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        <![CDATA[<p>Explore how critical geographic bottlenecks are reshaping energy costs, supply chains, and geopolitical risk—moving from peripheral concern to core business assumption. This briefing maps the structural forces redefining resource access and regional stability for the decade ahead.</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>This week: Daniel Yergin on why the Strait of Hormuz crisis signals a genuinely different world — and what that means for boards beyond the energy market. The quiet but accelerating infrastructure behind renminbi internationalisation, and why it matters even if you're not in China-adjacent trade. And what the World Bank's new position on industrial policy actually means for executives betting on government support. The IMF's macro layer sitting underneath all of it.</p>]]>
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