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Debt is determining the scope of Western defence

Politics Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - July 22, 2026.

The debt of developed countries is projected to reach a record 75.8 trillion dollars by the end of 2026. This year alone, it will increase...

Conflicts around the world could push millions more people into hunger

Politics TA | AP Insight - July 21, 2026.

Conflicts and disruptions to global energy markets could push millions more people into hunger by driving up fuel, fertilizer and food costs, the head of...

Will the US be able to fend off the Chinese challenge to its primacy as it did against the Soviet Union?

Politics Joschka Fischer - July 20, 2026.

The era in which global order rested on a US monopoly over military and economic power and values has finally come to an end, taking...

Washington is preparing Seoul for a greater role in the Pacific

Politics The Editorial Board - July 20, 2026.

On 17 July, North Korea strongly denounced the RIMPAC exercise in Hawaii as a US warfare exercise and announced a “chain of proportional countermeasures”. In a...

Is the US easing pressure on Hong Kong?

Politics TA | AP Insight - July 18, 2026.

The United States said Saturday it did not renew a national emergency declaration over Hong Kong, leading to the lifting of partial sanctions, but it...

Japan against national flag vandals – protecting tradition or threatening free speech?

Politics TA | AP Insight - July 17, 2026.

Japan on Friday enacted a controversial new law prohibiting desecration of its national flag, a key right-wing agenda pushed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Opponents say...

Will the operation to dismantle the International Criminal Court succeed?

Politics Josep Borrell - July 17, 2026.

Some institutional failures unfold not through scandal but procedure, with acts of sabotage dressed up in the language of good-faith inquiry and accountability. By the...

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