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China’s Use of Renminbi and CIPS Challenges US Dollar but Falls Short

Council on Foreign Relations economists argue that SWIFT data showing a decline in renminbi payments is misleading. Renminbi-denominated transactions might be using China’s CIPS system, avoiding SWIFT altogether. Despite growing... Read full article

Masaaki Yoshimori - March 18, 2026

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Why a Fragmented Iran is Israel’s Greatest Security Threat
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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

by Pocket Dynamo, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

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The Story of World War II

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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

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Trump Makes Wars of Religion Great Again!

From Bush’s War on Terror to Trump’s strikes on Iran, US foreign policy has quietly transformed from ideological conflict into...

The Devil’s Stagecraft: When Biblical Prophecy Drives Foreign Policy

Shakespeare’s Macbeth offers a haunting mirror for today’s geopolitics. The witches’ art of “equivocation” — truths...

Is Europe a Possessed Continent?

Europe’s crisis runs deeper than economics or politics — it’s both an identity crisis and a...

The Iran War: How Does It End?

The US and Israel started the war in Iran without...

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The US Legal System Is Being Hacked

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What the Iran War Reveals About the Limits of Chinese Power

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The Dialectic: Narendra Modi’s Vegetarian Stalinism Has Ruined the Indian Economy

In this episode of The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle explain how India’s current leader has rolled back the 1991 economic reforms, restoring the extreme centralization of the socialist 1970s. Competitive populism and crony capitalism have led to a dumbbell economy where the babu...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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