End Iran war before Trump-Xi summit or encourage a hedgehog world
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Plight of its only Middle Eastern ally intensifies conviction that nukes are the ultimate guarantor of regime survival
Asia in the crosshairs as oil barrels toward $120
Oil spiked to $119 per barrel temporarily on Monday, ringing alarm bells across the region’s import-hungry economies
Attack on Iran a defining moment for the global order
US-Israel strikes on Iran dare China-Russia to prove that multipolarity is an enforceable principle and not just a slogan
The anti-American axis myth
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US allies paying the price for Washington’s war
- ‘Epic tag team’ inflicts collateral damage on East Asia
- Europe pays for Washington’s Iran escalation
- Zelensky in increasingly open defiance of Trump’s agenda
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