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Trump’s Iran deal: Realpolitik triumphs — for now

Washington has a habit of dressing up its foreign policy in the language of moral purpose. Presidents invoke democracy, human rights, and the rules-based international order as if they were divine mandates rather than rhetorical conveniences. So there is something almost

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University research at China speed brings sea changes to science

I was just guessing at numbers and figures Pulling the puzzles apart Questions of science, science and progress Do not speak as loud as my heart – Coldplay Nine of the world’s current top,-ten-ranked research universities are in China, according to the recently released 2026

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Is China sleepwalking down Japan’s zombie economy path?

The photo above is not from China; it’s from Japan. In the 1970s, Daiei was Japan’s top retailer. But after Japan’s asset bubble burst around 1990, it became Japan’s most famous “zombie” company — staggering along unprofitably, kept afloat by a constant stream of

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Bank of Japan rate hike greeted with a market shrug

TOKYO – Only in Japan can a central bank on its fifth rate hike in two years still be accused of pulling its punches. Yet here is the Group of Seven’s most predictable monetary institution as 2026 unfolds. That context explains Tuesday’s market reaction. The BOJ’s 25

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Myanmar’s revolution just grew up

In every revolution, there is a moment when a movement stops being a protest and becomes a project. For the American colonies, that moment came not in 1776 but in 1787, when 13 quarrelsome states finally bound themselves to a common instrument of rule. Myanmar’s Spring

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