Three shocks that shook us in 2025Listen to this articleVisitors ride on spinning tea cups in Kyiv on Sunday. The contradiction was fatal: If the Ukraine war ended with a peace deal, it would be hard to sustain this economic pump-priming. In 2025, this strategy met its Waterloo, and Europe was again the primary collateral damage. In 2025, the US proved incapable of slowing China's rise and, instead, unwittingly propelled its tech sector towards full independence. Mr Trump's acquiescence to Chinese President Xi Jinping has triggered a flood of Chinese exports to the EU.

Source: Bangkok Post December 24, 2025 00:17 UTC