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EDITORIAL: Trump approves H200 chips for Beijing and takes a 25% cut — but his own hawks call the levy illegal
On December 8, 2025, two announcements landed in Washington, the same day, a few hours apart.
ANALYSIS: Marcos Talks Drilling With Beijing While His Fishermen Are Kept Off a $3 Trillion Sea
That is what moves through the South China Sea every year. Gulf oil, Taiwanese chips, Brazilian soy, the containers that end up in our…
ANALYSIS: Taiwan Puts NT$1,122.5 Billion Into Defence, Over 3% of GDP — While Beijing Calls It a Charade
Hold that number for a moment, because it marks the crossing of a threshold no one on the island has ever crossed before. For…
INVESTIGATION: Russia's FSB Erases 4 Ukrainian Regions' Border on Paper — But the Line Won't Move an Inch
Not an assault, not an ultimatum, not a televised proclamation from the Kremlin. Two draft administrative orders, quietly filed on August 13 on Russia's…
COLUMN: Europe Moved 8.5 Billion Euros in a Month — Ukraine Is Waiting Under the Missiles With 1% in Stock
That is what the European Commission says it has disbursed for Ukraine's defence since late June. €8.5 billion in a single month, drawn from…
INVESTIGATION: 36 States Sign in Chișinău — and the Lukashenko File Keeps Waiting for The Hague
Thirty-four members of the Council of Europe, plus Australia, plus Costa Rica, plus the European Union: the Enlarged Partial Agreement giving the future Special…
ANALYSIS: 313 Votes, a 20th Extension — Ukraine Keeps Waiting to Vote for a Peace Moscow Refuses
313 votes to approve the presidential decree extending martial law by 90 days — in force at 5:30 a.m. on August 2, running until…
REPORT: One Year Past the August 18 Ultimatum, Ukraine's Moscow-Linked Church Is Still Waiting for a Verdict
At midnight on August 18, 2025, the deadline expired that the Ukrainian state had set for the country's largest religious structure to prove, documents…
SPECIAL REPORT: 60,000 Russian passports in Transnistria — the annexation waiting behind a consular window
More than sixty thousand applications for Russian citizenship in three months, in a sliver of Moldovan territory wedged between the Dniester River and the…