When Asia’s central banks turn bond vigilante on Trump
With US national debt over $40 trillion and Treasury yields at 5.3%, Asian creditors are increasingly discontent with America’s bad behavior
Plainly, Trump doesn’t really care about the midterms
Trump must think he will be able to carry on in his final two years, acting pretty much in the same way as now, without control of the House
How Yemen’s renewed civil war could set the whole region ablaze
Houthi Bab el-Mandeb threat, Saudi pipeline attacks and Turkey-Pakistan troop pledge raise the risk that Yemen’s war goes regional
US-Australia hypersonic push no silver bullet against China
Hypersonic test flight boosts standoff strike but its deterrent value depends on bases and kill chains surviving a Chinese first attack
How China deploys wartime history against Japan
Beijing is again playing up Japan’s WWII atrocities, strategically timed to coincide with a new era of Tokyo-Washington mistrust
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