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Geopolitics, demographics, and the forces reshaping the world
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Recent Briefings
Today on The Globe Desk: the multipolar architecture is no longer rhetorical. Xi and Putin's Beijing joint statement now includes operational substance, the UN has institutionalized the Iran-war oil s…
Today on The Globe Desk: Putin arrives in Beijing one day after Trump departs, with a 47-page joint declaration on a 'multipolar world' on the table. Beneath the diplomatic theater — Asian currencies …
Today on The Globe Desk: the Iran-war inflation shock is now in the bond market — synchronized global yield spikes, EM capital flight accelerating, and JPMorgan's early-June inventory stress window dr…
Today on The Globe Desk: the post-Beijing-summit order is settling — a US-China relationship that signals without delivering, a BRICS held together by accommodating its own fractures, and a Hormuz cri…
Today on The Globe Desk: institutions hitting their limits. BRICS can't bridge the Iran-UAE split, the rupiah breaks 17,500, Ghana's record trade surplus is generating almost no jobs, and the Trump-Xi…
Today on The Globe Desk: the alternatives to the post-1945 order are no longer theoretical. Saudi Arabia drafts a Gulf security pact that leaves out Washington and Tel Aviv; BRICS members publicly acc…
Today on The Globe Desk: the polite fictions of the post-Cold War order are being retired in public. China's intellectuals openly debate dropping non-interference, Nigeria names credit-rating asymmetr…
Today on The Globe Desk: BRICS lands in Delhi visibly split over Iran while US and Chinese officials hold quiet pre-summit talks in Seoul, Nairobi's declaration reframes African development financing …
Today on The Globe Desk: BRICS meets in Delhi minus China's foreign minister, while Trump lands in Beijing — and India quietly blocks the bloc's consensus on Iran. Beneath the summit theater, a sharpe…
Today on The Globe Desk: the Trump-Xi Beijing summit reframed not as a trade meeting but as a convergence point for four entangled systems — Hormuz shipping, sanctions law, supply chains, and successi…