Hormuz disruption threatens China’s oil supply, but strategic reserves and floating stocks provide temporary buffers against crisis.
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Indonesia faces Rp500 trillion fiscal shock, inflation, and currency pressure as Middle East war drives oil prices higher.
Despite stability and a Kurdish deal, Syria lacks political roadmap, suffers economic crisis,and faces regional war threats,risking fragile transition progress.
The Iran war is shaking Egypt’s economy; Suez revenues have plummeted and gas supplies are halted.
Iran’s uprising is not another protest wave—it is a systemic crisis of economic collapse and regime failure.
Iran’s regime faces existential crises: economic collapse, regional losses, and the absence of a pivotal figure to manage transition.
In Iran, sovereignty is priced in dollars; U.S. pressure has created “governance by weather,” where daily life pivots on external signals.
The dollar’s dominance is under historic pressure: Fed easing, capital outflows, eroded safe-haven status, and global de-dollarization are converging.
Ten years of war have devastated Yemen’s economy; poverty is not a byproduct of conflict—it is policy.
Pakistan is pivoting toward the Middle East with defense deals, but is constrained by terrorism, economic fragility, and domestic ideological vulnerability.