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Introduction The US is on the move and the geopolitical scenario has moved quickly away from the certainties of the last ten to fifteen years. Oil could come down to a price well below US$50-per-barrel, with prices for other petrochemical products falling in concert. That would spark an economic upswing in the USA, lowering prices […]

  Across the Asian continent, the past two decades have witnessed a profound shift in how states view and manage their mineral endowments. What was once largely framed as a technical issue of extraction and export has evolved into a core strategic concern tied to national security and geopolitical leverage. This shift – commonly termed […]

  Over the past 25 years, the relationship between China and Latin America has undergone a dramatic shift. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, in 2000, China accounted for less than 2 percent of Latin America’s exports. Over the next eight years, trade grew at an annual rate of 31 percent. By 2021, bilateral […]

A self-declared democratic socialist as mayor of Big Apple*.   We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about. Zohran Mamdani I It is rather unfortunate but hardly disputable that Socialism, despite its theoretical blunders, its catastrophic record, and all […]

  There is a sobering truth about artificial intelligence: It is not yet profitable. Money is pouring into AI, and funds flow through it – for the time being. But when one examines AI companies’ profits, clear data is hard to find. The numbers are interesting: Private AI investments in the United States hit $109.1 billion in […]