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Resource-rich nations want more than export revenue. From 🇮🇩 Indonesia’s nickel ban to 🇨🇱 Chile’s lithium plan, a new wave of Can it build real industry — or just new dependencies?

Full @GYSTnews analysis: gystnews.substack.com/p/from-ore-t...

#GYSTnews #CriticalMinerals #EnergyTransition #Mining
From ore to order: can resource nationalism fuel real development?
Export bans and state involvement promise self-reliance. The question is whether they deliver more than new bottlenecks.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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They’re called “small states,” but they’re quietly shaping global rules 🌐
Vietnam, Türkiye, the Netherlands — and others — are keeping trade, tech, and climate cooperation alive while superpowers drift.

🔗 gystnews.substack.com/p/long-game-...

#MiddlePowers #Geopolitics #Multipolar #GYSTnews
The long game of small states: middle powers as the new rule-writers
From trade corridors to climate compacts, middle powers are redrawing the map of influence.
gystnews.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Tired of hot takes? GYST runs on cold facts.
🌍 Three essays a week breaking down the intersection of power, climate, and tech — clear, calm, global.
Free to subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/gystnews...
#GYSTnews #geopolitics #climate #techpolicy
GYST | Substack
Because the news isn’t helping. Essays on geopolitics, trade, and resources. Three times a week. Click to read GYST, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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From Anatolia to Basra, the water truce has collapsed. What broke, and what could still hold.?

Read the GYST: gystnews.substack.com/p/vanishing-...

#ClimateRisk #MENA
The vanishing pact: inside the collapse of the Tigris–Euphrates order
Upstream control, climate stress, and vanishing trust are rewriting the rules of Mesopotamia’s rivers.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Crypto didn’t sidestep the state, it handed it new rails.

CBDCs + tokenized trade = sovereignty by design.

GYST → gystnews.substack.com/p/token-bord...

#CBDC #DigitalSovereignty #GlobalSouth
Token borders: when crypto becomes a tool of sovereignty
From El Salvador to Beijing, digital currencies are reshaping not just finance but the foundations of national independence.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Beijing’s export bans look reactive. They’re not.

This is resource strategy in motion, and the world’s new order forming in the supply chain.

Read the GYST→ gystnews.substack.com/p/chokepoint...
#CriticalMinerals #China #EnergyTransition
Chokepoint diplomacy: how China turned minerals into leverage
Beijing’s latest export controls are more than tariff retaliation; they mark the rise of a resource-based world order.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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When code becomes law, coders become lawmakers.

New on GYST: how software, data, and standards are changing global power.

#digitalgovernance #AI #geopolitics #GYSTnews

gystnews.substack.com/p/who-writes...
Who writes the code rules the world
As software replaces law as the world’s operating system, a new kind of power struggle is unfolding, not over land or armies, but over who gets to write the rules everyone else must follow.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Im trying my hand at writing: geopolitics , trade, resources. Basically piecing the workd together . Get GYST free, three times per week, in your inbox.

substack.com/@gystnews?r=...

#GYSTnews #geopolitics
GYST | Substack
Because the world won’t explain itself. Long-form insight on geopolitics, trade, and resources.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The world’s carbon budget for 1.5°C is almost spent and democracies are on the spot.

Why haven’t democracies cut emissions as fast as scientists say we must?

Check out the latest GYST.

gystnews.substack.com/p/carbon-bud...

#GYSTnews #Climate #Democracy #1Point5Degrees
The next great test of democracy: governing a warming planet
The carbon budget clock is ticking, but the story isn’t over. The question is whether our systems of governance can act on what science already knows.
gystnews.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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The world’s carbon budget for 1.5°C is almost spent and democracies are on the spot.

Why haven’t democracies cut emissions as fast as scientists say we must?

Check out the latest GYST.

gystnews.substack.com/p/carbon-bud...

#GYSTnews #Climate #Democracy #1Point5Degrees
The next great test of democracy: governing a warming planet
The carbon budget clock is ticking, but the story isn’t over. The question is whether our systems of governance can act on what science already knows.
gystnews.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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The dream is simple: connect the world’s sun, wind, and water so energy flows freely, but every wire that crosses a border carries the challenge of political agreement.

Can a global grid make progress?

gystnews.substack.com/p/wired-plan...

#GYSTnews #Energy #Infrastructure #Geopolitics
Wired planet: can a global power grid survive national politics?
A truly global grid could balance the planet’s energy, turning sunlight, wind, and water into a shared resource. Yet every connection runs into the same barriers — politics, power, and trust.
gystnews.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Globalization isn’t collapsing, it’s reorganizing.

From CPTPP to BRICS+, blocs are turning rules and routes into power.
The architecture of World 2.0 → gystnews.substack.com/p/world-2-0-...

#GYSTnews #trade #geopolitics #connectivity
World 2.0: inside the architecture of new trade blocs
Despite what the more alarming news media may be insisting, globalization isn’t dying, or even facing collapse. Instead, it’s reorganizing.
gystnews.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Energy independence is the dream, but every solar panel and battery is already part of a global system. The real future of freedom isn’t isolation, it’s transparency: seeing how we’re connected, and choosing those ties wisely.

gystnews.substack.com/p/paradox-of...

#GYSTnews #Energy #Democracy
The paradox of energy independence: why every nation still relies on others
Every promise of energy independence hides a network of unseen ties: from rooftop panels to global grids, autonomy now means learning how to share power wisely.
gystnews.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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AI runs. Law walks.

EU rules hit in August 2025; the U.S. switched to CAISI in June.

The real question: can democracy keep meaning when even its watchdogs need algorithms to understand the rules?

gystnews.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...

#GYSTnews #AIgovernance #techpolicy
AI and the capacity to govern: Can democracy keep up?
The tools of the future are being built faster than the rules that should guide them. As artificial intelligence matures, democracies must prove they can still set the terms of power.
gystnews.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The US–China trade war is on pause. 🤝 A fragile thaw in a heated rivalry shows how tariffs and trade deals are now tools of power politics. What does this mean and why is trust the missing piece?

gystnews.substack.com/p/us-china-t...

#GYSTnews #trade #geopolitics #globalgovernance
https://gystnews.substack.com/p/us…
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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ASEAN’s expansion and new trade pacts are turning Southeast Asia into the hinge of clean-tech manufacturing—courted by both Washington and Beijing.
Full essay on GYST:

gystnews.substack.com/p/asia-suppl...

#GYSTnews #ASEAN #supplychains #energytransition
https://gystnews.substack.com/p/asi…
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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ASEAN’s expansion and new trade pacts are turning Southeast Asia into the hinge of clean-tech manufacturing—courted by both Washington and Beijing.
Full essay on GYST:

gystnews.substack.com/p/asia-suppl...

#GYSTnews #ASEAN #supplychains #energytransition
https://gystnews.substack.com/p/asi…
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
peripateticrat.bsky.social
The US–China trade war is on pause. 🤝 A fragile thaw in a heated rivalry shows how tariffs and trade deals are now tools of power politics. What does this mean and why is trust the missing piece?

gystnews.substack.com/p/us-china-t...

#GYSTnews #trade #geopolitics #globalgovernance
https://gystnews.substack.com/p/us…
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
peripateticrat.bsky.social
AI runs. Law walks.

EU rules hit in August 2025; the U.S. switched to CAISI in June.

The real question: can democracy keep meaning when even its watchdogs need algorithms to understand the rules?

gystnews.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...

#GYSTnews #AIgovernance #techpolicy
AI and the capacity to govern: Can democracy keep up?
The tools of the future are being built faster than the rules that should guide them. As artificial intelligence matures, democracies must prove they can still set the terms of power.
gystnews.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
peripateticrat.bsky.social
Energy independence is the dream, but every solar panel and battery is already part of a global system. The real future of freedom isn’t isolation, it’s transparency: seeing how we’re connected, and choosing those ties wisely.

gystnews.substack.com/p/paradox-of...

#GYSTnews #Energy #Democracy
The paradox of energy independence: why every nation still relies on others
Every promise of energy independence hides a network of unseen ties: from rooftop panels to global grids, autonomy now means learning how to share power wisely.
gystnews.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Gyeongju APEC vs SCO: let’s compare two summits, two systems. Seoul’s stand on trade and democracy will show whether law or leverage rules the 21st-century economy.

gystnews.substack.com/p/law-or-lev...

#GYSTnews #USKorea #Trade
Law or leverage: South Korea’s moment of truth at Gyeongju
Washington’s tariff threats have turned an alliance into an audit, and put the rule of law itself on trial at APEC.
gystnews.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
peripateticrat.bsky.social
Im trying my hand at writing: geopolitics , trade, resources. Basically piecing the workd together . Get GYST free, three times per week, in your inbox.

substack.com/@gystnews?r=...

#GYSTnews #geopolitics
GYST | Substack
Because the world won’t explain itself. Long-form insight on geopolitics, trade, and resources.
substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Globalization isn’t collapsing, it’s reorganizing.

From CPTPP to BRICS+, blocs are turning rules and routes into power.
The architecture of World 2.0 → gystnews.substack.com/p/world-2-0-...

#GYSTnews #trade #geopolitics #connectivity
World 2.0: inside the architecture of new trade blocs
Despite what the more alarming news media may be insisting, globalization isn’t dying, or even facing collapse. Instead, it’s reorganizing.
gystnews.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
peripateticrat.bsky.social
The dream is simple: connect the world’s sun, wind, and water so energy flows freely, but every wire that crosses a border carries the challenge of political agreement.

Can a global grid make progress?

gystnews.substack.com/p/wired-plan...

#GYSTnews #Energy #Infrastructure #Geopolitics
Wired planet: can a global power grid survive national politics?
A truly global grid could balance the planet’s energy, turning sunlight, wind, and water into a shared resource. Yet every connection runs into the same barriers — politics, power, and trust.
gystnews.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
peripateticrat.bsky.social
When code becomes law, coders become lawmakers.

New on GYST: how software, data, and standards are changing global power.

#digitalgovernance #AI #geopolitics #GYSTnews

gystnews.substack.com/p/who-writes...
Who writes the code rules the world
As software replaces law as the world’s operating system, a new kind of power struggle is unfolding, not over land or armies, but over who gets to write the rules everyone else must follow.
gystnews.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM