Thought you could have a nice, relaxed, geopolitics-free weekend? Perhaps pop down to Home Depot if you get time? Wrong. Following a day of mysterious security alerts for US and Israeli diplomats in the Middle East (suggesting they had intel something was up), Israel has now struck targets in Iran. The dust is still settling, […]
Sometimes, the shortest press releases generate the most headlines. Take Thursday’s press release from China’s state broadcaster: “Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday held phone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the latter’s request.” As you’d expect, given the feverish geopolitical climate of today, those 18 words were enough to trigger a visceral reaction in any US-China […]
It’s finally June, and you know what that means! Summer’s The Shangri-La Dialogue is finally back, bringing together generals, leaders, security folks, and academics from 47 countries. Here are five of the most intriguing quotes from this year’s summit: In keeping with the tone of Trump 2.0, Hegseth’s keynote speech was anything but low-key. In this instance, […]
We used to get bombshell trade news like once a decade. These days? Try once a day. Wednesday spiced things up when a US court you never heard of overruled most of President Trump’s tariffs. Then an appeals court took Thursday by overruling the overrule. First, who’s the Court of International Trade (CIT)? It’s a […]
Thought you could have a nice, relaxed, geopolitics-free weekend? Perhaps pop down to Home Depot if you get time? Wrong. Following a day of mysterious security alerts for US and Israeli diplomats in the Middle East (suggesting they had intel something was up), Israel has now struck targets in Iran. The dust is still settling, […]
Sometimes, the shortest press releases generate the most headlines. Take Thursday’s press release from China’s state broadcaster: “Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday held phone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the latter’s request.” As you’d expect, given the feverish geopolitical climate of today, those 18 words were enough to trigger a visceral reaction in any US-China […]
It’s finally June, and you know what that means! Summer’s The Shangri-La Dialogue is finally back, bringing together generals, leaders, security folks, and academics from 47 countries. Here are five of the most intriguing quotes from this year’s summit: In keeping with the tone of Trump 2.0, Hegseth’s keynote speech was anything but low-key. In this instance, […]
We used to get bombshell trade news like once a decade. These days? Try once a day. Wednesday spiced things up when a US court you never heard of overruled most of President Trump’s tariffs. Then an appeals court took Thursday by overruling the overrule. First, who’s the Court of International Trade (CIT)? It’s a […]
