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  • China Increased Imports Of Russian Fertiliser.

    Russia has boosted its exports of mineral fertiliser to China to nearly 5 million tonnes, totalling an estimated $1.6 billion, which is an increase of around 12%. China primarily increased its imports of potash fertiliser, which is the primary fertiliser imported from Russia. China imported over 14.1 million tonnes of fertiliser overall in 2025, which…

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  • Trade Between Georgia and Russia: A Pragmatic Partnership

    In recent years, trade relations between Georgia and Russia have shown steady growth, seemingly overcoming previous political frictions that stemmed from the 2008 conflict and the ongoing territorial issues of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Despite these earlier challenges, it appears that economic pragmatism has helped drive increased bilateral trade, with Russia emerging as one of…

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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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  • Russian Agriculture Sector Thrives

    For the last four years, Russia has been engaged in conflict with Ukraine and has faced international sanctions; however, its agricultural sector has seen rapid growth. Russia’s agricultural sector has become a major source of revenue as traditional oil revenues have fallen. The output of Russia’s agricultural sector has set new export records and has…

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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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  • Why Is Trump Interested In Greenland?

    The U.S. attempt to land-grab Greenland should not be very surprising, but it does raise questions about NATO unity. With Trump’s presidency, one can never know his next step; he seems to govern based on impulse and personal whim. He does as he pleases and is enabled this time around by a cadre of loyalists,…

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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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  • 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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