Qatar seeks to capture China’s growing Gulf logistics push as war disrupts trade routes

The dollar still dominates global finance. But sanctions, frozen reserves, tariffs, gold repatriation, BRICS payment plans and rising geopolitical tension are forcing governments to ask a harder question: how much national security should depend on another country’s financial system?

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How executives and professionals can read the forces reshaping industries, distinguish signal from noise, and make better decisions about what comes next.