China: The World’s Favorite Villain, Banker, and Life Coach BEIJING—When historians finally tally the scorecard of the 21st century, they may conclude that the planet spent four decades simultaneously fearing, financing, and imitating the same country—often in the same news cycle. Welcome to the China Show, the longest-running geopolitical dramedy of our time, now streaming…
Bishkek – population roughly the same as Tucson, elevation slightly higher than Denver, and geopolitical relevance that keeps Washington, Beijing, and Moscow awake in shifts. To the casual atlas-flipper it’s just a vowel-heavy smudge between steppe and Tian Shan, yet this modest capital has become the world’s most polite knife-fight: all blades politely concealed beneath…
The World’s Smallest Great Power: Montenegro as a Geopolitical Punchline By Our Correspondent, still hung-over from a rakija-soaked night in Kotor The Adriatic has always been Europe’s liquid catwalk: Venice glides by in designer decay, Croatia flaunts newly-acquired EU pins, and then—barely visible unless you squint—Montenegro struts in borrowed shoes two sizes too big. At…
