China’s Quiet Shock Absorber: How Beijing Is Confronting the Middle East Energy Crisis
As Middle East conflict disrupts global energy flows, China faces a key test of its long-term strategy. This analysis shows how Beijing is managing the shock—using strategic reserves, diversifying supply, and accelerating its energy transition—while revealing a system built over years to reduce vulnerability and reshape its role in the global energy order.
Commentary by The Center for Foreign Affairs & Defense Policy —
Greenland and Europe’s Strategic Imperative: Securing the Arctic in a New Era of Great-Power Competition
A New Dawn in Dhaka: BNP’s Triumph and the Shifting Balance of South Asia
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Venezuela
Americas
As events in Venezuela accelerate following recent U.S. actions, the implications for regional stability, energy markets, and hemispheric security are becoming clearer. CFADP is closely tracking developments and assessing what comes next.
U.S. Control of Venezuela’s Crude Reserves and the Rewiring of Global Oil and Trade
How U.S. authority or decisive leverage over Venezuela’s immense crude reserves may transform global oil markets and trade routes, influencing prices, OPEC+ power, American energy security, and strategic rivalry with China and Russia worldwide today.
By The Center for Foreign Affairs & Defense Policy
The Trump Corollary and Venezuela: Power, Preemption, and the Western Hemisphere
By The Center for Foreign Affairs & Defense Policy
