The article critiques Trump’s inconsistent China trade policy, highlighting how rash tariffs backfired when China threatened rare earth exports. This chaotic approach lacks the strategic leverage needed to address China’s manufacturing overcapacity.
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The visit signals Oman’s intent to enhance defense autonomy through Turkish military technology while expanding trade, energy links, and tourism. This aligns with Turkey’s Gulf outreach and Oman’s strategy to reduce external dependencies and foster economic diversification.
Russia’s shadow fleet of hundreds of aging, uninsured tankers is a strategic and environmental hazard. Countering it requires modern “commerce raiding”—using open-source intelligence, lawfare, and sanctions to disrupt maritime trade, not direct military confrontation, to cripple the Kremlin’s war economy.