Maxime Marquette
Independent columnist · MadMax
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INVESTIGATION: Beijing cuts Africa to 2.1 billion in loans…
2.1 billion — the lowest figure in almost twenty years, according…
SPECIAL REPORT: Beijing Promises Stimulus as Its Households Give…
That is the growth rate of Chinese industrial output in July,…
INVESTIGATION: Two Chinese Ex-Soldiers Arrested in Seoul as 18,000…
For five years, a man ran a military-supply shop at the…
SPECIAL REPORT: Beijing buys 40 cargoes of sanctioned Russian…
On August 28, 2025, a tanker named Arctic Mulan moored at…
EDITORIAL: Trump approves H200 chips for Beijing and takes…
On December 8, 2025, two announcements landed in Washington, the same…
ANALYSIS: Marcos Talks Drilling With Beijing While His Fishermen…
That is what moves through the South China Sea every year.…
ANALYSIS : Taiwan Puts NT$1,122.5 Billion Into Defence, Over…
Hold that number for a moment, because it marks the crossing…
INVESTIGATION : Russia's FSB Erases 4 Ukrainian Regions' Border…
Not an assault, not an ultimatum, not a televised proclamation from…
COLUMN : Europe Moved 8.5 Billion Euros in a…
That is what the European Commission says it has disbursed for…
INVESTIGATION: 36 States Sign in Chișinău — and the…
Thirty-four members of the Council of Europe, plus Australia, plus Costa…
ANALYSIS: 313 Votes, a 20th Extension — Ukraine Keeps…
313 votes to approve the presidential decree extending martial law by…
REPORT: One Year Past the August 18 Ultimatum, Ukraine's…
At midnight on August 18, 2025, the deadline expired that the…
DOSSIER: 60,000 Russian passports in Transnistria — the annexation…
More than sixty thousand applications for Russian citizenship in three months,…
ANALYSIS: 800 drones over Russia in one night —…
More than eight hundred drones, in a single night, August 14…
INVESTIGATION: 316 political cases in Crimea — the occupation…
Three hundred and sixteen people are being prosecuted on political grounds…