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Asia-Pacific’s new bargain: trade is shifting, not shrinking
The region is not watching globalization unwind so much as watching it reroute. New trade patterns show Asia-Pacific economies pulling closer together even as U.S.-China commerce is reshaped by tariff
The New Social Media Cold War: Why X, Bluesky, Threads and TikTok Are Fighting for the Creator Class
The post-Twitter era has fractured into a contest between reach, control and survival. X still matters, Threads is scaling fast, Bluesky is building a principled alternative, and TikTok remains the mo
The New Bargain: Why AI Is Not Replacing Jobs—It Is Replacing Workers’ Power
The loudest debate about artificial intelligence misses the deeper transformation. AI is not simply automating tasks; it is reorganizing the labor market into a system of tighter surveillance, weaker
Streaming’s June Reckoning: Big Returns, Bigger Bets, and the New Economics of TV
June 2026 is arriving with a familiar streaming paradox: a crowded slate of prestige returns, franchise spinoffs and literary adaptations, but little certainty that abundance will translate into atten
The Great Rewiring of Gaming: How Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo Are Redrawing the Business of Play
Gaming’s biggest companies are no longer fighting over a single living room box. Microsoft is turning Xbox into a broader platform and subscription business, Sony is defending the premium-console mode
America’s New Culture War Is Happening in the Feed
The old battle lines of the American culture war have not disappeared; they have migrated into the scrollable, algorithmic spaces where identity is performed and punished in public. On campuses, in ch
Africa’s economy is being pulled between oil, debt, and the search for leverage
Some governments are betting on energy exports to fund growth, while the broader continent still faces the structural problem of thin fiscal space and fragile investment. Algeria’s latest oil deal sho
The world is splitting into rival poles, and Europe is losing its old comfort zone
Geopolitical assumptions that shaped Europe for decades are eroding fast. By 2026, the EU faces a more fragmented world where power is distributed across several competing blocs and none of them is bu
A €5.85 billion signal: Brussels keeps the recovery machine running
The European Commission has continued to push recovery funding into the real economy, with Germany and Slovakia receiving fresh disbursements under the Recovery and Resilience Facility. The money is a
Europe’s new industrial doctrine: resilience becomes the EU’s default setting
Brussels is no longer treating industrial policy as a technical add-on to the single market. It is becoming the core language of European survival in a world shaped by protectionism, supply-chain shoc
The Machine That Watches You Back
AI is often sold as a productivity revolution, but its deeper significance may be political rather than economic: a system that turns human behavior into a raw material for prediction, management, and
China and Japan Keep Talking, But the Freeze Has Not Thawed
A brief exchange at an APEC dinner shows that even strained powers still need a channel, but it does not signal a breakthrough. The broader trade relationship remains trapped between strategic distrus
