Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Today’s top items: 1. Stock market rescue progress - The government intervention to prop up stock prices worked Tuesday. The Shanghai Composite closed up 1.8% at 3,864.37, the Shenzhen Component up 4.8% at 14,264.29, while the ChiNext and STAR Market indexes...
Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su It Didn’t Turn Out the Way They Said It Would They had promised it would be over soon. They had promised there would be an epoch-making victory, defeating the “Kremlin...
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Ece Temelkuran in “Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century” draws on her exile from Turkey to prepare us for a future we do not want but will be forced to endure. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist...
The protest against Jared Kushner’s property developments is part of a broader anti-corruption movement spreading across the Balkans. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy and a contributor to...
Summers in Spain now see just about the whole country go up in flames, as fires rip through dry and unmanaged rural land like a knife through hot butter. Read the article HERE . Picture by José Ibañez The post Reuters – Spain’s...
Emmanuel Macron is playing silly games with France’s nuclear arsenal, presumably in an attempt to keep Russia guessing. But when you are dealing with nukes, uncertainty and unpredictability is the worst scenario possible. Pavel Devyatkin is a Non-Resident Fellow at the...
Instead of waiting for the US to agree to the demand, Iran has launched targeted attacks during the past two weeks on key US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. This has produced a...
Modern warfare, marked by the overwhelming dominance of drones in the skies, is forcing militaries around the world to search for effective ways to protect critical facilities. This challenge extends far beyond Russia's confrontation with the missile-and-drone capabilities of NATO...
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, elected in 2024 with nearly 60 percent of the vote, has continued many of her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policies while placing emphasis on clean energy, public-private investment, and aggressive mass digitalization. Her flagship...
As architects push toward advanced nodes and increasingly demanding workloads, modern silicon design has entered an era of unprecedented complexity. A single design respin can cost millions of dollars and delay market entry. Against this backdrop, designs must be balanced...
Israel’s largest arms firms angrily refused to answer questions from independent media at an arms fair in England on Monday. They had been invited to the Farnborough International Airshow despite being required by French authorities to cover their stands in black...
A ROUTE TO A PEACE PRIZE [A GUEST ARTICLE BY RYAN L. DUDLEY] JULY 21, 2026 According to rumors, President Trump is hoping to receive a Peace Prize. Unfortunately, his actions are counter-productive. He is bogged down in both the Ukraine War...
This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. For more rural reporting and small-town stories visit dailyyonder.com . When Meredith Dean started the first Community Works chapters, she saw people reengaging in politics. “We were seeing more and more volunteers coming...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . When the Strait of Hormuz first closed at the start of the 2026 Iran war , the world braced for the “ largest energy crisis...
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash I get that I and the rabid left will never see eye-to-eye on gender issues. It’s not that I’m interested in legislating how people live, even if I vehemently disagree with the so-called logic behind...
On May 21, after a five-and-a-half week trial in Southampton Crown Court , England, three teenage boys walked out with 10 rape convictions between them , and went home. It began in November 2024 , when a 15-year-old girl walked to...
Iran has intensified drone and missile attacks on Kurdish Iranian opposition groups and energy infrastructure in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq amid renewed tensions with the United States. Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi is seeking to balance...
The release of China’s first-half economic data for 2026 has triggered familiar skepticism across Western media . As the second-quarter GDP growth moderated to 4.3 percent—bringing the first-half expansion to 4.7 percent—mainstream headlines were quick to double down on anxieties...
By Russell CONTRERAS, Delano MASSEY Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The semiquincentennial is becoming a proxy battle over patriotism, belonging and whether the country’s founding ideals should be celebrated as settled history or unfinished work. The...
AI-powered platform identified four critical SoC bugs and helped prevent up to two weeks of potential development delays Semiconductor verification is increasingly constrained not by simulation capacity, but by the engineering effort required to understand why a simulation failed. Modern ASIC...
By: Khanh Vu Duc Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Manila this week— attending the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and the ASEAN Regional Forum — highlights a crucial geopolitical reality: while the Taiwan Strait...
By Lauren PEARLE Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In a deeply divided country, one issue is cutting through the noise: Americans increasingly agree that the affordability crisis is real and that it could get worse. A new...
Global Nobel Laureates at the Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War held last week in Rome. Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri/INPS Japan. By Ariel F. Dumont BORGO LAUDATO SI’, Italy, Jul 21 2026 (IPS) “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” By...
The childish rivalry with Argentines, inflamed by the media, reveals moral weaknesses within Brazilian society. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Almost every people possesses what Carl Schmitt called the fundamental distinction between friend and enemy....
Hamas announced this month it would dissolve its government in Gaza to transfer control to a US-backed Palestinian committee. This was one of the mandates of the US-brokered peace deal between Israel and Hamas last year. While this means Hamas...
RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine / PNN / Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank accelerated at an unprecedented pace during the first half of 2026, with Israeli authorities advancing 162 settlement plans targeting more than 22,650 dunums (22.65 square kilometers) of...
RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine / PNN / Dr. Ramzi Khouri, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine, warned Monday that Israel's accelerating settlement expansion across the occupied...
When Donald Trump returned to the White House, he promised to avoid another Middle Eastern “forever war.” After the costly experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan, that pledge resonated with an American public weary of prolonged military intervention. For a brief...
RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine / PNN/ The Israeli Prison Service has increasingly used rubber-coated bullets against Palestinian political prisoners in recent months, marking what the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) described Monday as a dangerous escalation in the treatment of detainees inside Israeli...
Even superpowers depend on global supply chains. The real prize? Setting the rules others follow. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A structural and widespread phenomenon In contemporary strategic discourse, the term “technological sovereignty” has, over the...
Global hunger declined for the third year in a row in 2025 but experts call for action to bring down costs of fruit, vegetables and dairy as report shows 2.69bn people can’t afford to eat well One in three people cannot...
Israel extended the area under its control along Gaza’s eastern edge earlier this week, carrying out military operations in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah that forced people into displacement, eyewitnesses in both cities told Mada Masr. The two governorates lie adjacent...
Bethlehem / PNN/ The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has launched a new study titled "Algorithms of Violence: Analysis of Behaviors, Representations, and Implications of Organized Crime on TikTok among Palestinian Society in Israel." The study examines the...
The US Navy’s delayed effort to equip its troubled Zumwalt-class destroyers with hypersonic missiles is testing whether the ships can finally gain a credible combat role without repeating their history of shifting missions, immature technologies and mounting costs. This month,...
When Chinese scholars recently argued that Batanes was a natural extension of Taiwan — and therefore part of China’s territorial claim — they demonstrated how indigenous history and cultural ties can become entangled in contemporary geopolitical competition. Although the argument...
Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill focus on the arrival of Moonshot's Kimi K3 model and the "DeepSeek 2.0 concerns" among investors and policymakers. Topics include: The incoherent U.S. approach to the open source AI ecosystem, levers the U.S....
The EU – of governments that promise one thing and do another – gave the Ukrainian people its poison. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Introduction: From “solidarity” to strategy When Russia first entered Ukraine in February...
A Cairo special terrorism court postponed on Monday the trial of former Ultras White Knights leader Sayed Fahim, known as Sayed Moshagheb, and five others to September 22. The session was the first in the case against Moshagheb and his friends,...
In the 1980s and 90s, you would be amazed to see even one Black player in any European national squad – or, for that matter, even in club football. In the just-completed World Cup, Black players were everywhere, doing fantastic...
By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jul 21 2026 (IPS) Despite rising geopolitical tensions, trade restrictions and calls to bring production back to domestic shores, the global economy remains more interconnected than it may appear. Trade through global value chains (GVCs) reached historic...
Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, addresses a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York in December 1991. Credit: UN Photo/John Isaac By UN News UNITED NATIONS, Jul 21 2026 (IPS) Sixty-seven minutes. That is how long volunteers spent serving...
MQ-4C Triton Drone Tehran delivered to Washington via Pakistan in early April, a formalized demand for the withdrawal of US combat forces from military bases across the region. It sat in a package alongside the lifting of all sanctions and UN...
Seoul’s deepening ties with the EU and NATO, as well as recent statements made by President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Lee Jae Myung during foreign visits, suggest that by the end of 2026, South Korea may transition to...
The U.S. war with Iran continues to be a major distraction, diverting attention from other problems even within the Middle East. The Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not want it any other way. An image of Iran as...
Europe’s security fears are real and legitimate. But deploying nuclear-capable aircraft to Russia's doorstep is not the answer, and Washington's contradictions are making things worse. On March 2, French President Emmanuel Macron announced major changes to France’s nuclear deterrence doctrine: an...
On Monday, Yemen’s Houthis announced a blockade of Saudi Arabia, marking a major escalation that could ratchet up pressure on global oil markets at a time when U.S. and global oil stockpiles are dangerously depleted . A Houthi blockade could also...
Amid fears of fresh bloodshed, the country is hoping its offer of education and employment can provide a model for other nations to follow It didn’t matter that he was so frail he could barely walk. Rahmatalla Abdeen knew if they...
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