Thu, 15 Oct 2026
Crisis Group expert Thomas Kean examines why the Myanmar military’s faltering counteroffensive and escalating air attacks have further dimmed prospects for a ceasefire in Rakhine State.
The Northern Sea Route matters less for its cargo than for what it does for Russia and China. The post China-Russia Cooperation in the Arctic: The Northern Sea Route appeared first on Geopolitical Monitor .
Europe is facing rising populism internally as well as external pressures from Russia, China, Turkey, and the United States.
Europeans should defend their rules on trade, investment and infrastructure—and, in so doing, change the logic that encourages Chinese retaliation
We Discuss: Mentioned on the Episode: “Executive Order 13848: Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” The White House “Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company That Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests,” U.S. Department of Justice
Myanmar’s Kachin State holds the heavy rare earths India wants, and a wartime road runs past them. Getting them out is another matter. The post Myanmar’s Rare Earths and the Geopolitics of the Stilwell Road appeared first on Geopolitical Monitor .
China’s navy has doubled its modern surface fleet against Japan’s since 2015. The balance at sea, 14 years after the PLA Navy's first carrier was launched. The post PLA Navy vs. Japan’s MSDF: How the Balance Shifted Since 2012 appeared first on Geopolitical Monitor .
How has China imported less oil amid major supply shocks and war in Iran, and what does it mean?
On 23 September, SIPRI’s Dual–Use and Arms Trade Control Programme delivered a workshop in Canberra on ‘Developments in China’s Export Control Framework: Implications for Australia and Multilateral Cooperation’.
Introduction In the spring of 2025, eleven EU health ministers described Europe’s dependence on Chinese medicines as the weak point in Europe’s defense. The warning was accurate but largely ignored. For twenty of fifty-six active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that German regulators classify as essential to supply, enough of the world’s production sits in China that […]
U.S.-ROK cooperation on shipbuilding should be structured so that it strengthens U.S. maritime industrial capacity, makes commercial sense for Korean shipbuilders, and survives the political and regulatory constraints on both sides.
The European Commissioner for Trade is headed to China. But after President Xi’s bridge-building visit to Washington, can a more isolated EU overcome Beijing’s stranglehold on critical raw materials? Who will blink first?
The summit may be remembered as a fatal blunder, when Washington, Beijing, and the AI industry collectively chose ceremony over action.
Cargo traffic through Russia’s Northern Sea Route has increased because of the disruption caused by the conflict in the Middle East, the Ukraine war, and U.S.-China tensions.
As European leaders hobnob with their counterparts at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, they must think carefully about how to navigate a fast-changing multilateral landscape. The old world belonged to rule-makers and institution-builders, but the current one favours those who can improvise
