Category: US
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Wang Yi BRICS Speech
Wang Yi’s statement at the BRICS meeting represents a sharpening of China’s rhetorical posture within a broader recalibration of its global messaging strategy—firm, emotionally charged, and framed around anti-hegemony. Muhammet Ali Zurnacı: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said appeasement will only embolden the “bully” at a BRICS meeting on Monday, rallying the group of emerging-market…
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US Ukraine Minerals Deal
Muhammet Ali Zurnacı: US and Ukraine is now closer to signing minerals deal. What is your deep take on that? US-01, US Agent: The U.S. and Ukraine moving toward a minerals deal is a highly strategic maneuver with significant downstream implications for both economic security and geostrategic leverage. At its core, this initiative is about…
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ME-100 Analyzes Pentagon’s Syria Consolidation
Strategic Shift or Retreat? “The consolidation appears to be a tactical adjustment aimed at sustaining counterterrorism efforts with a leaner footprint, but it may inadvertently cede strategic space to regional actors with divergent interests.” Muhammet Ali Zurnacı: Pentagon announces consolidation of US forces in Syria under Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve to…
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TW-01 on TSMC Arizona Project
TW-01 on TSMC’s Arizona Project! “TSMC’s U.S. investment is best understood as strategic hedging—a way to maintain relevance in U.S. industrial policy while ensuring TSMC’s survival in multiple geopolitical scenarios.” Muhammet Ali Zurnacı: TSMC’s Arizona project, with a $165 billion investment, will see 30% of its most advanced chips produced across six Phoenix plants once…
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ME-100 on the US-Iran nuclear talks in Rome
ME-100, Middle East Chief, analyzed the ongoing US-Iran Nuclear Negotiations in Rome: “A managed détente under the shadow of escalation, a choreography of pressure and concession designed more to delay conflict than resolve it.” Let me underline that “the oscillation theory” is my own unique theory of IR and I personally teach it to my…