Dr. Imran Khalid
This Is America’s Suez, and France Is Paying for It
Emmanuel Macron came home from the Gulf last week with diesel cargoes and a single word for Donald…
Brazil Made Meta Answer for Its Algorithm. America Cannot
Brazil’s electoral prosecutor has told the country’s top election court that Meta, the American owner of Facebook, Instagram…
Hormuz Did Not Write the Budget Behind France’s Riots
Emmanuel Macron needed one sentence on Sunday night to move the cause of France’s riots some 5,000 kilometres…
Europe Is Reaching for the Wrong Weapon Against Chinese Hybrids
Renault’s shares jumped 6.1 percent on Wednesday and Volkswagen’s 4.6 percent after a Bloomberg report that Brussels was preparing…
Beyond the American Umbrella – The Mecca Pact and the New Middle East
On Monday, while the defence and foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey sat in an emergency…
Europe is learning what it means to be a security client
teve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spent three hours with Vladimir Putin on 5 September, then flew on to…
China’s financial blueprint offers what markets are short of: predictability
On September 16, the US Federal Reserve raised its policy rate by a quarter point to a range of…
What’s Really at Stake at the Xi-Trump Summit – Securing Global Trade Passages
As Xi Jinping prepares to meet Donald Trump in Washington this week, the usual checklist of summit topics - Taiwan,…
Europe Traded Its Gas Contracts for Gas Prices
The European Central Bank raised its deposit rate to 2.5 per cent on 10 September, its second increase in three…
The Gulf’s Security Just Became a Market
For seventy years, the defense of the Persian Gulf ran as an American franchise. Oil moved, the Fifth…
Zelensky’s crisis is quietly becoming Europe’s
Before dawn on 1 August, Russian ballistic missiles killed at least nine people in Kyiv and forced Volodymyr…
France and Guinea Turned Restitution into a Political Bargain
In the reserves of the Musée de l'Armée in Paris sits a manuscript that France and Guinea have…
Ukraine’s War Now Turns on European Budget Votes, Not Battlefields
Volodymyr Zelensky's decision to dismiss Ukraine's commander-in-chief on 21 July quickly became more than a military reshuffle. Outside…
Europe Faces a Stagnation Crisis Driven by Maritime Energy Escalation
The European Central Bank left benchmark interest rates unchanged at 2.25 percent on July 23, forced into a…
Writing on Watermarked Paper – The Fragile Architecture of Syria’s New Chapter
The deputies were bused to the chamber without being told the hour they would sit. That is how…