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COMMENTARY: Trump, Russian Oil, and the Silent Betrayal of Ukraine
On June 16, 2026, on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, U.S. President Donald Trump uttered the words that

EDITORIAL: Hit Chinese forced labor, yes — punish democratic allies, no
On the night of June 2, 2026, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released the findings of sixty investigations

REPORT: The U.S.-China "Board of Trade," an Institutional Rapprochement Worrying the West
It was in Paris, at the OECD headquarters, on March 16, 2026, that the phrase was first uttered in public. Jamieson Greer,

ANALYSIS: US-China Truce, the Countdown to November 2026 Has Already Begun
There are dates that don't make the headlines and yet condition the global economic order. November 10, 2026 is one of them.

ANALYSIS: Supreme Court Validates Anti-China Tariffs—A Game-Changing Verdict in 2026
On June 15, 2026, in the characteristic discretion of America's highest court, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the challenge to

EDITORIAL: The Economic War of Attrition — The West Can Win, If Only It Holds On
On June 18, 2026, emerging from a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Brussels, Secretary General Mark Rutte dropped a statistic that

INVESTIGATION: America Is Silently Retiring from NATO — Europe Is Racing to Fill the Void at Breakneck Speed
On June 18, 2026, in the press conference room at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Secretary General Mark Rutte chose his words with

ANALYSIS: Fortress Europe — How the June 2026 Summit Buried the Peace Dividend
On June 18 and 19, 2026, in Brussels, the twenty-seven heads of state and government of the European Union held what some

ANALYSIS: The UK Misses the NATO Target — The British Link Falters Against the Russian Threat
On June 18, 2026, NATO defense ministers met in Brussels for their last major meeting before the Ankara summit, scheduled for July