China Doesn’t Need Colonies. It Needs Contracts.
The debt-trap story about China is too simple. The harder question is what happens when a sovereign borrower needs a creditor more than the creditor needs the borrower.
Pakistan
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…