For the first time in nearly two weeks, America has not launched new strikes against Iran in the past 48 hours. The lull comes after 13 consecutive nights of American bombing and 12 attacks by Iran on ships in the Persian Gulf since July 6th, essentially shutting the Strait of Hormuz once more. The ceasefire…
Donald Trump has used an extraordinary prime-time speech to accuse “deep state” bureaucrats of hiding the truth about compromised US election systems and an alleged Chinese operation to influence American voters. The US president, who has for years claimed without evidence that the 2020 election was “rigged”, said he had declassified documents that would prove…
The market realignment over the past week starkly captures the self-defeating logic of America’s technology containment strategy. The momentum began on June 15, when the shares of Chinese artificial intelligence pioneer Zhipu AI, which trade in Hong Kong under Knowledge Atlas Technology, surged by 48 per cent intraday after it announced the open-source release of…
Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue through links in the content below. Palmer Luckey, the billionaire founder of defense technology company Anduril Industries and Oculus VR, is sounding the alarm on America’s dependence on China — and his warning goes far beyond cheap…
More than six months have passed, and Bruna Ferreira still does not understand why she was arrested. Nor does she understand why the Donald Trump administration labeled her a “criminal illegal alien” after her detention. What she does know for certain is that she has lived through a true “nightmare” ever since. She thanks God…
Hackers are excited. Surveillance advertising corporations are elated. Political thought-police are enraptured. China has just approved the world’s first brain-computer chip. And they’ve beaten billionaire tech-bro and MAGA evangelist Elon Musk to market. The coin-sized device, called NEO, is the first surgical implant to pass clinical trials for commercial sale. Version one is optimised to…
IF YOU ARE confused about the status of talks between America and Iran, you are in good company. Diplomats in Washington went into the long Memorial Day weekend hopeful that a deal might be imminent. Officials from Pakistan and Qatar, which are helping mediate, visited Tehran, the Iranian capital, on Friday. After a call with…
In an unprecedented act of defiance, Beijing has ordered Chinese businesses to ignore the United States’ sanctions against Iran. Chairman Xi Jinping is due to meet President Donald Trump for personal talks in the coming days. And a lot has changed since their last Beijing soiree in 2017. Trade is a deeply entrenched battleground between…
IT IS SOMETIMES said, not least by President Donald Trump, that America and China are now the G2, a duo of superpowers leading the world. That is a grim thought. One has a leader who treats allies like patsies and is ripping apart the institutions that underpinned global stability for decades. The other has an…
LAND WARS in Asia have rarely gone well for America. In Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, America spent years on the ground, ensnared in conflicts for much longer than first expected. Now President Donald Trump is threatening to repeat the experience. Short of options to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, he has sent thousands of troops…