For those who follow Rosneft and its operations around the world, Essar is a familiar name. Rosneft purchased Essar Oil (rebranded as Naraya Oil) and has supplied a good deal of the crude used by Indi...

The Essar Group's commitment to build a new steel plant in Iowa and to source it from Mesabi Metallics mines in Minnesota is a test of whether the U.S. government's geoeconomic tools--the $10 billion ...

Alaska LNG project a way to connect #geoeconomic imperatives (provide new security energy route to South Korea reinforcing security and trade ties with the U.S., provide alternatives to increasingly u...

Yet politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well as much of the national security establishment, do not understand how digital currencies work and are

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In 2008, the US stock market was worth $3 trillion more than the combined European stock market; in 2023, the gap was $34 trillion. This column argues that the valuation gap is not driven by differenc...

While Seoul has traditionally played things safe on the issue, that discretion is becoming harder to sustain.

President Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington, greeting him in person at Joint Base

Not shown are the land routes that are taking on more, as well as the seasonal Arctic routes, especially with the #Vostok project now begin to ship to Asian customers ...

Show the importance and durability of the various trade #roundabout schemes to get around tariffs, sanctions and other barriers ...

So, two trends to consider ... 1) Progress on a U.S.-China trade deal that would lower tariffs on a wide variety of consumer goods. Important for the Trump administration due to growing Republican co...

It is striking, reading Vladimir Norov's summary of the U.S.-China summit, how much both sides seem to echo what the #Mayflower_Group (formally, the dialogue for a “Sustainable Bipartisan U.S. Strateg...

By Patricia Zengerle and Mike Stone WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has made legally binding commitments to spend almost all of the $400 million Congress approved for military...

James Davis, for this week's Asia Times Global Risk-Reward Monitor, on the hardening attitudes in the Kremlin and the growing realization that Trump "can't deliver." "Trump has shown little willingn...

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99.German state polls yield historic defeat,

Russia and Ukraine’s war of endurance, Latvia’s upcoming elections, and more

The Ukrainian president remains skeptical Russia will takes steps to de-escalate.

Explore the impact of AI on global security and warfare in this new age of technological threats and challenges.

Nikolas Gvosdev, a national security fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and professor at the U.S. Naval War College, and speaking on his own behalf, joins Bill Bartholomew to examine how ...

I always enjoy taking part in Leadership Rhode Island's Defense Day, and to be able to help connect global trends in international security with developments at our #doorstep here in Rhode Island. It ...

As we monitor Duma election results in Russia it does seem that the dual recruitment strategy James Davis has been tracking will produce some results: a cadre of loyalist veterans especially in United...

Keep an eye on what happens Sunday in Germany--according to Diego Faßnacht, CFA 🇵🇦 writing in Asia Times. Depending on how elections go in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, embattled chancell...

So some highlights of the Waverly Heights talk: —characterized the time we are living in as the birthpangs of the #technostrategic era; —our national security system remains geared to reacting to cr...

Not seeing any sort of signing statement or other remarks from President Trump after signing the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 into law indicating any thoughts on what he i...

Central Asia is shifting from separate projects to an integrated Eurasian network linking China, Central Asia, the Caspian, the Caucasus, Europe and South Asia The EDB estimates 114 projects in Centr...

FOUR SIMULTANEOUSLY DISRUPTED SUPPLY ROUTES ARE TURNING EUROPE’S ENERGY CRISIS INTO AN INFLATIONARY ONE On September 18, Saudi Arabia warned European refineries not to expect oil shipments in October...

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The war has caused a commodities crisis running several markets deep.

Also suggests to me that even if the U.S. sanctions legislation passes the President will be less inclined to use because the Middle East now more than ever cannot provided alternatives to supply from...

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Today, Russia announced the ban of sulphuric acid exports. Russia also banned the export of elemental sulphur late last year to protect its agricultural industry, as its domestic production has been...

JPMorgan hat gerade einen furchterregenden Chart zu den Ölbeständen der Welt veröffentlicht. Die Lagerbestände befinden sich im freien Fall. Und wenn diese Linie 6,8 — erreicht, fällt die Weltwirtscha...

The world's luck may be running out ... enough interdiction of physical commodities, and the digital world cannot substitute (or even function). --After four years where both Ukraine and Russia restr...

FP’s editor in chief on the mood in Ukraine—and what it means for the future of war.

I shared some thoughts with Inter-American Dialogue's Energy Advisor about the USG's recent equity stake in Venezuela's energy sector - and the other parallel investments. My comments focus on the rol...

Global System Rupture is the definition of a tipping point for the global system when its absorption capacity can’t cope with the multiplicative cascade emerging from the various compound shocks to th...

For several weeks, James Davis has been reporting in Asia Times about growing calls within the Kremlin to take steps to remove the sense of immunity many high-level Western visitors to Ukraine feel th...