China’s 2025 military parade showcased its progress in modernization and self-sufficiency. Exploring implications for partnerships, arms markets, and regional security, and beyond.
The EU is ramping up efforts to tax Big Tech through Digital Services Taxes (DST) and new digital competition laws like the DMA. Once a fiscal tool, the DST is now emerging as a geopolitical instrument amid US-EU trade tensions. With Apple and Meta facing fines and the European Court backing the EU’s regulatory authority, digital policy is becoming a new front in global power politics.
Higher education has long been a space for intellectual exchange, innovation, and the advancement of society. Ideally, universities should remain …
“it’s not just impacting people and people’s health. It’s not just impacting my career. It’s impacting, you know, it’s impacting all the future research that’s going to happen that’s impacting the opportunity for individuals. It’s impacting the economy globally, and it’s also impacting our ability to respond to diseases as we go.”
The European Union is facing an unprecedented crisis period characterised by internal as well as external challenges.
The internal cohesion of the EU is undermined by populist forces that push for a nationalist agenda and wish to either weaken the EU or to employ it as a tool to achieve their own national goals. The presence of these polarising political forces within the EU institutions represent a concrete obstacle to effective decision-making.
“At the time of writing, 2025 has seen “Make America Great Again” be taken to a whole new level, but what does that mean for America’s global influence and power?”
Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, uncertainty has gripped global trade once again. With sweeping tariffs on steel, aluminum, and European imports, Trump’s “America First” agenda has reignited transatlantic tensions.
While the EU faces rising costs, disrupted supply chains, and targeted tariffs across sectors, Brussels is responding with a mix of strategic calm, legal countermeasures, and trade diversification.
Will Europe emerge as the global champion of free trade or be forced into its own protectionist pivot?
What if a Supreme Court ruling fell and no one obeyed? The quiet assumption that judicial decisions must be followed, once the bedrock of American constitutional order, is cracking under the weight of political defiance. When compliance becomes a choice rather than a duty, the Court’s authority fades into irrelevance.
TSMC’s U.S. expansion sparks debate over Taiwan’s strategic leverage. Is its semiconductor dominance a safeguard—or a bargaining chip in U.S. foreign policy?
This analysis explores TSMC’s strategic position in the global semiconductor value chain. It also examines the broader implications for semiconductor industry and security.
