Indonesia joined BRICS without publishing a roadmap. Without benchmarks, summit visibility risks substituting for the strategy that makes it pay.
Thailand, Brazil and Colombia chose the Gripen over US fighters. The reason is not price or stealth, but who keeps a veto over the software.
A US tariff truce and a narrow Press Note 3 opening toward Chinese capital are quietly reshaping how money moves in and out of India.
The Hormuz crisis sent European negotiators back to Baku. What they found was a partner of real strategic value and marginal volume: Azerbaijan still supplies under 4 percent of the EU's gas.
India now builds 65% of its own military hardware, and is pressing Moscow for technology transfer rather than finished weapons. The leverage has shifted.
BRICS+ economies by share of world GDP at purchasing-power parity, 2025. China alone accounts for half the bloc's combined output. Saudi Arabia was invited but has not formalised accession. Source: ...
ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...
Kaga now flies F-35Bs and Izumo is next. Why Japan’s carrier turn is less about the name on the hull than about flexibility, survivability, and the US alliance.
The significance of Iran’s BRICS bank bid is not in what it provides Tehran economically, but what it signals for the future of Iranian politics.
Houthis seize Mocha and Perim, tightening the Bab al-Mandab as Saudi oil reroutes; Canada copies Ukraine's drone playbook; ...
The resilience of Iran’s economy is not an anomaly of internal fortitude, but a direct reflection of Beijing’s willingness to act as its ultimate economic guarantor.
The significance of Iran’s BRICS bank bid is not in what it provides Tehran economically, but what it signals for the future of Iranian politics.