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Recent Briefings
Today on The Globe Desk: Iran's yuan-denominated Hormuz tariff regime, Sudan's self-financing war economy, Indonesia's central bank running out of tools, and the Philippines crossing into aging-societ…
Today on The Globe Desk: middle powers are no longer hedging quietly — Saudi Arabia opens a Shanghai PIF office, Egypt-Pakistan-Saudi-Turkey form a new Middle Eastern quadrilateral, and Pascal Lamy de…
Today on The Globe Desk: the Iran war is repricing the dollar's plumbing as RMB oil settlement hits 41%, Europe's Yerevan summit institutionalizes Russia's Caucasus retreat, and the IOM's 2026 migrati…
Today on The Globe Desk: the IMF abandons its baseline as Iran-UAE missiles break Hormuz containment, US allies openly hedge toward Beijing, and the demographic squeeze forces Seoul, Tokyo, and Brusse…
Today on The Globe Desk: China's blocking law turns sanctions defiance into enforceable law, Iran-Russia yuan flows surge as last-resort settlement, the Hormuz crisis triggers an $800B India capex piv…
Today on The Globe Desk: the BRICS payments architecture moves from rhetoric to technical specs, Russia institutionalizes yuan dependency, and Turkey joins the existential demographic club. Plus: how …
Today on The Globe Desk: May 1 lands as a structural inflection — UAE leaves OPEC, China-Africa zero tariffs activate, EU-Mercosur takes effect, and Iran's economy enters measurable collapse. Undernea…
Today on The Globe Desk: a Gramscian read of the unfinished US transition, America's quiet loss of the Central Asian critical-minerals upstream, and East Asia's wager that AI governance can substitute…
Today on The Globe Desk: the Saudi-UAE rupture inside OPEC goes structural, China's zero-tariff opening to 53 African states goes live, Mali and Burkina Faso move from rhetoric to building a Sahelian …
Today on The Globe Desk: a Marxist reframing of the Sahel crisis, the UAE's exit from OPEC, Mali's regime in freefall, and the demographic inversions reshaping Britain, Russia, and India's window of o…