Election leaves Israel’s political future uncertain, but Netanyahu still clearly controls its present
Like Shimon Peres 30 years ago, Gadi Eisenkot thought the exit polls meant he’d defeated the Likud leader. Not so fast. Read More Here
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Lula, the great survivor, makes history
Latin America’s iconic left-wing statesman is Brazil’s president, again. Read More Here
Ruchir Sharma Evaluates India on the Rules of Economic Success
The Rockefeller International Chairman and Founder of Breakout Capital looks at India on the basis of the 10 creteria he developed when he was at Morgan Stanley. Read More Here
World has to learn to live through closures
In August Taiwan deliberately slowed down its own mobile internet, and the rest of the year has been busy proving it right. The civil defence exercises of 5 to 14 August throttled bandwidth on purpose in two thirty-minute windows, to test what the island’s communications would feel like under blockade. The defence ministry rehearsed relocating […]
China says key plenum will be held in October
Top leadership body will gather in Beijing, about a month after Xi Jinping is expected to travel to the United States. Read More Here
Xi Positions China’s Ruling Party as Global Force for Progress
Xi Jinping makes a case for China’s ruling party as a force for global progress and prosperity, signalling his ambition for the country to lead global affairs.
A World Distracted by Middle East Turmoil Should Focus on Africa
The world is distracted. The war in the Middle East has fractured supply chains, unsettled oil markets, and redirected the gaze of policymakers and investors toward the Gulf and beyond. Yet while global attention fixates on conflict, a quieter, more consequential story is unfolding across 54 nations and 1.4 billion people. Africa — long mischaracterized […]
When Chinese and US leaders meet
When the leaders of China and the United States speak or meet, the world pays attention. Read More Here
Mossadegh | The Shah | Khomeini | Khamenei: Four Spirits That Haunt the Space Between Iran and America
In the Persian language, the word ruh carries a weight that the English word ‘spirit’ only partially translates. It is at once the animating breath of the living and the residual force of the dead. The ruh does not simply vanish when its vessel is extinguished. It permeates the world it once shaped, bending the […]
The Moral Thinness of Geopolitics
The crisis in world order consists more in civilizational exhaustion than geopolitical imbalance. Read More Here
