...
South Africa: When the Rainbow Nation Turns on the Continent
This is not a riot cycle. It is the collapse of the Pan-African compact — organised, funded, and legitimised in ways post-apartheid South Africa has not seen before.
The missile that was actually a message: China's SLBM test and the quiet rewriting of the Pacific
China didn't test a missile on Monday. It test-marketed a nuclear posture — and the audience, in order, was Canberra, Suva, and Washington.
NATO Summit Opens in Ankara: Trump Renews Greenland Threat, Lifts Turkey Sanctions
Ankara 2026 will be remembered as the summit where NATO armed itself for the wars of tomorrow while its leaders could not agree on who the enemy was today.
Tanzania's Saba Saba: A Ruling Party's Anniversary Becomes a Test of East African Democracy
The protesters didn't pick a date — they picked three, and forced the regime to defend a birthday, a trade fair, and a pro-democracy anniversary on the same morning.
Indo-Pacific Companion: Qingdao, Taipei, and the Second Front
The Pacific is no longer sequential to the Middle East — Qingdao next week is the first public rehearsal of a two-theatre coupling that Washington's force posture is not yet...
The peacemaker photo op that Russia paid nothing for
Putin gave Trump the peacemaker frame he wants; Russia gave up nothing, and Ukraine spent the same day burying its dead in Crimea.
The Islamabad MoU Under a Funeral Shroud — Iran's succession, Israel's threat, and the diplomacy holding by grip
The ceasefire between the United States and Iran is holding by grip, not by trust. Israel is testing its ceiling in public, and the state funeral in Tehran is being...
The Room Iran Won't Sit In — Doha, Ankara, and the Ceasefire That Isn't Quite a Ceasefire
Iran didn't reject peace on Tuesday. It rejected the room. That distinction is the whole story — and it lands squarely on top of next week's NATO summit in Ankara.
When the State Concedes the Pavement: South Africa's June 30 Deadline
A non-state movement has just successfully run South Africa's migration policy for a week, and the state agreed by not contradicting it.
The Pakistan–Afghanistan border war nobody is calling a war
Pakistan and the Taliban are no longer awkward neighbours managing a militant problem — they are fighting an undeclared border war, and the civilians are losing it.
The week depopulation became policy
The depopulation debate has crossed from forecast to policy — and the smart question is no longer how to reverse it, but which governments are already redesigning institutions around fewer...
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