Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
U.S. officials held an undisclosed meeting with representatives of Yemen’s Houthis in Oman over the weekend, according to five sources familiar with the discussions, as the Iran backed group expands its control along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. The meeting took...
Announcement of visa restrictions follows Trump’s false claims of ‘white genocide’ taking place in South Africa The US has announced visa restrictions on some South Africans as Donald Trump’s administration continues to claim that South Africa’s government racially discriminates against white...
The articles that I have written about von Schnurbein examine how she has been pursuing a pro-Israel agenda since she took up her post more than a decade ago and how she has weaponized anti-Semitism in order to smear and...
So far this week, Saudi Arabia has sold as many as 20 million barrels of crude oil in the spot market to be picked up from just outside the Strait of Hormuz, after the Kingdom was forced to shut down...
For more than five years, Myanmar’s military has treated the sky as its safest battlefield. Ground troops lost bases, towns and strategic roads to resistance forces, but aircraft could fly over those losses, bomb the other side and return to...
Saudi Arabia has intensified air strikes against Houthi positions in Yemen as the Iran backed group expands its territorial gains along the Red Sea coast, opening a new front in the wider Middle East war and adding pressure to already...
Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill look at several dimensions of the PRC’s approach to AI. First: The various reasons a push for an agreement with U.S. labs to “pace” AI development is unlikely to bear fruit and the...
South Korea is strengthening its economic engagement with Central Asia, placing critical minerals, energy and supply chain cooperation at the centre of its strategy to secure resources and create new opportunities for domestic companies. President Lee Jae Myung hosted the...
As American troops face renewed danger in the Middle East, with Iran striking U.S. positions across the region, President Donald Trump is busy contemplating something rather more personal: renaming the Strait of Hormuz the “Trump Strait.” Perhaps “The Trump Quagmire”...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame speaking to the youth during the Africa Food Systems Forum at Kigali Convention Centre. Credit: Farai Shawn Matiashe/IPS By Farai Shawn Matiashe KIGALI, Sep 16 2026 (IPS) Agriculture remains underfunded in Africa as governments struggle to deliver on decades-old...
Japan’s oil import bill surged by 58.7% on the year last month, with volumes rising by a much more modest 3.6%. This pushed the country’s total import bill 28% higher and extended its trade deficit for the fourth month in...
Indigenous Kakataibo patrol in the Yamino community forest. A new report titled Collective Power documents the deaths of people who stood against environmental destruction, land grabs, illegal logging, mining projects and other threats to their communities. Credit: Global Witness By Umar...
For all the warnings about an increasingly capable Chinese military, this may very well be an awkward moment for Beijing to have that military tested. General Secretary Xi Jinping has hollowed out much of the People’s Liberation Army’s senior command...
On 14 September 2026, with American diesel having crossed six dollars a gallon for the first time in history, President Trump settled the question of blame in a single sentence posted to social media: “The World’s Diesel price rise is...
String of female murder victims found near Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week The discovery of the bodies of seven women around Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week, has prompted an outpouring of fear, grief...
Tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz remains a fraction of pre-war levels, with four vessels traversing the waterway on Tuesday, down from seven the previous day, Reuters has reported, citing ship-tracking data. The data does not include tankers that...
TOKYO – After two years of near-vertical capital spending, euphoric earnings calls, and GPU shortages that became their own economic indicator, the mood toward AI has dramatically shifted. Hyperscalers, model makers and investors are now asking the same uncomfortable question:...
The cables linking Svalbard to mainland Norway were not cut this spring. Even so, an encounter nearby raised an awkward question about how they would be defended if they were. Reuters reported, citing two Western officials, that British, Norwegian and...
The conflict between Iran and the US appears to have reached a stalemate. The US Navy continues to prevent Iranian vessels and others from transiting to or from Iranian ports. Iran, meanwhile, threatens shipping moving in or out of the...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Strasbourg on Wednesday as Ottawa seeks to strengthen its economic and strategic ties with Europe amid escalating trade tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump. Carney will become the first foreign head of...
President Donald Trump’s proposal to give Americans $5,000 payments is raising questions about how the plan could affect U.S. monetary policy, particularly as Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh pushes for greater attention to the relationship between money supply and inflation....
Twenty-five years after 9/11, figures compiled by conflict monitor underline how Sahel region has become centre of Islamist terror Islamist extremist violence in Africa’s Sahel region is set to reach historic highs after a series of sweeping offensives by groups linked...
Sidi Haidara leads a community dialogue in Mopti, Mali, where families, young people and local leaders discuss girls' rights and ways to end female genital mutilation. Credit: UN Women/Dieneba Deme By UNFPA UNITED NATIONS, Sep 16 2026 (IPS) In Mali, an estimated nine...
The Hugging Face incident, in which hundreds of OpenAI agents broke out of their sandbox and launched a nation-state-level attack on another site, has dominated discourse within the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community since its discovery in July. Ajeya Cotra of...
China’s diesel fuel and gasoline inventories are declining, which may eventually lead to the imposition of export curbs, Bloomberg has reported, citing recent fuel inventory data. Gasoline inventories at state-owned energy majors were down by 2.9% last week to their...
When Emmanuel Macron stepped up at the Île Longue submarine base on 2 March 2026, he was not simply updating French defense doctrine. He was ending a thirty-four-year trajectory of unilateral nuclear drawdown, and, more consequentially, putting a name and...
Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Yemen). Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe By...
Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans The Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the enslavement and transatlantic trafficking of millions of African people, according...
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra ran the 100-meter sprint in a staggering 8.64 seconds, shattering Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s legendary human world record of 9.58 seconds. The internet laughed at the...
In one of our more important write-ups early this year, we discussed how AI is going to be our economics and AI is going to be our politics for years and decades ahead. The debate over controlling it is making that plain....
This summer, tensions in Kosovo have spiked even as a NATO-led peacekeeping mission began to withdraw from the country. In July, police detained 37 Serbs at a commemoration in Gazimestan, and days later searched worshippers at a monastery near Prizren. Later...
In the last two days, a pair of government reports confirmed what many outside analysts have claimed: the Iran war has been extraordinarily costly for the U.S. military and for the American public. A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis released Tuesday...
Spent an hour with Ali Borhani on FuturEarly discussing what to expect from the upcoming Xi Trump meeting. Ali Borhani is a geopolitical strategist, emerging markets geo-economic connoisseur, and the Managing Director of 3Sixty Strategic Advisors Ltd. , a London-based boutique...
As government watchdogs warn about dwindling U.S. stockpiles of major weapons systems, the Trump administration is moving ahead with billions of dollars in new arms sales to Saudi Arabia and Israel, adding further demand to U.S. weapons production lines. Earlier this...
President Donald Trump may have discovered a new opportunity to provoke a NATO ally. Last year, the White House created a brouhaha with Denmark (and other European countries) by insisting that Copenhagen sell Greenland to the United States. This time,...
The war in Iran that had to be over and won by the United States in about six weeks is now in its seventh month and the oil markets are starting to crack. Gone are most of the cushions the...
Jordanian Protests Nine weeks before the Houthis stunned the region by breaking out of their northern strongholds, Karl Miller told me it was coming. In a private note dated July 1, he reasoned that Mohammed bin Salman was running his familiar...
(Publisher’s note. The American AI doomsday debate is in full gear and dutifully chimed into by West European media. The most recent wave was kicked off by a September 6 blogpost by OpenAI chief scientist Jacub Pachocki, amplified on September 8 when Anthropic...
When a semi-anonymous social media user declared that the federal government had targeted her in a bizarre entrapment scheme, the paranoid claim snowballed into a more disturbing revelation: the Pentagon appears to be breaking the law by paying conservative influencers...
Chinese-made photovoltaic panels cost 12 cents a watt in 2026, down from $5-$6 at the turn of the millennium, and that price collapse is now powering rooftop solar installations from Pakistani cement plants to Philippine homes and Australian suburbs, according...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) tells Responsible Statecraft that he is initiating eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth because Congress has “exhausted every other remedy to make things right.” After a speech on the floor Tuesday, Massie said...
In this issue: 1. More weak August data 2. Advance work for Xi-Trump meeting 3. ICBC documents leak 4. New exit-entry rules go into effect The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade - Politics and Law - Foreign and Defense Affairs - Hong Kong - Tech...
About 1,200 AI agents inside one company’s internal evaluation found each other, organized, and attacked an unrelated third party. Nothing in the task specification asked for it. The consequences landed outside the organization that set the boundary—and that is what...
Back in late June, after the United States and Iran agreed to cease hostilities in the Persian Gulf for 60 days, oil prices took a dive. Two months later, Brent is trading at over $107 per barrel, and WTI is...
A new threat intelligence report from the AI company Anthropic has revealed that a Russian team scraped Ukrainian combat videos to train an autonomous “kamikaze” drone to choose its own targets and destroy them. Scraped footage is video content that...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continue to target US vessels and tankers violating the Strait of Hormuz blockade, as its advanced weapons program has aided its allies in Yemen to become the region’s second most feared ballistic missile power....
The artificial intelligence boom is driving a new wave of autonomous cyberattacks, posing a major and growing threat to critical infrastructure, including the energy grid. Ninety percent of state government chief intelligence officers recently reported that cyberattacks on critical services...
Before the end of this year, every resident of South Korea will have free and unmetered access to a general-purpose AI chatbot and a public service agent built on domestic models. The capacity to evaluate how those systems affect hiring,...
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