The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing ultimately revealed less about resolving U.S.-China tensions than about the evolving mechanisms by which both governments are attempting to manage a relationship increasingly defined by long-term strategic competition. Meeting in China for the first time since 2017, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping projected a
On May 11, Beijing announced that U.S. President Donald Trump would visit China from May 13 to 15, just two days before the summit was due to begin. The timing drew attention. Trump had publicly confirmed the visit weeks earlier, while Beijing had kept a deliberately measured public stance, stating
The eighth meeting of the European Political Community (EPC), convening today in Yerevan, Armenia, offers an instructive case study in how multilateral institutions can conflate geopolitical theatre with genuine strategic purpose — at considerable, largely unquantified cost to European taxpayers and, ultimately, to European credibility. I. Origins and Original Sin Created in
Executive Summary The United Arab Emirates’ withdrawal from OPEC, effective in late April, marks more than an institutional rupture within the world’s most consequential energy cartel. It signals the start of a new competitive era in global oil markets — one in which the architecture of supply is being redrawn
A Continent That Chose Comfort Over Responsibility The announced reduction of U.S. troops from Germany is not a crisis imposed upon Europe. It is a consequence Europe has brought on itself, through decades of deliberate underinvestment, chronic free-riding, and a political culture that consistently prioritised welfare spending and intra-European squabbling