STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Beijing, having failed to change the Government of Eswatini, has begun operations to dominate the country’s commercial and political sectors. However, its decline in influence through Africa and the rest of the world is now becoming significant as its signature Belt and Road Initiative falls apart.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
The Africa-Middle East space and the implications of the BRICS expansion and rising instability: it’s all about perception, and perception counts.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
It was more consequential than Washington realized. But now the battle has been joined.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
China’s communists have now placed their fate, and the fate of China’s unwilling people, firmly in the hands of one man. The probable result is the deliberate implosion of mainland China’s economy, a key catalyst in an already unstable global strategic architecture.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
PERSONNEL
PERSONNEL
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
PERSONNEL
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Coups, as a form of “regime change”, are once again “permissible” in the greater Middle East and Africa as out-of-region powers lose traction. But then what?
PERSONNEL
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
To a large degree, South Africa’s future cohesion depends on the succession from King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulus