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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Globe Desk: The European Union has formally signed onto Washington's secondary sanctions against Iran, escalating the financial blockade we've tracked over the past week. Meanwhile, a maj…
Today on The Globe Desk: A 19-to-1 split at the G20 just upended a joint communique over industrial overcapacity. We also examine the Pentagon's planned drawdown from Persian Gulf bases, a structural …
A distinct pattern of multi-alignment is accelerating across the Global South. From Xi Jinping's high-stakes arrival in Cairo to formal rejections of U.S. sanctions by Pakistan and China, middle power…
Today on The Globe Desk: A wave of structural agreements across Central Asia is rapidly formalizing an alternative overland trade architecture. Beyond the latest SCO summit and Caspian integration pac…
Today on The Globe Desk: Beijing is directly ordering domestic firms to disregard Washington's newly formalized secondary sanctions on Iranian trade. Alongside that explicit standoff, we examine a mas…
Today on The Globe Desk: With the Strait of Hormuz closure entering its sixth month, the resulting energy squeeze is accelerating the push for parallel trade infrastructure. We examine concrete advanc…
American energy statecraft just escalated dramatically in Latin America, with Washington stepping in to directly operate Venezuelan oil reserves. We also examine a massive debt restructuring breakthro…
The map of global trade is being rapidly rewritten around major maritime chokepoints, with Central Asian land corridors and pan-African payment networks increasingly bypassing traditional transit and …
Moscow and New Delhi are advancing a massive bilateral trade agreement that explicitly circumvents Western clearing rails, setting the tone for today's briefing. We also examine Beijing's deployment o…
Today on The Globe Desk: U.S. financial statecraft hits a wall in Asia, while middle powers and small island states construct pragmatic trade rails outside major power blocs.