Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Dear Members of Congress, In truly deranged remarks to world leaders at the UN, Donald Trump declared that “I have a big decision to make,” whether to negotiate a deal with Iran or instead to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and drive Iran...
Look around you, and you’ll see rare earth elements at work. A phone vibrates because a magnet moves a weight. Its screen was polished with cerium powder. Its connection to the rest of the world crosses oceans on cables amplified...
Credit: Matt Palmer / Unsplash This guest post is authored by V. Ram Ramanathan , Durwood Zaelke , and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and is informed by a presentation that Ramanathan is set to give at the Vatican on September 26. By V. Ram...
Credit: United Nations By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) The world’s ongoing arms race is threatening to extend beyond planet earth—and spillover into outer space. The US has deployed weapons in space and will use them to defend American forces, Air...
As world leaders gather in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are meeting in Washington, creating a striking contrast between traditional multilateral diplomacy and direct great power engagement....
Crude oil prices took a dip today amid reports that there was willingness for peace in the Middle East on both sides of the conflict. The dip partially offset gains made earlier in the week, keeping oil benchmarks elevated. At...
As Trump chose the path of barbarism, threatening to annihilate the Islamic Republic and dismantling international institutions, Lula took the UN pulpit to defend another path: diplomacy, dialogue and civilisation, and questioned a foundational idea of International Relations. The main...
This article is co-published in partnership with The Intercept For the first time, the Pentagon budget topped $1 trillion and private contractors now receive more than half of all the tax dollars flowing to the Pentagon. Few have profited from this privatization...
“The war with Iran needs to end and end quickly.” These were the unexpected words spoken Monday by former congressman and current Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, who The Nation’s Jeet Heer has described as “not just an ardent supporter...
Few things better illustrate how charged the American debate over China has become than the reaction to Jennifer Kavanagh’s recent proposal for a radically different U.S. military posture in Asia. Kavanagh, a senior fellow at Defense Priorities, has argued that Washington...
On September 22, 2026, Russia’s Africa Corps fired a Ukraine-war-model Molniya kamikaze drone at al-Qaeda-linked fighters besieging its position near Dioura, in Mali’s Mopti region, the latest skirmish in a campaign that has already cost 13 Russian and Malian lives...
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When Xi Jinping’s plane touches down at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, he arrives to a reception built for maximum contrast with his last encounter with Donald Trump. This is Xi’s first state visit to Washington in eleven years, and...
By: Dharendra Wardhana and Danifansen Simanjuntak A couple in northern Laos walk on the dam of the Nam Ou 1 hydropower plant invested in by PowerChina. Photo from Xinhua Southeast Asia has become one of the most consequential arenas to witness the...
The Donald pulled no punches at the UN today. It was all hell and brimstone on the Iranian War file. Once again, and perhaps for the 15th time, he promised to “annihilate” a nation that arose originally upwards of 2,700...
The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York Times report, US commanders had approved their targets, American troops were loading bombs onto warplanes, and an attack...
Nearly a decade ago, the Canadian Oil Patch recorded a major asset sale and consolidation wave as oil majors exited the oil sands in favor of higher margins in U.S. shale oil as well as environmental concerns amid the ESG...
In this issue: 1. Xi arrives in DC 2. Propaganda ahead of Xi’s visit 3. PRC nuclear weapons 4. PLA Daily editorial on Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli 5. 2025 Outbound investment over $200 billion The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade - Politics and Law -...
The world is currently facing persistent value conflicts, with the diversity of civilizations under threat. Growing isolationism, a rise in protectionism, a downtrend of intercultural dialogue mechanism efforts from existing powers, and the inefficacy of world institutions to uphold the...
The White House on Wednesday denied that the Administration is considering a ban on U.S. diesel exports, clarifying comments from President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a day earlier that appeared to leave the door open to restrictions...
China just broke ground on a revolutionary new hybridized energy production and storage facility. The power plant will store excess energy in the form of molten salt, and then produce electricity during peak demand times through a supercritical carbon dioxide...
A wave of concern has suddenly swept through Western military circles over the possibility of Russian tanks breaking deep into Ukrainian defenses. The trigger was a real incident that Western observers have so far been reluctant to believe. That, however,...
European leaders are now fretting about Vladimir Putin in much the same way that everyone worries these days about artificial intelligence. Until recently, AI agents remained within the virtual spaces where they’d been developed. Rather than free range, they were confined...
Ship-to-ship transfers and pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, where available, have become the primary export route for most Middle Eastern oil. Oil producers in the region have demonstrated what some see as remarkable adaptability to the new circumstances. In...
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has once again failed to return to her own country, despite making three attempts within 24 hours and at least seven attempts over the past several months. Washington is not allowing Machado to return to...
There is often an uncomfortable unevenness in contemporary Muslim moral courage. Western Muslim leaders and organizations have shown admirable clarity in confronting the crimes of Empire and Zionism. The more difficult test comes when the same principles implicate governments, institutions...
The Strait of Hormuz crisis has turned roughly 20% of global LNG supply into something buyers now have to treat as interruptible. Nearly seven months after traffic through the strait collapsed, LNG exports from Qatar and the UAE remain severely...
Gaza /PNN/ Cancer patients in the Gaza Strip are facing mounting hardship as treatment interruptions, drug shortages and limited access to medical referrals accelerate the deterioration of their health, doctors and families say. The case of Basel, a patient whose condition...
The United States and 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries have agreed on joint sanctions against the region's largest criminal organizations. The list includes Brazil's two most powerful gangs — Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV). But...
On Monday night, the Trump administration launched what appears to be a nascent cult-of-personality state media channel: “Trump TV: The Essentials” consists of a stream of Donald Trump ’s speeches and administration official appearances, available on the White House’s YouTube...
Uzbekistan is intent on establishing logistics lily pads on the shores of the Caspian and Black Seas to advance Tashkent’s Middle Corridor trade agenda. A statement published by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s office on September 21 revealed that Uzbek and Georgian...
The European Union has removed prominent Russian businessmen Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from its sanctions list. Personal sanctions against both men were imposed in 2022. They included asset freezes and a ban on entering the European Union. France traded Usmanov...
In 2021, the US supplied around 5% of all Europe’s gas. That figure is now 26% and rising. Nate Bear is a journalist, a pr/comms man for corporates, money funds, for non-profits, for climate orgs, for wildlife groups Cross-posted from Nate Bear’s...
In 2021, Sungmin Cho wrote, “South Korea’s Taiwan Conundrum,” where he argued Seoul’s complex strategic position makes engagement on questions of involvement over a Taiwan contingency complicated. Five years later, we asked him to revisit his arguments.Image: U.S. Navy (Photo...
Imperial Oil chief executive John Whelan has stated his opposition to Alberta separatism, making this the first major energy company in the province to take a public position on the movement, Financial Post reported, citing Bloomberg. "As a national company,...
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Zohran Mamdani: “DoorDash had underpaid more than 260K delivery workers across New York City. Today, after years of corporate greed and impunity, we are holding DoorDash to account” Ben Wray is the Coordinator and Researcher at the Gig Economy Project Cross-posted from...
By Julie Rogers, Executive Director, Electronic System Design Alliance 2026 is “Bridging Design and Manufacturing with AI” during a day-long session Tuesday, October 13, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, North Hall, Lower Level, Room 20. The...
Is the era of nuclear weapons coming to an end? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” [Table] | [/Table] Nuclear weapons have been much talked about recently. The interest comes in waves, often sparked off by individual incidents in the war in...
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has publicly opposed calls for a ban on US diesel exports, arguing on Wednesday that the measure would backfire by increasing gasoline and jet fuel prices. "The blunt tool of banning diesel exports definitely doesn't work," Wright...
Kenya breaks ground September 30 on the Dangote-backed East Africa Oil Refinery in Lamu, a project priced at $17 billion by Kenyan officials and $20 billion by Aliko Dangote himself, and designed to process 700,000 barrels of crude oil a...
Convening energy ministers, investors, financiers, and experts for the next African Energy Week (AEW), on October 12–16, in Cape Town, South Africa, aims at taking one more step with Africa’s energy ambitions that could translate into investment, production, infrastructure, and...
Andy Burnham’s decision to send a Royal Air Force plane to Saudi Arabia for “defensive” aerial refuelling in the kingdom’s war against the Houthis has a familiar ring to it. His words echo those of his predecessor. Keir Starmer provided the...
In a huge victory for the Palestine solidarity movement and the mass civil, political and legal campaign against Israel Bonds, the Development Corporation for Israel (DCI) has been unable to get authorisation to sell its bonds in the EU ....
Glencore committed $500 million to VaultCo, the Export-Import Bank public-private partnership sourcing critical minerals for a US government stockpile, Reuters reported Wednesday. The commitment makes Glencore the fourth supplier named to Project Vault, joining Hartree Partners, Mercuria Americas and Traxys...
Every war produces its own vocabulary of loss — death tolls, displacement figures, damage assessments. But one number cuts across every current conflict and rarely makes the headline: the count of children who go to sleep each night with no...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth keeps popping up on the campaign trail, fueling speculation he may run for president in 2028. His travel last month to Iowa, “a presidential campaign proving ground, fits that pattern,” The Washington Post reported , citing...
One Year Later — September 2026 When this piece first ran a year ago, VSORA was the quiet outsider, a company with a bold architecture and no Silicon Valley address. One year on, the thesis has held up better than even...
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