Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
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...
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...
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...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 New in The Lever : Artificial intelligence rules were coming. Then the White House stepped in . 🎧 Listen : What’s hiding in the Paramount merger? 👇 Further down in...
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...
SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on Monday, Reuters reported, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites on the vehicle's 14th test flight after one of its six upper-stage engines failed roughly two and a half minutes into the mission....
The Money That Runs Out Today At midnight tonight, $300 million that Congress appropriated as military financing for Taiwan expires unused. The State Department was supposed to notify Congress of how it would be spent by 15 September. It did...
The Thabo Mbeki Foundation has warned that abandoning efforts to dismantle the economic legacy of apartheid while Afrikaner organisations pursue greater cultural autonomy could deepen South Africa’s racial divisions and ultimately provoke serious social instability. In a sweeping 123-page paper, The...
Marie-Celestin Karondwa was attacked on Sunday after promoting measures to prevent spread of disease, his party says A senior member of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ruling party was beaten to death on Sunday after appearing on a radio programme...
The United States faces critical dependencies on foreign supply chains across several strategic sectors: rare earth metals, pharmaceuticals, and shipbuilding. U.S. Ambassador to China, David Purdue, has characterized this situation as unacceptable, warning that even initiating a move away from...
On September 15, the House of Representatives voted 220–204 for a resolution directing the removal of U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran. The vote placed lawmakers’ positions on continued involvement on the record ahead of November’s midterm elections. It also...
The world is full of a thousand little rules we instinctively follow. Don’t make eye contact for too long. If you drop your trash by accident, pick it up. Don’t throw things at people. Photo by Edan Cohen on Unsplash And in...
Europe is currently benefiting from the closed arbitrage between the U.S. Gulf Coast and Asia and is taking more LNG supplies in possible relief from concerns about winter gas supply. The Atlantic-Pacific arbitrage is closed for the rest of this...
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack . Why does it feel like everything is breaking down, like something is fundamentally wrong with the American economy? Unemployment rates stay stubbornly low despite constant predictions, inflation is worse than recent...
Amidst all the talk of the need for government regulation of artificial intelligence , there has been too little discussion of the simplest route: criminal liability. The basic story is that the AI companies are being irresponsible in dealing with...
The United States and China are taking another step back from a full-scale trade war. After a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the two sides agreed to reciprocal tariff reductions covering about $30 billion worth of goods in...
Like all political parties in Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany is a commercial operation. A special national system finances political parties from federal taxes, paying for elections, advertising and the running of party offices. Berlin provides this money to...
Donald Trump gave Xi Jinping the full state-visit treatment in Washington, but markets were more interested in what the two leaders did not deliver. After three days of ceremony, an unusually warm presidential welcome and repeated pledges to stabilize relations...
Seven Days, Again On 23 September, in a meeting room at the United Nations, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, sat down with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Qatar, Pakistan and Egypt were in the room as mediators. Within 48 hours...
Sarada Murlidharan, Photo: Supplied By Kumkum Chadha NEW DEHLI, Sep 28 2026 (IPS) As a young girl, Sarada Murlidharan cringed at the thought of going to school. It was not the studies but the taunts of ‘being black’ or having dark skin, where...
State-owned QatarEnergy has extended the force majeure on LNG deliveries to Asia and Europe by another month through the end of November, as LNG cargo traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains largely blocked amid the protracted U.S.-Iran stalemate over...
Qatari mediators are set to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in New York, along with separate discussions with the US, on Monday or Tuesday to address the ongoing war. These talks will focus on a revised seven-day proposal...
EU members approved plans for five defence projects that will receive EU funding. These projects aim to improve Europe’s defence in areas like space, sea, air, and drone warfare. The European Defence Projects of Common Interest (EDPCIs) enable collaboration among...
Speakers at a human rights conference in Geneva on Friday called on the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to send an independent mission to investigate allegations that Sudan’s army used chlorine weapons in...
Smaller generations are entering the workforce as larger generations retire and begin receiving pension benefits. Credit: Shutterstock By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, Sep 28 2026 (IPS) Dozens of government-funded pension programs providing benefits to hundreds of millions of men and women face growing...
Russian drone strikes killed at least four people in Ukraine overnight and into September 27, including one person in the capital, Kyiv, and three in the southeastern Zaporizhzhya region, Ukrainian officials said. In Kyiv, a man was killed when a...
Amidst a deep socio-economic crisis and acute political confrontation in the US, President Donald Trump is trying to turn around negative forecasts ahead of the congressional elections through populist measures and aggressive rhetoric, which only deepens the rift in American...
The world’s biggest exporter of thermal coal, Indonesia, is not benefiting from tightening global coal markets amid an Asian switch to coal from gas due to the Middle East crisis choking LNG supply. Indonesian thermal coal exports have been crimped...
Synopsys today announced its AgentEngineer TM solutions portfolio and Autopilot TM Platform, advancing a fundamental paradigm shift in electronic design automation (EDA moving beyond AI copilots toward autonomous engineering agents. Following a recent technical briefing with Thomas Andersen, Vice...
The UK power system faces a margin shortfall of 1.4 gigawatts (GW) on Monday evening local time, the National Energy System Operator said in a routine precautionary notice. During the spring and the summer record heatwaves, the National Energy System...
On September 19, French President Emmanuel Macron touched down in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, France’s last remaining territory in North America. The tiny fishing archipelago is home to fewer than 6,000 people, all of them full French citizens, and it is relatively unknown...
The Trump-Xi summit did not mark a US-China rapprochement, but it demonstrates that sustained diplomacy and strategic guardrails are essential to prevent intensifying competition from becoming direct conflict. The recent summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald...
Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices rose by 2% in early trade in Amsterdam on Monday, as the United States and Iran are again locked in a stalemate over negotiations and conditions for reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The front-month...
Less than two months after his government hosted the NATO summit — which was framed as proof of Turkey’s pivotal role in transatlantic security — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has proposed full Turkish membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, an...
Russia has formally rejected Germany's ambitions to obtain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, citing Berlin's failure to adhere to international agreements and its current military trajectory. The position was detailed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a...
TotalEnergies expects its oil and gas production to grow by more than 3% every year until 2030 due to start-ups of new low-cost projects currently under development, the French supermajor said in its 2026 strategy and outlook on Monday. Overall...
US President Donald Trump wanted his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington last week to demonstrate the strength of their personal relationship and show that direct diplomacy could keep competition between the world’s two largest economies under control....
A man carries his family’s food ration from a WFP distribution point to his shelter in Camp 11, Balukhali, Bangladesh, on September 24, 2026. Credit: Mohammed Zonaid/IPS By Mohammed Zonaid COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Sep 28 2026 (IPS) For Mohammed Dullah, recent cuts in...
One of my fundamental beliefs about the world is that Ramez Naam ought to blog more. Ramez is one of the world’s greatest futurists — he predicted the solar and battery revolutions long before these were widely understood. If you were reading Ramez in...
Thanks to diversified import capabilities, Germany doesn’t face a gas supply shortage despite record-low levels of natural gas in storage sites, according to one of the biggest German gas importers, VNG. “Compared to 2022, the system is much more robust...
This paper is a reflective scholarly essay written from the author’s position as a doctoral candidate and scholar-practitioner. It draws on personal academic experience and established literature on scholarship and learning communities, and it is addressed to a broad audience...
Trump’s speech at the 81st General Assembly shows that warmongering USA may accelerate in practice. Whether other nations respond appropriately is a separate matter. Trump’s Military Threat at the UNGA While the UN Charter, the document that established the United...
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