Tag: global order
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The Age of Compute Power: How AI, Semiconductor Geopolitics, and Chip Wars Are Reshaping Global Power
The twenty-first century is entering a new geopolitical era defined not only by military power, energy resources, or economic size, but by the capacity to compute intelligence at scale. Artificial intelligence has transformed from a technological product into the foundational infrastructure of global civilization. This essay introduces the concept of the Compute-Power Doctrine: the idea…
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The Beijing Variable: A Geopolitical Analysis of US-China Relations After the Trump-Xi Summit, May 2026
The May 2026 Trump-Xi summit in Beijing was not merely a diplomatic encounter. It was a strategic test of power, leverage, and necessity between the world’s two most consequential states. Behind the ceremonial warmth lay unresolved tensions over Taiwan, Iran, energy security, trade, technology, Russia, Japan, Europe, and the future of global order. This essay…
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Five Books to Understand the Geopolitical System: Power, Empire, Diplomacy, Pandemic, and the Return of History
This essay examines five important books that help readers understand the geopolitical system through history, power, diplomacy, disease, empire, and trade routes. From Henry Every’s piracy and the rise of global capitalism to Vladimir Putin’s strategic worldview, from Ukraine’s diplomatic struggle to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Silk Roads, these books reveal that geopolitics is…
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Dari Tim Kaine ke Donald Trump: Krisis Grand Strategy Amerika dan Konflik Iran–Israel
Dunia tidak lagi dapat dikendalikan dengan doktrin lama. Melalui pembacaan mendalam terhadap pemikiran Tim Kaine, artikel ini menunjukkan bagaimana Amerika kehilangan grand strategy sejak runtuhnya Perang Dingin. Dalam konteks konflik Iran–Israel di era Donald Trump, kekuatan militer tidak lagi cukup untuk menjelaskan arah kebijakan. Iran muncul bukan hanya sebagai lawan, tetapi sebagai cermin dari krisis…