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What Canada’s Submarine Decision Means for South Korean Arms Exports

Canada's submarine choice highlights a key lesson: modern arms sales depend not only on capability and price, but also on alliances, strategic trust, and long-term security partnerships. South Korea must sell relationships, not just weapons.

Epstein Case and the Crisis of Transparency in the West

The Epstein case is no longer just about one predator. It’s about whether Western institutions can investigate power honestly — or whether wealth, influence, and secrecy will always outrun accountability.

The New Phase of U.S.-China Economic Competition

The U.S.-China rivalry is no longer defined by tariffs alone. AI chips, export controls, rare earths, and strategic supply chains have become the real battlegrounds of global power in the emerging economic order.

Sun Tzu’s Art of War is What Trump Needs

Since my last article on the trade war in April, many have asked whether America or China would win the war. I have no...

The Perfect Conditions Created by Trump for the Rise of China

The post-WW2 US-led liberal global order is crumbling before our eyes and Otto von Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies, “We live in a wondrous...

The Internal and External Implications of the Colombian Elections

First, the good news. Colombia went to the polls last weekend and did so largely peacefully. Not only this but, as should be the...

The Trump Effect: The Epitome of the Incoherence of the Incoherence1

Following the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations in maintaining order and peace in the world, the United Nations was established on October 24,...

Strategic Planning in the 21st Century

There is a broad consensus among pundits, experts and strategic thinkers that the international order is in transition, if not in disarray, due to...

Make China Weak Again

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are planning a trip to Beijing for trade discussions. This apparent “truce” came after...

Are We Ready for the Red Pill?

It took me a week to gather myself to write this. I was so disturbed by the news that US, Britain and France decided...

US Last Efforts to Keep its Presence in the South China Sea

After a series of accidents involving US 7th Fleet based in Japan, the latest FONOP in the South China Sea conducted by USS Hopper...

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What Canada’s Submarine Decision Means for South Korean Arms Exports

Canada's submarine choice highlights a key lesson: modern arms sales depend not only on capability and price, but also on alliances, strategic trust, and long-term security partnerships. South Korea must sell relationships, not just weapons.

Can Abiy Ahmed Afford His Power in Ethiopia’s Political Marketplace?

Abiy Ahmed's political capital is shrinking as insecurity, inflation, elite fragmentation, and dependence on external patrons drive up the cost of power. Can Ethiopia's political marketplace sustain his rule much longer?

BRICS+ cooperation in a complex economic and geopolitical environment: Opportunities and impediments

BRICS+ offers vast potential in trade, technology and local currency cooperation, but geopolitical rivalries and divergent strategic priorities will shape whether it emerges as a cohesive force or remains a loose coalition.

BRICS and De-Dollarization: Is the Global Financial Order Really Changing?

BRICS may not end dollar dominance, but it is accelerating a shift toward a more multipolar financial order where currencies, influence, and economic power are becoming increasingly contested.

Between Two Fronts: Why Japan-South Korea Security Cooperation Is No Longer Optional

Japan and South Korea can no longer afford fragmented security policies. In a Taiwan-Korea dual contingency, coordination is no longer strategic preference, but the foundation of deterrence and regional stability.