Perfidious empire
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies Tell me lies Tell me, tell me lies Oh no-no, you can’t disguise – Fleetwood Mac Perfidy. There is no other word to...
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Beijing bans Nvidia’s top graphics card to back domestic rivals
Chinese online gamers and hobbyist artificial intelligence (AI) developers have been dealt a setback as Beijing banned the import of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090D V2, a graphics card specifically engineered...
US air losses over Iran may grimly foreshadow China war risks
Heavy US aircraft losses in the Middle East are raising fresh doubts about whether US airpower can withstand sustained attrition in a future Pacific war against China. This month, the...
Top Democrats decry Trump ‘taxpayer shakedown’ and ‘super-pardon’
Top Democrats on a pair of panels in the US House of Representatives have demanded that Justice and Treasury department leaders answer for how they settled President Donald Trump’s $10 billion “sham” lawsuit against...
Trump-Xi summit didn’t change North Korea’s strategic reality
The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing may have projected calm at the leader level, but it should not be mistaken for strategic convergence. Whatever one makes of the new language of...
Truce holds a year after brief Indo-Pak war, conflict continues
A year has passed since conflict broke out between India and Pakistan, briefly raising fears of an all-out war between the two nuclear powers. While violent conflict between the neighbors...
Xi and Putin tout ‘new type’ of world order in...
Less than a week after hosting Donald Trump, China’s leader Xi Jinping welcomed his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to Beijing. Unlike Trump’s visit, this was a routine meeting. The Chinese...
Pakistan’s Saudi deployment reveals a new Gulf security reality
The reported deployment of Pakistani troops, fighter aircraft and air defencs systems to Saudi Arabia under a confidential mutual defense agreement may prove to be one of the most significant...
Goats win, tigers lose, but stalemate is optimal performance
Somewhere in the foothills of Nepal, old men still gather around a wooden board carved into a five-by-five grid, moving carved tigers and goats across its intersections with quiet concentration....
Indonesia says its giant sea wall will stop flooding
Zane Goebel, The University of Queensland; Sonia Roitman, The University of Queensland, and Udiana Dewi, University of Sydney Indonesia plans to build a “giant sea wall”, more than 500 kilometers...
