Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
A landmark oil agreement between Washington and Caracas threatens to cut Chinese refiners off from a cherished source of discounted crude, handing the United States greater sway over global oil prices. US President Donald Trump announced on August 28 that...
In this issue: - The disaster in Nepal and Tibet - Xi at the SCO - State Council Executive meeting - Measures to expand and upgrade consumer goods consumption - Revised National Defense Mobilization Law - Signals for PRC-US AI dialogue - Cracking down excessive competition in...
Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, and its heavy crude is particularly well suited to the sophisticated refineries lining the U.S. Gulf Coast. More Venezuelan oil should help U.S. refiners, but that doesn’t translate directly into...
US President Donald Trump published a string of unhinged posts to his social media platform overnight Sunday and into Monday morning, including an artificial intelligence-generated video attempting to depict American forces bombing Kharg Island – Iran’s primary oil export terminal. The post, which drew mockery from...
SANGKLABURI – Nearly 500 kilometers away from Bangkok, Sangklaburi is a small-town in Kanchanaburi province, the western part of Thailand. It is surrounded by nature and wrapped in picturesque mountainsides. The province is bordered between Thailand and Myanmar. It is...
Intel’s next-generation 14A manufacturing process is showing unusually strong early progress, with defect density falling faster than the company expected. The improvement gives Intel a technical boost as it attempts to restore confidence in its manufacturing operation, win foundry customers...
The severe disruption of oil and gas flows out of the Persian Gulf resulting from the war between the U.S. and Israel and Iran, has saddled energy-importing nations with soaring bills, supply uncertainty, and a murky outlook. However, there has...
The renewed trade war between the United States and Canada adds even more uncertainty to the complex steel and aluminum supply chains critical for heavy manufacturing and North America’s automotive industry. Last week’s breakdown in trade talks led to a...
Norway is supposedly breaking with Brussels. Energy Minister Terje Aasland says the country will continue exploring for oil and gas in the Barents Sea despite European Union support for an Arctic drilling moratorium. He has also dismissed the old ambition...
Islam Times - Behind the mask and voice that people had come to know for years, Hudhaifa Al-Kahlout, known as “Abu Obaida,” lived away from the spotlight and the personal details that typically shape the public image of prominent figures....
Islam Times - In its media messaging regarding the northern front, the “Israeli” occupation forces [IOF] seek to portray themsleves as acting under the banner of humanitarianism, repeatedly promoting the narrative that their military aggression are focused solely on targets...
Chevron, India’s ONGC, GE Vernova, Eni and GeoPark are preparing to sign final energy agreements in Venezuela, bringing new foreign investment into the country’s oilfields and power infrastructure, Reuters reported Monday, citing five sources close to the preparations. Venezuela has...
Why would a victor today need to loot cities, haul away machinery and demand gold when, in the 21st century, it is possible to obtain oil fields for a hundred years, a transport corridor for nearly a century, and a...
Two days after President Trump called his new Venezuela agreement “the biggest oil deal in world history,” the story has already moved past the barrels themselves. A Pentagon spokesman contradicted the reported ownership structure. The company positioned to run the...
Trump wants to avoid a major flare-up before the mid-terms, but Iran may calculate that now is the time hit back hard. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Cross-posted from Responsible Statecraft Despite...
Ukraine is already facing down the barrel of demographic doom – drafting childless women into the Ukrainian army would only make it worse. Branko Marcetic is a staff writer with Jacobin magazine and the author of Yesterday’s Man: the Case Against...
Scandalous that a data sharing agreement between the EU and Israel is even a topic for discussion in Brussels – will these people ever learn? Raja Natour is a seasoned journalist and Middle East specialist with extensive experience covering Israel, Palestine,...
India’s crude imports fell in August, and Russia’s share declined with them, exposing a supply problem that seasonal refinery patterns alone cannot explain. The usual maintenance period at Indian plants comes toward the end of the monsoon, when domestic diesel...
The world’s largest oilfield services company is spending $3.4 billion to expand into the infrastructure behind the AI power boom. SLB said Monday it will acquire German cooling equipment maker Kelvion, more than doubling the revenue opportunity per gigawatt of...
On Friday, the Tampa City Council approved a deal to construct a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. The public will be on the hook for nearly a billion dollars in development, an open-ended commitment to structural maintenance on...
Agentic AI was everywhere at DAC 2026. Various focus areas were presented that covered many parts of the chip design flow. Verification and debug were a popular topic since so much time is spent there. Analog design is another pressure...
When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in a political earthquake on 8 December 2024, it was far more than a mere political transition that occurred. The amount of time Bashar al Assad was in place Israel was up against a Syrian...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 New in The Lever : Which corporate Democrat is cosplaying as progressive ? 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - New data from the Low-Wage 100. - Which state is keeping...
The United States’ recent confrontation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) raises a question about international law and geopolitics that needs urgent attention. Washington has historically been one of the main architects of the principles behind international criminal justice, from...
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...
It may sound strange, but Stockholm and Helsinki's decision to establish joint mechanisms to defend against drone attacks leads to a rather simple conclusion. And who is flying into Finland these days, if not Ukrainian drones? So are Sweden and...
European benchmark natural gas prices jumped by 5% in early morning trade on Monday as the re-escalation of hostilities between the United States and Iran intensified concerns about LNG supply from the Middle East. The benchmark price at the Dutch...
This story was originally published by ProPublica . In mid-July testimony before Congress, Russell Vought boasted that, as the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he’d refashioned the agency’s approach to pursuing banks and other financial companies accused of...
In view of the recent debate between Thailand and the United Nations regarding the conclusions drawn by UN Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews after the Cambodia–Thailand border crisis, it becomes clear that the current situation presents much more than just another...
Six months after US and Israeli air strikes against Iran launched a conflict that has shaken energy markets and disrupted global shipping, there is still no clear end to the confrontation. While Iran's military capabilities have suffered major damage, it...
In the summer of 2024 , Emilie and Justin Solomon found themselves on a top-secret mission in Greece. Related Pricey IVF Test May Be Selling False Hope Their family and friends thought the adventure-loving couple was on another jet-setting vacation, but they were...
Photo by Alisa Anton on Unsplash I’m not a Luddite. I like technology just fine. I can use AI as a tool and then write pieces on the internet about why we should be careful about AI. I see no conflict...
In a few short years , “Abolish ICE” has gone from a position considered far too radical to receiving serious consideration from the Democratic National Committee . Recent articles in the Atlantic, Bloomberg and USA Today argue that abolishing ICE will result in worse outcomes for...
Supply issues have been tightening the Chinese coking coal market for months, pushing the price of the key steelmaking raw material a record 46% in August alone, the biggest surge on record. Coking coal futures on China’s Dalian exchange were...
There is always a winner in any major global oil crisis. In 1973/74, it was Saudi Arabia and its OPEC brothers who shifted the balance of power in the market away from the previous arrangement dominated by the West’s ‘Seven...
Current US concerns revolve around the potential for China to dominate the infrastructure and sovereign data of emerging nations in Africa and the Middle East through artificial intelligence technologies. This conflict has manifested itself directly in Egypt, which has become...
Iran on Monday dismissed as “laughable” a Truth Social AI-generated post by U.S. President Donald Trump that the key Iranian oil export hub of Kharg Island is “being blown to smithereens”, as tensions in the Middle East boiled up again...
Oil prices increased due to rising tensions involving Iran, sparked by a U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim regarding Kharg Island oil hub, which an Iranian official dismissed as “laughable.” There has been no evidence of an attack on Kharg Island,...
Chancellor John Healey has been presented with a plan to tax oil firms and banks further as bosses in the sectors have posted huge profits, according to reports. Healey may look to tax businesses at this year’s Budget in order...
BRICS — the growing transcontinental coalition of major Global South states such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, and South Africa, and the “Global East” of China and Russia — is not the anti–American alliance Washington fears. It is a reformist, not...
The signing on 7 August of the so-called Mecca Pact by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan again raises the question of whether the Gulf monarchies might seek to reduce their security dependence on the United States. The Gulf monarchies’ experience...
- Cape Town stunt sparks major debate over safety risks - Airlink insists flyby conducted according to regulations A pre-game stunt involving two passenger jets flying dramatically low over a stadium in South Africa drew huge cheers from the estimated crowd of...
Asia’s diesel exports to Africa are surging to nearly five-year highs, as Middle East’s sales to Africa crashed to nine-year lows amid threats to shipping and refinery outages, a Reuters analysis of ship-tracking data and volumes showed on Monday. The...
Ukraine is already suffering a severe demographic crisis as a result of the decision to eschew peace talks and pursue military victory instead — a decision backed emphatically by U.S. and European leaders earlier in the war. The ensuing combination of...
For nearly three years, foreign ministries in Washington, London, and Brussels have debated arms embargoes on Israel in committee rooms, largely without result. Meanwhile, a much less formal network of ordinary people has been trying to accomplish the same goal...
Scientists say system to treat contaminated wastewater offers a model for ensuring food security in a fast-warming climate All it took to turn the murky, heavily polluted waters of South Africa’s Stiebeuel River into a resource clean enough for irrigating a...
Frontier models (Claude, etc.) are very powerful but becoming expensive for high token counts. Methods to exploit a mix of models, including local open-weight models, are attracting attention. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former...
Guidance says states must implement ‘comprehensive measures’ to address legacy of racial discrimination A UN committee has said countries are legally obliged to consider reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and take other measures to address the enduring legacy of racial...
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