All sides aiming for a long war of attrition in Ukraine
After more than 26 months of devastating combat, earlier expectations of a decisive Russian victory have given way to the reality of a grinding war of attrition in Ukraine.
2024 US elections asian news
Trump win potential puts Asia on a tariff-ied edge
Rising anticipation of a “red wave” sweeping Donald Trump and his Republicans to electoral victory on November 5 suddenly has Asia contemplating a plethora of “what-if?” scenarios.
The Nippon Steel deal: taking another look
“Countries have no friends – just interests,” or so goes the paraphrased version of Lord Palmerston’s statement. That was so cynical – so 19th Century British Empire. But 170 years later, try buying another nation’s steel company and you might think Lord Palmerston was right.
Oil economics could sway the US election
Oil continues to influence global economics and politics like no other finite natural resource. In the 2024 US presidential election, the strategic commodity will be an important domestic issue.
Calls for withdrawal after Biden’s humiliating defeat
The double victory that I had hoped for on Thursday — Biden over Trump in the CNN debate and the US soccer team over Panama in Copa America — never happened, as both Biden and the soccer team went down in humiliating defeats.