Trump wants Japanese warships in Hormuz. Can Takaichi ‘dodge the bullet’?
The rapidly escalating conflict in the Middle East threatens to overshadow this week’s meeting between Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and US President Donald...
Precision strike: China targets US, Japan stranglehold on photoresist supply
China’s push for semiconductor self-sufficiency is shifting from broad aspiration to a precision strike on chokepoint materials, with photoresist – the light-sensitive chemical essential...
Is Xi Jinping betting on “new quality productive forces” to save the economy?
Is Xi Jinping betting on “new quality productive forces” to save the economy? Robots break everywhere, AI “raise lobster” flops in one week, “Xi-style...
Starmer holds calls with Trump and Carney on Iran’s Hormuz blockage
US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke on Sunday about the “importance” of reopening the Strait of Hormuz, currently blocked...
Why Iran strikes may drive Asian nuclear race, hit China in the Middle East: Zhao Tong
Zhao Tong is a senior fellow with the Nuclear Policy Programme at Washington-based think tank the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and its East...
How US-Israel war on Iran rocks foundations of the Abraham Accords
The 2020 Abraham Accords were heralded as a transformative diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East. The US-brokered agreements normalised relations between Israel and Arab...
US Airline CEOs Urge Congress to End Partial Government Shutdown in Joint Letter
The chief executive officers (CEOs) from multiple major U.S. airlines on March 15 urged Congress to quickly end a 29-day government shutdown that has...
Iran Sparks Global Fury, ONLY 40 Days to Famine and Collapse! Xi Panics, Tiananmen Locked Down
Another possible turning point may come not from missiles, but from food shortages. Israeli intelligence analysis suggests that the blockade of the Strait of...
Afghan asylum seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says
An Afghan immigrant who previously worked with the US military in Afghanistan and later sought asylum in the United States died this weekend in...