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The United States says it controls the strait; Iran demonstrates that it can still prevent the world from using it normally “A power can control the sea with aircraft carriers. Real power begins when ships are still afraid to sail…

The Sixth Muscle of Power “Empires have spent centuries perfecting five great muscles of power. Perhaps the twenty-first century will require them to develop a sixth: ‘wisdom,’ so as not to destroy what they wish to govern.” “Prudence is one…

Farce (from Lat. sagina, fattening; fig. a short, comical play): A dramatic work of a grotesque, ridiculous, and exaggerated nature that seeks easy laughter through the caricature of its characters. A noisy staging, characterized by feigned solemnity but lacking substance,…

China has just completed the largest superconducting magnet ever built for a fusion reactor and is preparing a machine that will attempt to generate electricity by 2030. But it has not ignited a star, it does not yet have an…

The memory chipmaker CXMT soared 466% in its Shanghai Stock Exchange debut and became, in a single session, the most valuable company listed in mainland China. The scene repeats a familiar pattern: every time the United States raises a technological…

There is a self-imposed blindness, almost endearing in its pathos, with which Western bureaucracies insist on viewing the development of the rest of the planet. While in our latitudes ministries of education and arm-chair pedagogical committees waste rivers of ink…

The Great Lions of Power and the Peoples Condemned to Watch the Banquet from the Door “There are peoples who were not expelled from paradise for sinning, but for being born too far from the table where others had already…

Interpretive Essay and Critical Reading of a Foundational Document The speech delivered by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference goes far beyond the technological debate. His proposal places artificial intelligence at the…

By Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh has emerged at the center of growing geopolitical competition in the Bay of Bengal region. Intense diplomatic analysis is now underway across South Asia and the Indo-Pacific regarding the feasibility of a Chinese-proposed…

China, United States, India, Russia, UE, ASEAN, chips, energy, and routes on the true chessboard of power “There are maps that do not need to shout. It is enough to look at them carefully to understand where history is moving.”…