The People’s Republic of China has used its statecraft to weaponize its trade with other countries on several occasions in recent years. Such behavior usually arises when the PRC interprets another country’s actions as hostile to its political interests and...
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Four weeks ago, Pakistan looked like one of the biggest winners of the U.S.-Iran war. Its army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, shuttled between Washington, Tehran and Gulf capitals for months. As part of his efforts, Pakistan hosted the first face-to-face...
China hawks are losing the public opinion battle
Full ArticleIt sometimes seems easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Washington’s anti-China obsession. Congressional Republicans, on one side, are championing a staggering $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget that would cannibalize domestic programs to " deter China ."...
After ten years of upgrades, repairs, and program-related issues, the lead Zumwalt-class destroyer is finally returning to service this September. But it will have to go without the hypersonic missiles many hoped would give the troubled program a purpose. Thanks to...
The Israeli government paid a Republican Party-aligned public affairs company $9.9 million to advertise and promote content in American social media and news sites, according to a new disclosure made to the Department of Justice. The firm, Targeted Communications Global,...
When management pundits in the Harvard Business Review first asked whether China could innovate, most saw a nation condemned to mere imitation of the West. From “China Is Not About to Out-Innovate the US” (2010) to “Why China Can’t Innovate” (2014), Western...
The following biographical entry draws almost exclusively from an Arabic piece composed by Mawlānā Ḍiyāʾ al-Ḥaqq ʿAbd al-Aḥad, a graduate of Jāmiʿa Dār al-ʿUlūm, Karachi, and a former professor of Arabic literature and rhetoric at the Jāmiʿa Banūriyya ʿĀlamiyya. Mawlānā Muḥammad...
By: Toh Han Shih As China’s rapacious miners increase their resource extraction in various countries to feed an economy that is the world’s biggest consumer and producer of transition minerals, allegations of human rights abuses and environmental damage have increased across...
Petty and vindictive. Such was the ban on travel to the United States handed out by the State Department on December 23 last year to five Europeans, one of whom was Clare Melford, chief executive of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a non-profit whose...
In a corner of the Saarland, a man ran a blog. It carried no advertising and charged nothing to read. It was funded the way a busker is funded, by whoever chose to drop something in the hat – €60,038.65...
In his farewell address of January 1961, Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans against the “acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex,” and the danger that “public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”...
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...
UK resident was evacuated from Democratic Republic of the Congo where there is an outbreak of the disease A humanitarian worker is being monitored at a specialist hospital in London after potential exposure to the Ebola virus. The UK resident was medically...
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...
Silicon Creations provides world-class IP for precision and general-purpose timing (PLLs and oscillators), high-performance multi-protocol, latency optimized and protocol-specific SerDes, high-speed I/Os, and accurate VT sensors. Applications include high-performance computing for AI, smart phones, wearables,… com/ip/silicon-creations/371418-silicon-creations-at-dac-2026-solutions-for-clocking-serdes-and-sensing-in-2nm-and-beyond/">Silicon Creations at DAC 2026:...
Chris Hedges – Becoming the Stranger
Full ArticleEce 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...
Pavel Devyatkin, Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom – France is doubling down on nukes: will Europe pay a price?
Full ArticleEmmanuel 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...
- China remains Germany’s most important trading partner in January-May 2026 - Import surplus in trade with China increases to 42.8 billion euros (January-May 2025: +33.5 billion euros) - Road motor vehicle exports to China decline sharply Read Article HERE The post DeStatis – Germany:...
Is China Claudia Sheinbaum’s Model for Mexico?
Full ArticleMexico’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...
Why the West Fails to See China’s Strategic Horizon
Full ArticleThe 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...
Trump’s July 4 sparks counter-250 events
Full ArticleBy 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...
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity: Nobel Laureates Call for Global Safeguards
Full ArticleGlobal 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 symbolic departure of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not end in political rupture or dramatic collapse, but in a quiet administrative disappearance of authority. That detail is not incidental — it is diagnostic. It reflects a deeper condition...
Has the Brazilian people finally found an ‘enemy’?
Full ArticleThe 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...
Study: Israeli Settlement Expansion Targets More Than 22,000 Dunums and Nearly 20,000 New Housing Units in 2026
Full ArticleRAMALLAH, 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...
Khouri Warns Churches That Israeli Settlement Expansion Threatens the Survival of Indigenous Palestinian Christians
Full ArticleRAMALLAH, 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...
Palestinian Prisoners Report Growing Use of Rubber Bullets Inside Israeli Prisons as Injuries Mount
Full ArticleRAMALLAH, 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...
Technological sovereignty as a geopolitical category
Full ArticleEven 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 expands occupied zone in Gaza City’s Zeitoun, orders evacuations in Deir al-Balah
Full ArticleIsrael 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...
7amleh Examines TikTok's Crime Algorithms
Full ArticleBethlehem / 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...
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