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China Party Congress: Xi broke with recent precedent by not anointing a successor, pointing to the potential for his influence/control to persist for decades. With Xi Jinping Thought placed in the Constitution 20 University Institutes have already been set up to teach...

Saudi Arabia: top ministers were sacked, giving yet more power to the Crown Prince. Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) conducted a purge of many high-ranking princes, functionaries and businessmen. Trump Tweeted his support for this ‘anti-corruption’ campaign. The...

Saudi Purge: arrests continued even after U.S. State Department calls for transparent investigations / trial processes – hoping to reinforce the rule of law. UAE and Kuwaiti banks have, reportedly, been cooperating with requests for information about accounts...

Zimbabwe: a coup but not a revolution. Pressure from African states has seemingly kept the process to remove Mugabe within the existing constitutional framework. This substantially increases the chances of a new leader with a similar leadership style/method. Even...

Qatar, UAE: countries across the world worried as the Qatar-GCC argument was forced into the World Trade Organization. Qatar took the UAE to the litigation stage of its complaint regarding the imposition of a trade embargo. The UAE has stated its intention to use the...

Flynn Plea: Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pled guilty to the charge of lying to the FBI. He is cooperating with the Special Counsel’s investigation and could yet incriminate others. Fevered speculation has suggested that...