American Power and India: Washington Hits a Limit
India’s Russian oil purchases and expanding rupee-rouble settlement system reveal a limit of American economic coercion without signalling the end of dollar power.
Geopolitics
Russia Pakistan Freight Corridor: Geography Tests History
In June 2023, 45,000 tonnes of Russian crude reached Karachi under Pakistan’s first government-to-government oil deal with Moscow. Pakistan paid…
Pakistan’s Somalia Bet: Can Military Power Buy Influence?
Somalia may test whether Pakistan can turn security capacity into geopolitical reach without Gulf-scale capital. On August 4, Pakistan signed…
The US Has Reset Its Africa Strategy. China Is Not the Only Problem.
Washington has moved toward commercial diplomacy and critical minerals. The harder test is whether its trade policy can support the…