Such has been the volatility of events in the Gulf, commentators have had very little of substance to offer beyond the macro comments that T...

Some pretty dire scenarios are easily envisaged, but it's anyone's guess now, on any geopolitical question you care to speculate on....

Trump is right that DeepSeek is a wakeup call.  For a very long time many on the capitalist side of the argument (including myself) have tak...

Here's a seriously good offering by a heavyweight US historian of the geopolitics of the modern age.  We all have our amateur views on ...

Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall) is a well known, oft-quoted book on geopolitics.  It's really an A-level text - first-year univer...

It may seem perverse to wonder whether the USA is withdrawing into an isolationist shell only a couple of days after it has orchestrated a r...

Here's a headline to wake up to on a dull Monday morning:  US would defend Taiwan if attacked by China, says Biden.    President says U...

 ... and it's Finland, 1939-1940. Russia hasn't had stellar success of late, even in Georgia and Chechnya, both a damn' sight ea...

For all their clever CCP-directed, "with-Chinese-characteristics" tweaks to classic western capitalism, somehow they couldn't ...

 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-reports-largest-incursion-yet-by-chinese-air-force-2021-06-15/ Made a prediction last wee...

 I am back, after sometime away in a country that makes the UK feel very cheap indeed.  Watching the Afghan disaster from afar, as we all di...