The Pentagon has given US defense companies just 21 days to submit plans for significantly faster weapons production, as concerns grow over depleted American munitions stocks following months of fighting with Iran. Representational image showing a missile. (REUTERS) Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg issued the directive to industry leaders on Wednesday, according to a memo…
Editor’s note: Dr Afshar Soleymani is a former Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan, as well as an analyst and researcher in political and international relations. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of News.Az. Modern conflicts are no longer decided solely by missiles, tanks and…
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…
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Two things happened last week that give us a much clearer picture of what the world is going to be like from now on. First, Iran asserted its control of the Strait of Hormuz by turning back two ships that didn’t take the correct route and second, a Chinese company released an AI model that…
Chinese tech giant Huawei said on Monday it had developed a new way of making semiconductors that could get around its US-enforced lack of access to the most advanced chipmaking equipment. Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen. Photo: Huawei. Huawei has been at the centre of a geopolitical standoff in recent years after Washington warned its equipment…
Before our eyes, global politics is once again changing its geometry: old alliances are losing their automatic significance, great powers are bargaining over spheres of influence, and Europe is being forced to redefine its place between the United States, China and Russia. To discuss whether this signals the emergence of a new bipolar world, why…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun that “people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese” and that the future of cross-strait ties should be decided by “the Chinese people themselves”. Cheng, the chairperson of Taiwan’s largest opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), is visiting China on what she has described…
Hong Kong-based Bar Leone is set to serve up its signature cocktails at the 98th Oscars Governors Ball with Don Julio Tequila on 15 March. Nimmi Malhotra finds out more. Diageo-owned Tequila Don Julio has partnered with the Academy Awards Governors Ball – the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ official after party, for…
Gu Ailing says it is “sweet” that JD Vance thinks she should be competing for the United States after the American vice-president called her out for representing China. Gu, who also goes by the anglicised Eileen Gu, was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University. However, she has competed for China internationally since…