As U.S.-China tensions deepen, the CPTPP is emerging as a potential third pillar for global trade and stability. The then Canadian trade minister with the president of a Japanese company at an event ...

Geopolitical competition in the Arctic and Antarctic is intensifying, with security overtaking climate concerns. Global competition in the world’s polar regions is escalating. The nature of the ...

The development of a non-Western payment system is gathering pace. BRICS countries are moving their focus from the ambitious goal of a shared BRICS currency to more feasible targets, such as increased ...

Africa’s continental free trade pact promises integration, but uneven reforms and external dependence risk keeping the vision out of reach. Namibia launched its first AfCFTA trade with a salt shipment ...

China’s dominance over rare earths gives Beijing powerful leverage in trade, technology and strategic negotiations. Metal cubes representing rare earth elements including neodymium (Nd), praseodymium ...

Technology is no longer merely a sector of the economy; it has become the economy itself. Over the last three decades, waves of digitization have woven code into every productive process, while the ...

Pakistan’s military edge in the recent air conflict with India has boosted the reputation of the Chinese defense industry. The Chengdu J-10C is a Chinese-built fighter jet designed for long-range air ...

Transnational organized crime poses an increasingly serious threat to public safety, democratic governance and state legitimacy in Latin America. Once primarily concentrated in countries like Mexico ...

Geopolitical ambitions, ethnic divisions and contested access to the sea and fresh water are intensifying anxieties in Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Tigray region. The port of Massawa is one of the ...

The United States Energy Information Administration (EIA), the statistical and analytical agency within the Department of Energy, projects that the country will set a new oil production record this ...

If history teaches anything, it is that ignoring past conflicts invites future catastrophes. Opening of the documentary exhibition “Maidan Cases: On the Way to Justice and History” at the Memorial to ...

China has entered a deflationary cycle, exposing stark economic disparities amid slowing growth and cautious policy changes. China has been facing ongoing deflation, with prices declining for six ...