Taiwan

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

NEW YORK – US Treasury yields are pressing against their highest levels since 2007, and Asia’s policymakers know what that usually means: turbulence ahead. This week’s $42 billion auction of 10-year notes cleared at 4.683%, the richest yield since the...

Finance, Block 2, Currencies

Credit: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 2026 (IPS) Pakistan, one of few South Asian countries to oscillate between democratic governments and authoritarian regimes, is cracking down on journalists, including foreign correspondents covering the political situation in...

Democracy, Featured, Global

Without a credible political solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Gaza will continue to oscillate between fragile ceasefires and devastating wars, leaving lasting peace out of reach. The Illusion of a Gaza Breakthrough Declaring last week’s announcements on Gaza a ‘breakthrough’...

Israel, Middle East, Palestine

In the early months following Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, Latin American leaders emerged as some of the world’s sharpest critics of the military campaign. Then-Colombian President Gustavo Petro was among the first world leaders to call Israel’s actions a “genocide.”...

Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina

On Washington’s 16th Street, overlooking Meridian Hill Park, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is transforming the former French Embassy into a permanent base for its growing influence operation in Washington. The party bought the Beaux-Arts mansion for roughly...

Recep-tayyip-erdogan, Israel, F-35

Nvidia’s newly unveiled plan to mobilize more than US$500 billion in third-party financing for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is expected to deepen its global dominance and reduce the competitiveness of Chinese chips in global markets. The company said on...

Technology, AI Factories, Artificial Intelligence

By: Khanh Vu Duc Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm’s visit to Australia and New Zealand may look like routine diplomacy. It is better understood as a marker of Hanoi’s evolving strategy in a more contested Indo-Pacific. Vietnam is not abandoning...

News

Eighteen Years, Zero Texts On July 28, the UN General Assembly did what it has done every year since the effort began: it rolled Security Council reform talks into another session without resolving anything, this time pushing the process into...

Diplomacy, African Union, Analysis

“The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness… They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” ~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)...

Uncategorized

Amid geopolitical changes, Red Sea security has attained new developments, creating heightened maritime tensions, while the Gulf States race to control the region. By a simple geographical definition, the Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying...

Middle East & Africa, Africa, Economics

For years, U.S. President Donald Trump has openly displayed his disdain for the clean energy and electric vehicle sectors. In the early days of his second term, Trump stalled funding for EV charging infrastructure while pushing fossil fuels. In July...

News

U.S. demand for electricity is expected to hit an all-time high both this year and next, driven by the data center buildout of Big Tech. This is the latest in a series of record-demand projections by the Energy Information Administration....

News

LISTEN NOW: Oliver Larkin spent a decade battling the Democratic Party’s campaign machine as an organizer for candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Now, in Florida’s Aug. 18 primary, he’s a democratic socialist going up against Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) —...

Lever Time

It’s been nearly 50 years since director Robb Moss first documented his month-long trip through the Grand Canyon with five friends. That footage became the 1978 documentary “Riverdogs” and served as the jumping off point for its appropriately titled 2003...

Arts & Culture, Film, Opinion

A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have...

Bronco AI, EDA, bronco ai

China has driven the world’s solar energy deployment, adding capacity at such a blistering rate that the nation’s existing and planned wind and solar generation nearly doubles the rest of the world put together. However, China’s deployment of supportive infrastructure...

News

Islam Times - The United States is on track to withdraw its remaining forces from Iraq by September 30, according to US and Iraqi officials cited by the Associated Press, potentially marking the final stage of Washington's military intervention that...

Iraq

Oil supply disruptions, high fuel prices and faster battery innovation could give electric vehicle adoption a fresh push, with consequences for oil demand, power grids and metals markets, Wood Mackenzie said Thursday. Wars affecting oil-producing Russia and Iran have exposed...

News

A strong commercial space industry is an important partner for the U.S. government, as it contributes to building more robust space and defense capabilities and facilitates innovation more broadly. As competition between the United States and China heats up, both...

In Brief, Members

Amid a thicket of hopeful rhetoric surrounding the construction of a trans-Afghan pipeline that would carry natural gas from Turkmenistan to South Asia, tangible signs of progress are hard to find. The pipeline, known as TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India), has been on...

News

At #DAC2026 I met with Vamshi Kothur at Tuple Technologies to see how their cloud infrastructure products help IC design teams get their chip designs to market more quickly without the overhead of big IT and CAD teams. Tuple was...

Events, Semiconductor Services, Tuple Technologies

Brent crude futures held near recent highs of $90 a barrel before fading to around $87 early Thursday morning, as traders awaited progress toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Stalled US-Iran negotiations and tightening global fuel supplies continued to support prices and concern...

News

The influence of fear on the behaviour of states. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine I’ve been wondering whether there’s anything useful to say at the moment about the wider aspects of the...

Geopolitics, Article, Aurelien

Porsche is reportedly preparing to phase out production of its flagship Taycan electric sports car by 2030, marking a major setback for the German automaker’s once-aggressive electrification strategy. Germany’s WirtschaftsWoche reported Thursday that Porsche management and its works council have...

News

This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : Font sizes might screw over your next vacation. 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - How Democrats’ “center” is hunting down socialists. - The human costs...

Lever Daily

Progressives experienced a split in two closely watched Democratic primaries Tuesday, as voters in Minnesota and Wisconsin produced sharply different results in contests that represented competing visions for the party’s future. In Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan decisively won the Democratic U.S....

Activism, News, Politics

Photo by Maria Lysenko on Unsplash Every time Democrats take power, they immediately act like this is the beginning of a thousand years of Democratic rule. It seems they can see no universe in which the pendulum might swing away from...

News

Ukraine struck another major Russian refinery Thursday, hitting Gazprom's Neftekhim Salavat complex in the Urals as Kyiv intensified attacks that have already forced Moscow to curb fuel exports and even import gasoline. The attack caused a fire at the 200,000-barrel-per-day...

News

This article was originally published at Barn Raiser Media . This Saturday , at their summer meeting in Austin, Texas, members of the Democratic National Committee will likely get a chance to vote on whether the party should ban the use...

Activism, Courts & Law, News

CÚCUTA, Colombia — Between 1964 and the signing of the Havana Accords in 2016, fighting among the Colombian military, right-wing paramilitaries and left-wing guerrillas killed more than 450,000 people. That war, which involved relatively cohesive ideological sides, is beginning again,...

Activism, Americas, Column

For months now, traders and market analysts have had to weigh two opposing scenarios for oil prices—the ongoing war and severely disrupted oil flows at the Strait of Hormuz and hopes that a U.S.-Iran deal would free up millions of...

News

Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack. This week’s Q&A is tonight at 7:00 p.m....

News

On 31 July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that it had disrupted a Cambodia-based criminal operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and law-enforcement impersonation scams. The suspected network created false identities, translated conversations, generated images of forged documents, and adapted its messages...

Economy, Artificial Intelligence, ASEAN

Romania on Thursday began shutting down its only remaining operating nuclear reactor as record-low water levels on the Danube have forced nuclear power shutdowns in central and eastern Europe in recent weeks. Nuclearelectrica has launched the process to disconnect the...

News

Once Africa’s most revered pop brotherhood, the dynamic duo P-Square has now been reduced to a music-business case study. Peter Okoye’s fresh video series revived allegations over royalties, catalogue access and financial records, while older brother and former manager Jude Okoye...

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