Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
The Israeli war on Gaza and the US-Israeli aggression against Iran have radically altered the situation in the Middle East. One of the most significant consequences of the current conflict is the objective weakening of Israel’s position on the world...
The Caspian Sea forms a strategically vital direct supply route between Russia and Iran (Source: BBC) On Friday, even as the US President Donald Trump was announcing the end of the latest round of the conflict with Iran, Pentagon unobtrusively...
The US military’s fighter fleet is projected to become stealthier but less available, widening the gap between technological sophistication and the combat mass needed for a prolonged war. This month, the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report showing...
Former President Juan Orlando Hernández, the convicted drug trafficker pardoned by President Donald Trump last December, flew triumphantly home to Honduras on Sunday in full, ambitious glory. He stepped off a private plane wearing a crisp white shirt, looking clean...
Encouraged by Ukraine’s sustained advances in drone warfare, Western media is abuzz with the idea that Kyiv just might be able to defeat Russia after more than four years of bitter fighting. In May, TIME hailed Ukraine’s drone industry as giving...
Faced with another summer of punishing energy costs, EU governments are once again reaching for the same short-term fixes—excise cuts, tax credits, and price caps—that have failed to deliver a lasting solution in previous crises. Behind the scramble, a more...
Vietnamese banks started deleting more than 86 million bank accounts last September. Of the roughly 200 million accounts on the country’s books, only 113 million personal accounts and some 711,000 organizational ones survived the biometric verification requirements introduced by the...
Oil prices spiked in early Asian trade on Wednesday, erasing a significant portion of Tuesday's selloff on the back of renewed hostilities in the Middle East and a bullish U.S. inventory report from the API. At the time of writing,...
Israel’s right-wing government is intensifying its half-century-long campaign to take over the West Bank fully by unleashing bands of settler militias to harass Palestinian residents, destroy their homes and livelihoods and restrict their movement throughout the occupied territory. The aim...
By: John Elliott Behind the emotional scenes and confrontations between brutal police and peaceful young demonstrators in Delhi that have gripped international attention in recent weeks, lies India’s unrealized “demographic dividend” which was expected to boost the country’s economy with expertise...
On June 21, 2026, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense announced that its armed forces would launch a five-day, four-night “Immediate Combat Readiness Exercise” from June 22 to June 26, intended to strengthen the ROC Armed Forces’ immediate response capabilities under...
It is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are attempting an experiment that may not please everyone. With fewer eyes in the peak holiday period, and a lesser appetite for the presumed permabull piece in these bearish weeks, we...
Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship between both countries. The first incident occurred on July 8 when US Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and his...
Amidst scorching temperatures and raging wildfires on the European continent, tropical storms and flash floods in the US, and severe drought in sub-Saharan Africa, high-level negotiators and state representatives gathered for a high-level retreat summit in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan on July...
Just recently, in a span of about six weeks, one impressive company was selected by the U.S. Army to build and operate rare earth processing facilities on an American military base…the first time the Army has ever done this. That...
In this issue: - Xi meets Slovak President - “Excess capacity” or “Overcapacity”? - CXMT IPO the day after - Xinhua’s mid-year review of the Chinese economy - Li Qiang commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake - National Conference on Overseas Chinese Affairs Work -...
Oil price movements since the start of March this year have become the topic of dozens of discussions. Many have been puzzled by futures prices and why they haven’t gone through the roof given the severe disruption in Middle Eastern...
Modern power grids require a constant, real-time balance between supply and consumption. Unfortunately, the integration of wind and solar energy makes power grids unstable due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy generation. To prevent localized grid blackouts or harmful...
Simon Davidmann is a renowned EDA industry pioneer and serial technology entrepreneur with more than 40 years of experience in simulation and verification. After Synopsys acquired Imperas, which he founded in 2005, he was Synopsys Vice President responsible for Processor...
Oil prices have just come off a fresh two-month high as the crude oil market has tumbled this week amid signals of de-escalation in the U.S.-Iran conflict. Despite the slump in crude prices and the extreme volatility in the past...
TUBAS, West Bank — The Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) said Israeli authorities have advanced new phases of a project known as the “Crimson Line” in the Jordan Valley by issuing six additional military orders aimed at expanding control over Palestinian land...
Solar power is far and away the cheapest form of new energy to install in nearly every context around the world. Even in the United States, where the cost of solar additions has jumped up 18 percent since Trump’s tariffs...
OPEC+ is preparing to approve one more production increase for September and then put the monthly quota parade on hold through the end of the year. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan, and Oman are expected to raise their...
Using private finance to build public infrastructure is short-sighted and almost always ends up costing the public purse more in the long run. Maike Schmidt is an assistant researcher at the New Economics Foundation and is based in Brussels. Her work...
Author of a new book titled ‘Capitalism and the Media’. Des Freeman is a professor of media and communications at Goldsmiths, London. Cross-posted from Counterfire Could you tell us a little about yourself and your background? I’m currently a Professor at Goldsmiths University, but...
One small town in the West Bank refused to accept quiet annihilation by the Zionist colonialists and fought back, showing Palestinian resistance is still alive. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author...
Islam Times - The spokesperson for Iran's Central Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters warned US President Donald Trump of serious consequences if Washington uses Iran's frozen assets to compensate for shipping-related losses, declaring that vessels linked to supporting countries and companies would...
Saudi Aramco shut its 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery on July 27 after a Houthi attack damaged the facility, according to an IIR note seen by Reuters. IIR said the strike damaged the refinery’s Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle complex and tank farm....
As Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in Washington, much indicates that he is no longer merely trying to draw greater American support into its war against Russia. Increasingly, it appears to be pursuing something far more consequential: merging the Ukraine war...
On July 13, at Damascus’s Dama Rose Hotel, Syria’s economy minister, Nidal al-Shaar, stood before executives from Chevron, Visa, Citibank, EY and a dozen other American firms and called it “a new chapter.” Two days earlier, President Trump had announced...
Water disputes can directly drive conflict, but more often, water scarcity acts as a catalyst — one that, combined with other pressures, raises the risk of conflict. This is nothing new; water has shaped human conflict for millennia. What’s changed...
Quadric has extended its Series C financing to $46 million through a second close led by the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector investment arm of the World Bank Group. The transaction raises Quadric’s total capital secured to approximately $90 million...
Israel has approved the future deployment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza, a significant step in implementing the US-backed peace plan. The planned multinational force is expected to support humanitarian efforts, stabilization, and a transition toward new Palestinian...
A public dispute at the United Nations Security Council has unexpectedly brought together countries with sharply opposing geopolitical interests while raising new questions about the future of relations between Paris and Washington. During a Security Council meeting, U. S. diplomats walked...
When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Manila in mid-July for regional diplomatic talks, the trip was framed as a direct sign of American commitment to Pacific security. Before the week was out, however, a Chinese coast guard...
Investment in defence tech start-ups has reached a record high this year as the world’s biggest arms companies step up spending on new military technology. New figures from Dealroom show defence contractors including BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus have...
For generations , the United States has been a global advocate for freedom, democracy and the rule of law. Today, however, the world is calling on the United States to uphold those same principles at home. Last month, the International Trade...
The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Over his decades as Iran’s religious and government leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had consistently rejected nuclear weapons. Khamenei ruled that these ridiculously violent explosives, with their promise of...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Washington with a bang Tuesday, just days after Ukraine carried out a missile strike against an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea. The attack appears to be part of Zelensky’s effort to win over...
When I was in high school, we were told that we needed to go to college. If we didn’t, we’d miss out on significant lifetime earnings. It didn’t matter what we majored in, you see, just that we went. Tilting At...
The European Union could save a lot on LNG imports by 2030 if it achieves its heat pump, solar, and wind installation targets…so much so that the bloc could save twice the gas it imports from Qatar, the Institute for...
This story was originally published by Sentient . For years , Bayer and the biotech giant it purchased, Monsanto, have faced allegations that glyphosate , the active ingredient in its popular herbicide Roundup, causes cancer. The saga has resulted in over...
Trump's latest comments cooled oil prices, but talks over ending the Strait of Hormuz blockade could prove far more consequential. Hedge Funds Pile Back into Oil as Chokepoint Risks Return - The signing of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding triggered...
Reliance on banking apps and e-wallets has surged in recent weeks in Gaza, despite the strip’s lack of the infrastructure needed to support such a shift. While vendors see digital transfers as a solution to Gaza’s cash shortage crisis, unreliable internet...
The spike in oil prices and slowing private investments have been weighing on India’s economic growth, which is now seen at 6.6% in the fiscal year to March 2027, a full percentage-point drop from the 7.7% GDP growth in the...
Modern conflicts are not just waged by state sponsored armed forces. In the last two decades there has been a rapid growth in the international recruitment of Private Military Companies (PMCs), used for everything from protecting top-level diplomats from harm...
Arteris has expanded its partnership with Arm to deploy Cycuity Radix hardware security assurance technology across additional next-generation Arm central processing unit (CPU) programs. The expansion follows five years of collaboration and successful use of Cycuity Radix on select Arm...
Amid renewed escalation between the United States and Iran, an unusually visible dispute has emerged within the U.S. government over the aims and limits of the confrontation. Recent remarks by Vice President J.D. Vance moved that divide from the margins...
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