China wants more trade, reserves, and payment infrastructure to move through the yuan. The yuan is gaining ground around China-linked trade, but the dollar still dominates reserves, payments, FX trading, and trade finance.
A catalog of Russia's major power brokers, how they fit into Putin's system, and how Ukraine's infrastructure strikes are pressuring the oil-linked side of Russia's elite economy.
A newest-first catalog of Ukraine's recent strikes on Russian refineries, oil depots, terminals, fuel logistics, and export infrastructure, updated with the July 6 Omsk, Yaroslavl, Vysotsk, Kaluga, Crimea, and Sea of Azov attacks.
Tanker rates have surged as Middle Eastern crude starts moving again through a still-disrupted Strait of Hormuz. Here is how tanker owners make money, what costs they face, and why rates can stay high even as oil prices fall.
Poland remains broadly anti-Russia and strategically supportive of Ukraine, but refugee fatigue, farmer anger, nationalist politics, and the Volhynia/UPA dispute are making that support more conditional.
Ukraine says it struck a Russian semiconductor plant in Voronezh that makes components for missile systems. Reports differ on whether the weapon was an AGM-188 Rusty Dagger, Storm Shadow, or another air-launched cruise missile.
China's housing crisis is still grinding lower in 2026. Prices are falling again, sales and investment remain weak, local governments are under pressure, and demographics make a fast rebound harder.