Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
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Cultivating the nutritious bugs means families can raise livestock and enrich their own food, while lowering pressures on the land A few minutes’ walk from his home in the Kyaka II refugee settlement, Kanane Bikanyale…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / Palestinian entrepreneurs are finding new ways to turn traditional culture and modern technology into business opportunities, but limited market access, high production costs and gaps in…
HEBRON, West Bank / PNN / Palestinian resident Afaf Fadi al-Haddar is facing severe humanitarian and living conditions after her home in Hebron was demolished, leaving her and her family without the security and…
Europe
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The European Union is seeking closer cooperation with Vietnam to secure supplies of critical minerals and reduce its dependence on China, according to internal EU documents reviewed by Reuters, as growing geopolitical…
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Public Investment Corporation (PIC) chief executive Patrick Dlamini is facing questions about his private business interests after an anonymous whistleblower complaint called on the corporation's board to establish…
Biodiversity
A new report on deforestation reflects the persistent gap between global ambitions to conserve and restore forests and enduring practices that continue to destroy them. Credit: UN Climate Change/Diego Herculano By Umar…
The AI Competition—Simplified Lions, Tigers, and Bears, oh my! By Einar Tangen For Asia Narratives The global debate over artificial intelligence is trapped in a misconception: the belief that the nation with the fastest…
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For most of its history, Pakistan’s geopolitical value has risen and fallen with other countries’ emergencies. The Mecca Pact may be its most serious attempt yet to break that cycle. On Aug. 31, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia…
Southeast Asia
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The most consequential changes in a democracy do not always arrive with a constitutional crisis. Rather, they come through appointments, legal amendments and seemingly ordinary political bargains, accumulating one after…
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Advancing military AI capability is a priority for the United Kingdom, and in recent weeks, the new government has doubled down on its ambitions for AI and defense via two major partnerships.On Aug. 24, 2026, on his…
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Drawing on dozens of interviews with intelligence and police officers across two continents, a Guardian investigation reveals the murderous cost of our insatiable appetite for cocaine Read more: Latin American organised…
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Different forms are distinguished by who exercises control and which institutions they target Read more: How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state Two…
Iran
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Islam Times - The Iranian Foreign Ministry has again summoned Britain’s ambassador to Tehran, demanding that London promptly provide evidence for, what it calls, allegations linking Iran to an alleged security incident…
Technology
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The debate over artificial intelligence has settled into a familiar rhythm. Will large language models eventually wake up? Do they possess an inner life, or are they merely sophisticated mimics of human output?…
Active Citizens
By Anna Trushova KYIV, Ukraine, Oct 14 2026 (IPS) Medicine is supposed to protect human life and dignity. Yet testimonies from Ukrainians released from Russian captivity reveal a disturbing reality: medical personnel in…
Eritrea
On Friday, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos wrote to the U.N. Security Council, citing Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, to say Eritrean troops had advanced up to 38 miles into Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region…
Iran-war
Writing for the Daily Mail in 2023, Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sardonically argued , “The Americans don't give us crucial nuclear secrets because they love little old England. They don’t share…
Narco-terrorism
President Donald Trump likes to say he is " nine for nine " with the candidates he has backed in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Brazil's Oct. 25 runoff could make it ten. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro led the first…
Military
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As the US Navy lays the groundwork for its next-generation SSN(X) attack submarine to replace its aging fleet, the US’s longstanding undersea supremacy faces an intensifying test against China’s rapid naval buildup…
Larry C. Johnson
The East-West line to Yanbu is breaking down, and with it the kingdom’s last reliable route around Hormuz When the Strait of Hormuz closed at the end of February, Saudi Arabia had what almost no other Gulf producer had…
Ukraine War
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As the war in Ukraine grinds into its fifth winter, the collapse of recent diplomatic initiatives and Washington’s explicit pivot from arming Kyiv to brokering a territorial freeze have laid bare a stark new reality. In…
Eurasia
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Beijing’s biggest geopolitical concern each time Trump and Putin warmly embrace one another or the United States make a friendly gesture towards Russia is the fear that such moves will not only seriously impact…
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By: Khanh Vu Duc Vietnam President To Lam with Governor General of Canada Louise Arbour. Photo from VNA For years, Washington and Beijing have pushed the international system toward a binary logic: choose sides and…
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This past week, a flock of Israel supporters jetted to Jerusalem to attend this year’s “National Conservative” conference, the project led by Israeli political thinker Yoram Hazony. Days later, the offspring of…
Earlier today I published this week’s episode of Sharp China, in which we discussed the EU-China trade talks, Xi’s health and succession, and the possibility that the Trump Administration has hit “peak dove” on China…
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Some of America's allies apparently still have not understood Donald Trump's slogan, "America First". For some reason, they assumed that their own interests were part of the programme, too: Israel's security, Ukraine's…
CEO Interviews
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Eric Hong is Vice President of Engineering at Mixel, a Silvaco company, where he leads the development of analog and mixed-signal IP, including high-speed PHY and SerDes solutions. Prior to Mixel, he held engineering…
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Eric Hong is Vice President of Engineering at Mixel, a Silvaco company, where he leads the development of analog and mixed-signal IP, including high-speed PHY and SerDes solutions. Prior to Mixel, he held engineering…
Geopolitics
Detained when returning from a conference in Russia, a former UK diplomat in Moscow was forced to give a DNA sample to UK counter-terrorism police. Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service…
Geopolitics
The weaponisation of trade has not brought the global economy to its knees yet, but it is building up problems that won’t go away. Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia…
Corruption
Capitalism is becoming ever more dominated by large firms, and the owners of the small companies getting squeezed are naturally becoming increasingly disenchanted with the system. Dr Tommaso Crescioli is an Economist at…
China
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Two giant pandas recently landed in Atlanta, a week after Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Washington. The summit produced no immediate breakthrough on trade deals, Taiwan or AI, but it did produce something cuddly for…
National Politics
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Analysis of the political situation in Spain from a tenants’ union activist. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the article HERE . A protester shakes a keyring while holding a banner that reads “¡Derecho a techo a justo…
Technology
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For most of the past thirty years, the semiconductor industry ran on a remarkably clean division of labor. Everybody knew their place. The caricature was almost this simple: TSMC printed. Memory makers crammed…
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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 week, we bring you a curated selection of articles from…
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Teradyne has announced Magnum E2, a memory test system designed to address the increasingly demanding interfaces used in artificial intelligence and high performance computing. The platform targets advanced DRAM and…
Economy & Trade
Satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz. Credit WikiMedia By UN Women GENEVA, Oct 13 2026 (IPS) An additional 11.7 million women and girls could face food insecurity by the end of 2026, as the escalation in the Middle…
Energy
The Trump administration is implementing a new imperial scheme to gain control of Iraq’s oil. Although President Trump appears to be winding down U.S. involvement in Iraq, declaring on September 30 that “we’re getting…
Newsletters
Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband outside 10 Downing Street in 2024 (Alamy) This read was first published exclusively for our email subscribers on the 14th of September 2026. Get the latest from Anna Stavrianakis direct to…
Activism
Something stinks. Astoria is one of my favorites on the Oregon coast, a small town of around 9,000 people with great restaurants and craft shops. Two of them, a coffee shop and ceramics studio, are owned by a small…
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I try to understand all sides of an argument, even if it doesn’t make any sense to me on the surface. I understand why some people want to say pedophiles shouldn’t be demonized, even as it turns my stomach that people…
Activism
Sorry to intrude on your inbox again, but I wanted to bring your attention to yesterday’s raid by federal agents on the Washington-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar — 22 days before she faces reelection to Minnesota’s 5th…
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Sandra Rivera, Chair of VSORA , joined Bloomberg’s The Close in July for an interview on the current state of AI. What follows is a summary of that conversation. When a Silicon Valley veteran who once ran Intel’s Data…
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Intel’s strategic argument about enterprise AI is that the value of a model depends on the system that surrounds it. In an article by executives Bill Pearson and Anil Nanduri, the company positions open software as the…
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I recently read Joseph Murphy’s seminal work The Power of Your Subconscious Mind , and it left me thinking about how much power our inner lives can have over the way we experience the world. Murphy writes extensively…
War & Peace
The international system is having a legitimacy crisis. It has never been more obvious that the institutions charged with maintaining peace are struggling to produce it. But perhaps the problem isn’t simply that today’s…
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A British man fought for the Israeli army in Gaza when war crimes appear to have been committed, a four-month investigation by Declassified has found. Jonathan Burman, who is in his mid-20s and from Manchester, posted…
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Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with an extended survey of EU-PRC trade dynamics in the wake of an eventful week. Topics include: a deal on hybrid exports that may have averted a trade war, potential…