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Palantir's European Exits and the Unresolved Question of Strategic Autonomy
France's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu did not lead with cost overruns or technical failure when he announced in June 2026 that the DGSI would end its relationship with Palantir in favour of French firm ChapsVision. He led with a question of control. France, he said, could not depend on partners capable of cutting access to critical technology at will, on their own terms, for their own reasons. The concern was not hypothetical. It had just been demonstrated. Weeks earlier,
A New Hybrid Figure: CEO Diplomacy and the Changing Architecture of Great-Power Competition
Source: OpenAI By Tamar Shengelia When a semiconductor CEO travels with the president, he is no longer just a businessman. And when a rival power targets his company while he sits at the negotiating table, he is no longer just a businessman either. The Beijing summit of May 2026 revealed the emergence of a new geopolitical figure: the CEO-diplomat. The Beijing summit offered a revealing glimpse into the evolving role of the technology CEO in contemporary geopolitics, with the
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