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...
Three days before its 67th sitting, the OPEC Secretariat did something it rarely bothers to do: it told the market, in writing, not to expect much from the meeting. In a statement issued ahead of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee’s...
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...
The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose by 3.296 million barrels in the week ending July 24. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories grew by 2.603 million barrels. Commercial crude...
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...
President Donald Trump revealed on Monday that sales of Venezuela’s oil by his administration have generated more than $13 billion since the capture of former President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, claiming that the revenue has effectively “paid for that...
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...
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's remarks about the difficulty of understanding the Russia-Ukraine conflict have once again highlighted what many in Moscow view as shortcomings in Russia's information strategy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged the issue directly. "That means we have not...
A recent investigation by OCCRP found that the co-founder of NSO Group, which develops Pegasus spyware, travelled to Panama in 2013 on an Israeli diplomatic passport. Senior researcher John Scott-Railton spoke with OCCRP, saying that the finding “raises questions about NSO’s...
Uzbekistan appears to be hedging its bets when it comes to Afghanistan’s ability to serve as a trade corridor. Over the past year, Tashkent has ramped up its engagement with Afghanistan, setting an ambitious target of almost tripling annual bilateral...
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...
At the beginning of Donald Trump’s first term as U.S. President in 2017, a senior White House official commented off-the-record to OilPrice.com that: “We’re not going to put up with any more crap from the Saudis.” The comment had followed...
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...
Tata Power, one of India’s biggest integrated power utilities, plans to build its first nuclear power plant by 2032 as the country opens the civil nuclear sector to private companies, CEO Praveer Sinha told Bloomberg Television in an interview on...
Some of Africa’s most accomplished contemporary artists will converge in Addis Ababa on July 29 for one of the continent’s largest international cultural showcases, as the “Unity” exhibition opens alongside the inaugural World Public Summit Africa on July 29–30, 2026....
President Volodymyr Zelensky met British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on July 27 as he kicked off a key week of talks with officials around the world to bolster Ukraine's defenses amid a rising civilian death toll from Russian air strikes...
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...
Andy Burnham walked into 10 Downing Street last week as Britain’s seventh prime minister in ten years. He takes over a country still absorbing the aftershocks of the Iran conflict, with the Royal Navy stretched thin as it escorts tankers...
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...
The anti-government protests in Libya over power cuts and high electricity bills over the past few days escalated on Tuesday, with protesters entering the Mellitah Oil and Gas complex and threatening to halt gas and fuel supplies for both the...
Russia continues to provide intelligence to help Iran strike American forces, Kyiv alleged over the weekend. Ukraine is also attempting to interdict the transportation of military goods between the two authoritarian powers. The post Russia continues to aid Iran in war...
By: Thai Scam Watch Although military rule in Thailand officially ended years ago, its footprint in the boardrooms of the country’s biggest state-owned companies is less well known, with interventions into the economy and in particular the vast state-owned enterprise (SOE)...
More than half a dozen empty supertankers are currently en route to Egypt’s Sidi Kerir port to pick up Saudi crude as the world’s top crude oil exporter is re-routing – again – its export tactics to avoid the new...
Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and easier. That is the central argument of a July 2026 report from the U.S.-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies....
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