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Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.

Arms trafficking in the Caribbean has soared in recent years, with many states now ranking firearms trafficking as the number one public safety and security threat. As new methods of arming individuals and gangs emerge across the Caribbean, gun violence...

Commentary, Carribean, Transnational Criminal Organizations

China’s WZ-X points to a future in which stealth, endurance, surveillance and strike converge in a new class of unmanned aircraft built for sustained operations across the vast distances of the Pacific. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that...

Military, Block 2, China Drones

China’s humanoid robot industry has moved beyond flashy demonstrations of robots running, boxing and dancing. A Reuters review of more than 100 Chinese military procurement notices, academic studies, patents, government records and defence industry materials found that China’s military is...

Science & Technology, Artificial Intelligence, China

A female fish seller at a Saigon market was contacting her clients via her a smart phone. Digital technology has accelerated and facilitated business operations in South-East Asia. Credit: Unsplash / Robson Hatsukami Morgan By Ruhimat Soerakoesoemah, Andrey Panteleev and Philip...

Artificial Intelligence, Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid

Figs mean summer — they represent the summer heat, where the sweet scent of fig trees mingles with the chirping of crickets and the singing cicadas. The scent of fig leaves on sleep-inducing lazy afternoons and the indescribable honey-like taste...

Arts & Life

Western coverage of Chinese artificial intelligence still tends to treat the competition as a model contest: can a Chinese company match the best American system? China is certainly in that race. But it is also pursuing a quieter route. Chinese...

Technology, Alibaba, Artificial Intelligence

A Truth Social post in which President Donald Trump declared that there are "too many non-working holidays in America” and demanded that “it must change,” went viral on X this week, with analysts — incorrectly — labeling the post Trump’s...

Donald-trump, Enewsletter, Iran

In his first non-Congressional public speech since his Republican primary loss to Ed Gallrhein, Thomas Massie brought some of the loudest energy to the Ron Paul Institute’s Washington conference on Saturday. He was full of jokes and promise for the...

Iran-war, Ron-paul, Thomas-massie

China’s endorsement of Egypt’s right to protect its water and food security marks a significant diplomatic development in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute. It does not amount to a formal rejection of Ethiopia’s dam, but it gives Cairo’s...

Middle East & Africa, China, Egypt

One problem with following innovation is that the extraordinary now arrives disguised as the weekly. A frontier model trained on more than 100,000 GPUs, several leading AI services stumbling in the same morning, a camera-chip company redesigning itself around edge...

Technology, AGI, AI agent civilizations

Vučić’s threat to divert the Ibar River is not a Kosovo policy — it is manufactured leverage aimed at three audiences at once: Brussels, where Serbia’s own accession has stalled while Ukraine and Moldova pull ahead on the EU’s own...

Europe, Analysis, European Union

In a war, length is far more important than ferocity. Trying to keep a war from escalating might seem like a prudent thing (and academic theory, which simply does not understand history, says as much). However, clamping down on escalation...

Asia Times, Opinion, Pentagon's Hegseth ethos

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun US-South Korean bilateral ties have come under increasing strain, with months of political bickering now spilling into the operational sphere. President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise between South Korean...

News

The jury took just two hours. Tony Greenstein – Jewish socialist, anti-Zionist – had faced fourteen years under the Terrorism Act for three social media posts and a blog article opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Crown called it “inviting...

Uncategorized

American bombs are now falling on Tehran, and while Donald Trump ultimately pulled the trigger, administrations before him—Republican and Democrat alike—constructed the gun, and even loaded it. In 1995, US president Bill Clinton issued executive orders banning US investment tied...

Uncategorized

Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) is about to become a game-changer for Eurasian energy trade, and Europe’s January 2027 ban on Russian LNG is pushing Moscow to bring it to life sooner than planned. LNG will remain its foundation, while...

News

When a Treasury secretary reaches for Normandy to describe a sanctions package, the mission has already outgrown its sales pitch. Scott Bessent’s new Financial Times essay is more than a case for tightening pressure on Iran. He says American force...

Americas, Economics, Iran

An Oakland Institute analysis challenges claims that a large increase in mining is an unavoidable cost of replacing fossil fuels. Using International Energy Agency (IEA) data, Oakland calculated that wind, solar, renewable-power networks, grid batteries and electric vehicles accounted for...

News

Darius awakens to discover the guards have been betting on him; Weili makes a plea; and Longwei reveals a frightening secret. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part...

#Culture, #Life, featured

In line with Russia’s state policy, International Bridge Awards was established to recognize entrepreneurial contributions and to foster dialogue on attracting special talents to Russia. The International Bridge Awards was established for talented and ambitious professionals from around the world,...

Global Social Change, Culture, Interview

Priority number one is not the Ukraine-Russia war or the upheavalment (see genocide) in Gaza; however, there is a global disintegration of family life all over the world. Masses of people are forced by government legislation to be moved forcibly...

African Renaissance, Africa, Literature

While electric car and truck sales have grown more slowly than expected in recent years, prompting governments to rethink clean fuel targets and automakers to slow the pace of EV production, electric motorcycles are becoming increasingly popular in certain parts...

News

Advanced semiconductor packaging has become essential to improving computing performance as conventional transistor scaling grows more difficult and expensive. Instead of manufacturing an entire processor as one large monolithic die, chipmakers can divide it into smaller chiplets and combine logic,...

3D IC, Chiplet, Intel Foundry

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo represents a major strategic step that is reshaping the balance of power in the Middle East and raising deep concerns for both the United States and Israel. The American and Israeli concern stems...

Middle East & Africa, China, Defense

The Coming world depression requires a New International Economic Order led by Russia, China, and Iran Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics...

Economics, Energy, Finance

UNEP’s Limiting Overshoot report keeps plodding along the same timid route James Dyke is Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter Cross-posted from Technosphere Earth Overshoot is official. This week the United Nations Environment Programme published the report...

Climate Crisis, Article, James Dyke

Liam and Noel Gallagher of the band Oasis arrived at the Venice Film Festival via water taxi ahead of the documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” which highlights their reunion tour after years of feuding. When asked about Venice,...

Arts & Culture, Cinema, Music

Sander is an Applied-physics graduate from TU Delft. Worked at a semiconductor start-up during his studies, decided building a company would be the most interesting way to shape his career. In 2010, a TU Delft professor suggested combining light and...

CEO Interviews, AMOLF, Andries Effting

Oman, a major oil and gas producer, plans to expand its renewable energy capacity as part of its energy diversification and green transition goals. The government recently introduced new national policies to expand Oman’s green energy and cleantech industries and...

News

Germany has form in false flags. Making its claim of a Russian drone attack on the anniversary of a claim of being attacked by Poland in 1939 to begin its invasion is more than irony Craig Murray is a British former...

Geopolitics, National Politics, Article

The People’s Republic of China possesses a broad network of geopolitical and economic interests in the Horn of Africa, a region of vital importance to Chinese interests. This gives it significant and direct leverage over Ethiopia. While Beijing traditionally adheres...

Middle East & Africa, China, Economics

The multipolar world has closely watched the importance of SCO’s 26th meeting of the Council of Heads of State, as it marked the “25 Years of the SCO: Together for Sustainable Peace, Development and Prosperity.” Introduction From 31 August to...

Central Asia, Locations, Politics

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It has not been much of a secret, but I am back in Russia with Judge Napolitano and a couple of other podcast luminaries, to participate in a series of academic seminars dedicated to finding a way for Russia and...

Larry C. Johnson
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