Author: Muhammet Ali Zurnacı
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China’s Green Surge: Renewable Superpower
“In its November 2025 special report on “China, energy and climate,” The Economist dubs China the “world’s renewable-energy superpower,” emphasizing its unprecedented pace in building and deploying clean energy infrastructure. The magazine highlights how China’s scale dwarfs global efforts, driven by state-backed manufacturing dominance and ambitious climate goals. This positions China not just as a…
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China’s Dual Power Play: Solar Surge, Coal Shadow
“In its November 2025 special report on “China, energy and climate,” The Economist dubs China the “world’s renewable-energy superpower,” emphasizing its unprecedented pace in building and deploying clean energy infrastructure. The magazine highlights how China’s scale dwarfs global efforts, driven by state-backed manufacturing dominance and ambitious climate goals. This positions China not just as a…
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Australia Rises as Indo-Pacific Cloud Powerhouse
Australia is indeed positioning itself as a global leader in cloud computing, driven by massive investments from hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. These commitments, totaling tens of billions of AUD, are expanding data center infrastructure across key cities—primarily Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra—to support low-latency services, data sovereignty, and the…
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Boko Haram Factions Clash
A fresh wave of intense infighting between Boko Haram’s mainstream faction, Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS), and its splinter group, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), has erupted in the Lake Chad Basin region of Borno State, Nigeria. The violence, which began on November 5, 2025, and continued through at least November 9,…
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Coerced Peace and the Architecture of Power Alignment
Structural Dependency, Transit Leverage, and Strategic Ordering from the Caspian to the Levant 1. Regional Events as a System, Not Episodes Middle Eastern geopolitics is often interpreted through isolated frames: Türkiye’s domestic security debates, Syria’s post-war settlement, Gulf-Egyptian rivalries, and the Israeli-Palestinian arena. Treated separately, these files distort the strategic architecture now emerging. The region…