Secretary of State Marco Rubio left New Delhi this week with a declaration and a deadline. The declaration: the United States and India are “on the verge” of a trade deal that would be among the most consequential bilateral agreements of the decade. The deadline: a US trade delegation is scheduled to land in India…

Oil markets do not like uncertainty. And right now, the Iran war peace deal is delivering nothing but. Brent crude climbed back above $98 per barrel on Tuesday briefly touching $100 in early trading as a whiplash sequence of contradictory developments left traders, data chiefs, and energy ministers struggling to price a conflict that has…

For years, Beijing has cultivated a carefully constructed image: China as the indispensable power, the responsible stakeholder, the nation whose Belt and Road Initiative spans continents, whose diplomats broker deals, and whose economy anchors the global order. President Xi Jinping has spoken of a “community of shared human destiny.” Chinese state media regularly positions Beijing…

For the first time in nearly three months, oil and liquefied natural gas tankers are moving again through the Strait of Hormuz cautiously, partially, and in some cases with their tracking transponders switched off. It is a fragile and tentative reopening, not a restoration. But in the context of what the world’s most critical energy…

London / New York / Vienna, May 23, 2026 — The fifth round of US-Iran peace negotiations concluded in Rome on Friday with the now-familiar formula: described as “constructive,” agreed to continue, and producing nothing that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz by a single nautical mile. Brent crude climbed 3 percent on May 22…

Just 48 hours after Donald Trump concluded his own summit in Beijing shaking hands over Boeing jets and tariff truces Vladimir Putin landed at the same airport, walked into the same Great Hall of the People, and reminded the world that Xi Jinping is not choosing sides. He is collecting leverage from all of them.…

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched down in Oslo on May 19, 2026 the first visit by an Indian prime minister to Norway in 43 years the optics alone told a story about how dramatically the world’s geopolitical map has been redrawn. The 3rd India-Nordic Summit brought together the leaders of five Nordic nations Norway,…

India is preparing to send oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since Iran closed the waterway on March 4, 2026 a high-stakes maritime gamble that reflects the severity of the energy crisis now gripping the world’s third-largest oil importer as the US-Iran war reshapes global supply chains from the Persian…

New Delhi / Gulf of Oman, May 19, 2026 — When India’s Shipping Ministry quietly reported that three Indian-flagged vessels carrying 76 Indian seafarers were stranded east of the Strait of Hormuz in the opening days of the iran crisis, it was a human detail buried inside a geopolitical catastrophe. The US-Iran War had begun…

London / New York / Dubai, May 19, 2026 — Brent crude surged $2.23 to $111.50 a barrel on May 18 — a single session after Iranian strikes lit a fire at the UAE’s Barakah nuclear complex. WTI climbed $2.54 to $108.00. Gold, already trading near $5,300 an ounce, held its safe-haven premium. Treasury yields…