What changes when China’s leader finally states a reserve currency ambition explicitly? Xi Jinping has now done so, calling for the renminbi to attain global reserve currency status, not in a speech to foreign investors or at an international summit, but in Qiushi, the Chinese Communist Party’s flagship ideological journal. The language, drawn from a speech Xi

Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a meeting in Beijing with German Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz, said that peace negotiations on Ukraine should ensure equal participation of all parties – apparently referring to the need for the European Union to be involved in the peace process. This was reported in a joint communiqué on the outcome

US President Donald Trump and his allies have long expressed their support for the right and far right of the European political spectrum. This was made official in the United States National Security Strategy (NSS) published in December 2025. The document suggests that there is a real risk of Europe facing “civilizational erasure” because of