China’s softened oil demand has relieved global supply pressures driven by Hormuz’s energy shock, Surges in AI exports mask the industrial decline across East Asia’s advanced economies, The threat of an empowered Iran accelerates the Gulf’s defence buildout, and Alarm bells are sounding in Europe over Chinese industrial expansion into Morocco.

ASEAN manufacturers are reeling from the Iran War’s second order effects, AI is threatening India’s massive IT sector and compounding pre-existing job creation challenges while China’s RMB internationalisation efforts accelerate amidst relief to sanctioned oil producers.

Australia’s data centre boom is seeking to outpace the Commonwealth regulatory catch-up, The Pentagon’s ‘Drone Dominance’ programme aims to rival China’s low-cost drone industry, Indonesia’s rapid aluminium growth raises fears of another metal price glut and The US continues to bet big on fledgling rare earth miners.