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South-South Trade Has Reached $6.8 Trillion — The Multilateral Order Is Not Fragmenting, It Is Being Replaced
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South-South Trade Has Reached $6.8 Trillion — The Multilateral Order Is Not Fragmenting, It Is Being Replaced

Trade between developing nations has surged to $6.8 trillion annually as US-China tension and multilateral institution dysfunction accelerate the formation of alternative economic architectures. The new order is not a void — it is a structure being built without the West.

Kwame AsanteMarch 18, 2026
Three Fracture Lines Beneath the Dollar's Reserve Status
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Three Fracture Lines Beneath the Dollar's Reserve Status

The dollar's reserve currency status faces no sudden collapse — but three specific structural shifts are creating fracture lines that will compound over 10-15 years into something significant.

Kwame Asante8 min
The South-South Trade Signal That Reshapes Geopolitics
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The South-South Trade Signal That Reshapes Geopolitics

Trade between emerging market economies, bypassing dollar infrastructure, has crossed the threshold from marginal to structural — driven by rational risk management, not ideology.

Kwame Asante7 min
The Delhi Paradox
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The Delhi Paradox

India is simultaneously the world's fastest-growing major economy and a country where the gains from growth are flowing upward with extraordinary speed. To be in Delhi is to understand both halves of that sentence at once.

Priya Sundaram12 min
Africa's Billion-Person Bet
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Africa's Billion-Person Bet

The continent's population is set to double by 2050. Whether that becomes a dividend or a catastrophe depends on decisions being made right now.

Kwame Asante13 min
India's Democratic Reckoning
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India's Democratic Reckoning

The world's largest democracy has been testing the limits of democratic governance for a decade. The results are a warning that the rest of the world has not adequately absorbed.

Sunita Krishnamurthy13 min
The Asia Pivot That Isn't
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The Asia Pivot That Isn't

India and China are the two most consequential rising powers of the century. The rivalry between them is reshaping Asia faster than Washington has noticed.

Priya Nair14 min
Europe's Long Reckoning
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Europe's Long Reckoning

The continent that invented liberal democracy is struggling to defend it. The far right is not the cause — it is the symptom of something deeper.

Sophie Laurent12 min