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  • Canada at Davos 2026 analysis brief.

    🧵1/12: Canada’s Bold Pivot at Davos 2026: From Rules-Based Reliance to Economic Resilience in a Fractured World As the World Economic Forum unfolds amid escalating great-power tensions, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address marked a watershed for Canada. No longer banking on a predictable global order, Ottawa is charting a pragmatic path to safeguard prosperity. Let’s…

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  • US Quest For Rare Earth Minerals

    The U.S. recently headed a meeting with its close allies to develop an initiative that would seek to reduce global reliance on rare earth minerals from China. However, analysts have warned that the success of such an initiative is dependent on the countries’ long-term investment and commitment. It will also be a test of the…

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  • How EU-Russia Trade Collapsed Under the Weight of Geopolitics

    Economic Interdependence For more than two decades, trade between the European Union and Russia could be presented as a textbook example of economic interdependence. The European Union was the largest importer of Russia’s energy exports and natural resources such as oil and gas, growing dependent on these essential imports to power European industry and deliver…

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  • China ready to root out corruption

    The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, has signalled a further clampdown on corruption. He recently made a statement at a Party meeting associated with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, stating that there should be full and rigorous Party self-governance with higher standards and more concrete measures. The concept of…

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  • Kazakhstan Seeks Nuclear Energy Expansion

    Kazakhstan has stated its general desire to grow and develop its nuclear power capacity, and the United States has already begun to lend its assistance. Through a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Astana, the U.S. government has agreed to help train Kazakh specialists in the operation of small modular nuclear reactors. This will…

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  • China’s Four Global Initiatives.

    China has recently become one of the primary forces for global leadership against a backdrop of uncertainty. Although the global order has become more interconnected than ever before, the turbulent geopolitical landscape does not have a functioning framework to guide world society on a clear path to properly interact and navigate with each other. Developments…

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  • Future of China-US relations lies with People

    Recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a reply to a letter that was drafted by a U.S. youth education exchange delegation made up of teachers and students. President Xi replied to the letter with the following message: that he was pleased to hear the delegation had a pleasant and rewarding journey in China, and that…

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  • Donju: North Korea’s NEPMen

    North Korea is quite possibly one of, if not the last, traditional socialist planned economies that exist on earth. However, with all the state governance and control over the country’s political economy, an entrepreneur class has emerged called the “donju.” In some respects, they are akin to the Soviet Nepmen during the New Economic Policy…

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  • China: The Rise of the Electrostate

    In an era of accelerating energy transitions and rising geopolitical rivalries, such as those between China and the USA, a new paradigm is emerging in the global political economy which can be called the electrostate. In contrast to the traditional concept of a petrostate, which is typically reliant on fossil fuel exports, an electrostate is…

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