by Asia Pacific Task Force | Dec 15, 2025 | Commentary, Energy Security
Key Takeaways The $1 trillion surplus signals structural weakness, not strength. It reflects suppressed domestic demand, excess capacity, and policy distortions rather than superior competitiveness or healthy growth. China’s export boom is driven by one-sided...
by Transatlantic Task Force | Dec 11, 2025 | Commentary, Defence & Security
The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) marks a sharp shift in American policy towards Europe and the transatlantic alliance. It recasts NATO and European security in transactional terms, prioritizes U.S. sovereignty and economic interests, and treats Europe as...
by BEYOND THE HORIZON | Dec 7, 2025 | Commentary, Defence & Security
Key Takeaways The Indo-Pacific is elevated as the decisive theater of 21st-century U.S. strategy, framed in explicitly realist, geo-economic terms rather than ideological ones. Economic security is treated as national security, with the NSS prioritizing de-risking...
by Timucin Ibu | Dec 3, 2025 | Commentary, Defence & Security
Key Takeaways SAFE has become the nucleus of Europe’s defence-industrial integration. What began as a financing tool is now the organizing framework around which procurement, production, standards, and long-term capability planning are being aligned. Canada’s...
by Asia Pacific Task Force | Nov 30, 2025 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Key Takeaways A Shift to “Strategic Overdrive”: The East Asian security landscape has moved beyond “managed competition” into a volatile four-way dynamic involving China, the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan. This new phase is characterized by the...
by Transatlantic Task Force | Nov 25, 2025 | Commentary, Cyber Security, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Key Takeaways Economic Warfare via “China Shock 2.0”: Beijing is attempting to export its way out of domestic stagnation. By prioritizing state-directed manufacturing over consumption, China has generated a nearly $1 trillion trade surplus. This flood of...
