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Oil Surpasses $100 a Barrel: Asia Faces the Brunt of Economic Fallout from US-Israel War with Iran Oil prices surged past $100 a barrel on Monday, March 9, 2026, reaching …

Indonesia’s Carrier Ambitions Face Reality Check with Italian Acquisition Indonesia is poised to acquire its first aircraft carrier, the Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi, a move framed as a significant step toward …

The Three Faces of Environmental Harm: Local, Global and Natural World Impacts Environmental degradation presents a complex challenge with varying scales of impact. While often discussed as a single issue, …

Welcome to another roundup of interesting news and events from around the econosphere, from my traditional, 100% handcrafted human-written blog. 1. Fixing public spaces is actually pretty easy Table of …

China is urging its biggest banks to curb their exposure to US Treasuries, a calculated intervention in the plumbing of global finance that reveals something uncomfortable about where Asia believes …

Japan’s general election campaign ended on Saturday with major party leaders holding competing rallies across Tokyo. This has by any definition been a strange campaign. It was unexpected; it was …

China Dominates Critical Technologies, While AI Fuels Control and surveillance Table of Contents China Dominates Critical Technologies, While AI Fuels Control and surveillance Australia, Japan, and the Pacific: A Proposed …

How China Gained leverage Over Both Russia and the US Table of Contents How China Gained leverage Over Both Russia and the US China’s Rising Global Influence: A new Era …

Japan Poised to Overcome Self-Imposed Defense Restrictions, Signaling a Shift Towards a “Normal” Nation for decades, Japan has operated under notable self-imposed restrictions on defense exports, a legacy of its …

China’s New SCO Progress Bank: Why Now? China hosted the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Association (SCO) Summit from August 31 to September 1. The summit’s “Tianjin Declaration” emphasized upholding the “Shanghai …