Sholto Byrnes
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A thaw is coming to global shipping â but itâs not in Hormuz or Bab Al Mandeb | The National (opens the original)
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With daily vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz still down to a trickle, and now the Red Sea and the Suez Canal routes vulnerable to the Houthisâ threat on the Bab Al Mandeb strait, there is greater interest than ever in alternative shipping routes. One that has been talked about for years, although with no great expectation that it would amount to much any time soon, is the Northern Sea Route â or NSR â through the Arctic. The key advantage of this route is that when the seas are
Brics and the SCO offer a different vision of global power | The National (opens the original)
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By now there is an almost overwhelming consensus that the old international order as we knew it has failed, or is fading away. Inasmuch as America trumpeted that it should be ârules-basedâ, while constantly carving out exceptions for itself and its allies, that veneer has been fully stripped away. That process became fully recognisable when former US president Joe Biden stood by while Israel bombed Gaza into rubble, which showed, as Jordanâs King Abdullah observed: âPalestinian lives mat
Donald Trump may have ended America's 'pivot to Asia', but with a twist | The National (opens the original)
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In the past few days, the US has ordered its last aircraft carrier out of Asia and sent it to shore up its fleet in the Middle East, and President Donald Trump told his defence department to âsubstantially reduceâ military exercises this week with South Korea. Despite the latter being a US treaty ally and home to about 29,000 American troops, Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social: âThese exercises are not only costly, but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a country that,
America's global leadership is faltering â China should not let this moment pass it by | The National (opens the original)
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It was a line in a recent news report that jumped out at me. In Australia, âthe levels of trust in either the US or China to âact responsiblyâ in the world are now almost evenly matchedâ. The figures came from an annual poll conducted by the Lowy Institute in Sydney. This yearâs survey also found that 61 per cent of Australians see China more as an economic partner than a security threat â an 11-point increase on last year. In one sense this seems remarkable. It was only a few years
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