Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
US forces are set to leave their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, ending more than two decades of American military presence in the country and creating a new strategic opening for Iran and its allies. The withdrawal, agreed in...
A troubled Darius is comforted by Ahmed, confronts a prince, and meets a pair of fearsome Kurdish mercenaries. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part...
I recently read 4 articles about China “ America, China and the Evolving New World Order ” (TIME) Washington views Beijing's parallel institutional networks and tech alternatives as a direct challenge to the US-led global architecture. https://time.com/article/2026/09/24/america-china-trump-xi-jinping-global-order/?hl=en-CA “ The EU and China: An Inevitable...
Volkswagen has spent years trying to build a European battery business strong enough to carry its electric-car ambitions. Its latest deal pulls a Chinese partner deeper into that effort. On September 28, Germany’s Volkswagen and China’s Gotion High-Tech agreed to...
A peace plan can be negotiated in conference rooms. Securing it requires someone willing to stand on the ground. Gaza’s post-war framework has increasingly confronted that distinction. The UN Security Council-backed plan established the Board of Peace to oversee a...
Rob Jetten, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, addresses the High-level Meeting on Climate Action and the Just Transition on September 23. Credit: UN Photo/Laura Jarriel By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Sep 29 2026 (IPS) On September 23, the United Nations...
Crude oil prices extended a climb that began on Monday, despite reports that oil flows via the Strait of Hormuz have improved considerably since the start of September. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $107.37 per...
The euro’s strong run against the dollar is facing a new test as higher energy prices, political uncertainty and renewed pressure on European bond markets threaten to undermine a currency that had appeared increasingly resilient. The euro had been heading...
On 4 October Brazil will hold an election which involves more than just the choice between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro. It is a struggle concerning sovereignty, democracy and Brazil’s position in a rapidly changing world, with Washington keeping a close...
US President Donald Trump has denied reports that Washington is prepared to offer Iran sanctions relief and access to frozen funds in exchange for concessions on its nuclear program, adding fresh uncertainty to diplomatic efforts to end the seven month...
By any measure, 2026 has been a disastrous year for President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. An Iran war in which Trump promised quick victory has turned into a protracted farce dragging down the world economy. The president’s “reciprocal tariffs” were gutted...
There’s something profoundly human about the scapegoat. From the ancient Israelites and Greeks to the Aztecs , global cultures have long sought to concentrate society’s ills in a single vessel, cleansing the rest of us in the process. Today, the Democratic...
Fire at KNDS Ammo Plant in Italy Since March 2026, a string of fires and explosions has hit European companies that supply Ukraine’s war effort. Some circulating accounts, including a widely shared video ( Borzzikman ), have inflated this into a...
An Italian SAMP/T in Estonia Italy has sent one of its SAMP/T air-defence batteries, Europe’s most capable home-built system, to Estonia as part of NATO’s Eastern Sentry mission. At home, its defence minister, Guido Crosetto, says Italy will not be...
Just five weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, with early voting having already begun, the Supreme Court ruling could enable Republican officials to run multiple checks of voters in Democratic precincts, flagging hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of...
Last December, the EU seemed to have found a way around one of its biggest disagreements over Ukraine. European leaders approved a €90 billion loan for 2026 and 2027, while the much more controversial idea of using frozen Russian assets...
By: Ainur Rohmah Firefighters attempt to extinguish flames burning peatland in Central Kalimantan. Photo from ANTARA Indonesia is once again scrambling to respond to a string of disasters that have swept across the country, from floods and landslides in Sumatra and earthquakes...
Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November. Polling with generic ballots suggest a big win for the Democrats and likely the loss of...
Over the past seven months, shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dwindled to a trickle, with Iran effectively closing the critical maritime chokepoint ever since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks against it. Consequently, major global shipping companies...
The British Police say that the five men arrested in connection with a suspected bomb plot targeting RAF Fairford are all British nationals. Nothing has yet been said officially about who was behind the plot. The risk to US assets...
At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed that China take the lead in establishing a BRICS AI open-source community. His proposal envisaged cooperation in developing and applying large language models, conducting AI training and...
Looking back over the trials and hardships of the road traveled, the lens of time reveals change as well as steadfastness. The transformation in the way China and the United States interact demonstrates the new atmosphere and reshaping of the...
My previous suggestion to both the American and Chinese sides—as an internationally renowned Egyptian expert on Chinese politics and the policies of the ruling Communist Party of China—was the necessity of establishing a coordinator position for Sino-American relations. This is...
Oil prices rebounded from their recent slide on fears of U.S.-Iran escalation after attempts at diplomacy yielded mixed results, with speeches by leaders on both sides laced with threats and belligerence. Brent crude for November delivery was up 1.70% to...
A note before we start. What follows works through the innovation loops of the semiconductor world, sub-sector by sub-sector, with eight diagrams along the way. They are complicated, despite a fair amount of effort to make them otherwise. Anyone who...
The 2026 TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum was held on September 23, 2026, in Santa Clara, CA. This is the event where TSMC showcases the substantial progress made with its massive semiconductor ecosystem. As one would expect, AI...
The fuel trading market is expanding from an established group of specialized desks at oil majors, commodity trading houses, and refiners to AI-assisted trades. AI could either make the sometimes opaque fuel trading a level playing field for many new...
On the sidelines of the 81st UNGA, Sergey Lavrov and Belarus’s Maxim Ryzhenkov launched work on a “Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century,” with an open expert group and a first in-person round in Minsk by...
The U.S.–Iran and Russia–Ukraine wars are more than regional or military conflicts. They are exposing weaknesses in the global energy and economic system and demonstrating that energy security can no longer be seen as independent of financial security, transportation, military...
Beijing may let its technology giants buy more Nvidia high-end chips, giving the US chip designer a fresh foothold in China and keeping Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) developers tied to its software after months of stalled trade. China’s Ministry of...
A financial magnate just admitted something incredible: If artificial intelligence helps consumers find the best bank interest rates, it may undermine the entire financial system. That suggests the stability of U.S. banks depends on ripping off depositors. New data highlighted by Torsten...
Serbia's president has decided to leave office in order to participate in the upcoming parliamentary election. His call to Moscow before resigning points to particular expectations Vučić's Kremlin call set the price of gas for Serbia Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has resigned...
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...
Energy models have an unusual talent. However chaotic the present may be, the future almost always becomes remarkably calm. Wars end. Shipping lanes reopen. LNG terminals work as planned. Winters remain manageable. Producers deliver. Markets rebalance. And natural gas prices...
Palantir is getting its hands on public data across Europe, despite its record of using data for surveillance and AI warfare. Access the PDF Picture by Lucas Kendall We are European organisations demanding that our governments and the European Commission scrap all existing...
The reaction in Israel to a new documentary about the Zionist regime’s crimes in Gaza shows just how dedicated the political class is to genocide. Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, best–selling author, filmmaker and co–founder of Declassified Australia. He’s written...
The British Government has sanctioned an attempt by the Orange Order to march into a predominantly Irish Nationalist community, but the move is being resisted on the streets. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and commentator, and a supporter of Rise,...
Crude stocks in the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve stood at 284.6 million barrels for the week ending September 18, according to the Energy Information Administration, down from 285.0 million the week before and 406.0 million a year earlier. Department of...
President Trump’s suggestion that China buy American weapons is not a serious arms proposal. It is an off-the-cuff negotiating probe designed to disrupt standard diplomatic scripts, test reactions, and create transactional leverage. U.S. law strictly prohibits arms sales to China, and...
Refinery production figures, export contracts and tanker routes are now off-limits to public reporting in Russia, under a decree Putin signed Monday, Reuters reported. The Kremlin points to unfriendly actions by Washington and its allies as the reason, and the...
Islam Times - Palestinian factions issued statements marking the 26th anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which began on September 28, 2000, reaffirming their commitment to Palestinian national rights and the continued confrontation of the occupation amid the ongoing war on...
Islam Times - On the second anniversary of the martyrdom of the heroic Arab leader and symbol of the Resistance Front, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Ayatollah Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei issued a...
Standard aviation kerosene relies on aromatic compounds that increase both carbon emissions and acoustic pressure during combustion. This chemical bottleneck makes aircraft loud and carbon-heavy. To bypass this, researchers from the Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, Tomsk Polytechnic University, the...
In late August, water temperatures off the coast of Santa Barbara climbed to 21-22°C. Fishermen near the Channel Islands began hauling in dorado and yellowfin tuna-species typically absent from these northern latitudes unless a strong El Niño event is underway....
By Piyush Bag Intro: In this AI era, building data centers has become crucial not just for hyperscalers, but for many companies as well, as they build the infrastructure for AI. At a high level, a data center includes compute, storage,...
Colombia’s economically vital petroleum industry is in a death spiral. Oil and natural gas production is falling despite efforts to boost output and grow efficiencies. New President Abelardo de la Espriella, a former criminal defense attorney, has put energy security...
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As David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s “ AI whisperer ,” urged the White House to take a light-touch approach to AI regulation, the tech tycoon’s venture capital firm launched a new round of investments in AI startups that stood to...
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