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Essay· No. 846

ESSAY: Kim Jong Un and the bomb at sea — what North Korea's nuclear navy changes for Asia

On June 23, 2026, at the port of Nampo on the west coast of North Korea, Kim Jong Un personally presided over the official…

Analysis· No. 845

ANALYSIS: The EU Asylum Pact — fortress Europe or a finally manageable system?

On June 12, 2026, the European Union's Asylum and Migration Pact — adopted in May 2024 after years of acrimonious negotiations — entered into…

Reportage· No. 843

REPORT: China seizes its AI engineers — talent as a militarized state asset

On May 26, 2026, Bloomberg revealed what many observers had anticipated but Beijing had not officially confirmed: China was imposing travel restrictions on its…

Essay· No. 840

ESSAY: The Iran-USA 14-point deal — what the text says, omits, and truly threatens

On June 20, 2026, after weeks of secret negotiations conducted under American and Israeli military pressure on Iranian nuclear sites, the Trump and Pezeshkian…

Analysis· No. 839

DECODING: Trump sacrifices American housing on the altar of the SAVE Act and the filibuster

On Wednesday, June 24, 2026, Donald Trump was supposed to sign on Capitol Hill the most significant housing legislation in decades. The 21st Century…

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…

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