#Sanctions

The instruments of fifth-generation economic war, tracked — sanctions, tariffs, export controls, currency, industrial policy, and the kinetic edge — across the three operator-grids (US / China / BRICS), each action with a status and a receipt.

The dominant form of great-power conflict is now non-kinetic: currency chokepoints, sanctions, tariffs, export controls, industrial policy, and — at the edge — designation-authorized force. The instruments, the competing state ratchets (US / China / BRICS), and why exercising a capability builds the counter-capability.

The off-switch on money, country by country — China's programmable e-CNY, the EU's promised-not-to ECB, India's PMLA freezes, the US sanctions record. The component the Convergence Index scores.