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Column· No. 838

COLUMN: Beijing and Africa — zero tariffs for 53 nations, free trade as an instrument of empire

On May 1, 2026, China officially implemented what Xi Jinping had announced on February 14, 2026 at the 39th African Union Summit in Addis…

Analysis· No. 834

FACT-CHECK: The EU-USA Trade Deal, Torpedoed in 48 Hours by Trump?

On Thursday June 25, 2026, the member states of the European Union gave their final green light to the trade agreement concluded with Washington.…

Essay· No. 833

ESSAY: DeepSeek V4, Open Source as a Geopolitical Weapon

On April 24, 2026, DeepSeek released on Hugging Face two models under an MIT license: DeepSeek V4-Pro, a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 1.6 trillion total…

Analysis· No. 830

ANALYSIS: Trump and the 100% Digital Tariff — Sabotaging a Deal in 24 Hours

On June 25, 2026, the member states of the European Union gave their final approval to the EU-United States trade agreement negotiated a year…

Analysis· No. 829

DECODING: China's Real Estate Crisis Fractures the Global Economy

On June 16, 2026, China released its economic data for May: retail sales fell 0.6% year-on-year — the first decline since December 2022, when…

Analysis· No. 824

ANALYSIS: Trump, the Supreme Court and the Digital Tax — 100% Tariffs, But Under What Authority?

On February 20, 2026, the United States Supreme Court handed down a ruling that changed the rules of global trade. In a landmark decision,…

Column· No. 822

COLUMN: Iran-USA in Lucerne — Four Working Groups to Defuse a Century of Mutual Distrust

There is something irreducibly banal — and extraordinary — about the image of American and Iranian technicians sitting around a table in Switzerland to…

Analysis· No. 819

DECODING: Xi Jinping Weaves His Web — China's Diplomatic Encirclement of the West via Middle Powers

Since the start of 2026, Xi Jinping has received more than a dozen heads of state and government in Beijing. Presidents, prime ministers, leaders…

Analysis· No. 818

ANALYSIS: Italy and Spain, two European democracies testing their own limits

While Europe watches with justified vigilance the threats from abroad — Putin's Russia, Xi's China, the instability on its southern flank — two of…

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