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The West must choose
Editorial. Rearm, reform democracy, defend Taiwan, pick useful allies, end the naivety: five imperatives for the West. Now, or vanish within ten years.
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What the numbers really say
Commentary. Volt Typhoon inside our networks, shipyards at 230 to 1, twelve great-power rivalries out of sixteen ending in war. The number exists. The…
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The 2027–2030 window
Analysis. China and the West: a shift we still refuse to name. Balance of forces, grey-zone war, the 2027 deadline, industrial inertia: three trajectories,…
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The US-China power shift and the Thucydides Trap
Is war inevitable? How China’s meteoric rise against declining American hegemony is reviving history’s oldest geopolitical anxiety.
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The Trump Doctrine — transactionalism and the end of cost-free alliances
No more blank checks: how Donald Trump’s transactionalism turned historic alliances into strictly business deals.