geoeconomics

THE BOTTOM LINE

Can Washington treat its allies like adversaries – and still keep them?

2026-07-27T03:41:18.000Z
Merchant states such as Singapore are adapting to fragmentation by offering businesses greater connectivity, predictability and optionality.
NEW GLOBAL ORDER

Why small, open economies must rethink ‘strategic incompleteness’

2026-07-20T23:00:00.000Z
An oil refinery in China, which at the end of 2025 had the largest strategic petroleum reserve with 1.4 billion barrels held back.
THE BOTTOM LINE

China has a powerful new oil price weapon

2026-06-16T23:00:00.000Z
The combination of their interests and capacity to pursue them means that middle powers desire, and could prove pivotal to the emergence of, a new world order.
NEW GLOBAL ORDER

After the American order: How mid-sized states could become middle powers

2026-05-25T10:30:00.000Z
Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The countries have upgraded their 2007 Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Treaty into a permanent framework.

China’s Tajikistan treaty shows Central Asia’s new investment geography

2026-05-24T23:00:00.000Z
Visitors in New Delhi. India has lately picked up the pace of liberalising trade, striking deals with the UK and New Zealand.
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Commonwealth’s economic momentum grows

2026-05-19T23:00:00.000Z
US President Donald Trump needs economic wins to bring back an electorate weary of global instability.

The art of the deal 2.0: why pragmatism is defining the new US-China trade order

2026-05-17T23:00:00.000Z
Donald Trump (left) and Xi Jinping at the Apec summit in Busan, South Korea, Oct 30, 2025. Trump's trip to China in May will be the first US presidential trip there since 2017.

US-China summit: Will Xi and Trump stabilise ties?

2026-05-10T23:00:00.000Z
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at a bilateral meeting at the Apec summit in Busan on Oct 30, 2025.

US-China summit: managing a rivalry, not resolving it

2026-05-07T23:00:00.000Z
The UAE today is not a pure petrostate. Thus, while high oil prices will boost the country's oil revenue, they also hurt the global economy that drives the rest of the Emirati portfolio.
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Why the United Arab Emirates walked away from Opec

2026-05-04T23:00:00.000Z