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PROFILE: The CRINK axis fractures — after the Iran-USA deal, Moscow, Beijing and Kim recalculate
The word CRINK — China, Russia, Iran, North Korea — has entered Western strategic vocabulary to describe what some analysts call the
DECODING: Hegseth threatens to cut US troops in Europe — understanding the transatlantic fracture
In June 2026, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announces a review of the American military presence in Europe — and conditions American
TESTIMONY: Europe closes its technological defence gap — AGILE, their collective wager
On June 25, 2026, the European Parliament adopts its position on the AGILE programme — Agile and Rapid Defence Innovation. This vote
ESSAY: Ankara muzzled, engines sold — Turkey plays its own tune in NATO
The NATO summit in Ankara, scheduled for July 7 and 8, 2026, is already tainted by a symbolically loaded controversy: on June
PROFILE: The E5 united — how five European capitals rewrote collective security
On June 24, 2026, the governments of France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Poland — the E5 group — jointly published
TESTIMONY: Beijing's 15-point FDI plan — seduction or genuine opening?
On June 23, 2026, Beijing published a 15-point plan aimed at "stabilizing foreign investment" in China. The timing is anything but incidental.
OPEN LETTER: Chinese consumption collapses — the economy that can no longer lie to itself
I am writing to you with numbers Beijing would have preferred never to publish. May 2026: Chinese retail sales contracted by 0.6%
ESSAY: ASEAN uses the Hormuz crisis to accelerate the South China Sea Code of Conduct
History holds crises that, instead of paralyzing, catalyze. The Strait of Hormuz crisis of March to June 2026 belongs in that category
PROFILE: Kim Jong-un, engineer of destruction — DPRK tests the artillery of the future
On June 25, 2026, Kim Jong-un personally inspected the latest North Korean conventional weapons tests, according to the official KCNA agency. Images