# Why stroke the Panda in San Fran? # Risks around the 2024 electoral contests: Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, the US  # Spheres of control vs Zones of influence - examples

# Hamas’s intended consequences and Israel’s mistakes # the arithmetic of victimhood # Iran’s sphere of influence # Mr Xi going to San Francisco?

# A myopic vision for Palestine # Israel’s misguided choices

# Dangerous verbal violence against Jews # Biden’s strategic vision laid out # China’s history of engagement with the Global South # How Beijing defines its global strategy?

# The battle of collective traumas # How populists make us insecure # How Russia benefits from the crisis # The Middle East in China’s Global South strategy

# Shock in Israel # Washington’s shambolic moment # Ukraine’s tough homework # Space X and its star wars over the US, Ukraine and Taiwan

# The tragedy of Armenia’s loneliness # Is Iran stepping back? # No rare earths from Kachin # Burma and Russia – brothers in arms?

# the forces that shape post-globalization # relative size #

# Putin’s grain game ricochets around Europe # EU cracks

# BRICS become an anti-Western bloc # Argentina with