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China using financial leverage to expand Pacific influence, analysts warn
Epoch Times: Newsham said that the Chinese regime always uses economic assistance and other forms of aid for…
August 4, 2026
“For your eyes only”: Israel’s mole inside United Nations
Drop Site: Hacked emails show Yahav Lichner, a UN official, repeatedly supplied Israeli diplomats with confidential UN reports…
August 4, 2026
Inside Oval Office showdown between Trump and Jeanine Pirro
New York Times: Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his…
August 4, 2026
Appeals Court says E.P.A. cannot block billions in climate grants
New York Times: In a split decision, 10 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District…
August 4, 2026
Trump admin drafting ban on Chinese data center devices, sources say
Reuters: The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees the U.S. telecom industry, is working on the measure to bar…
August 4, 2026
US consumer watchdog supervisor warned staff of ‘unpleasant’ fallout if they go too hard on firms
Reuters: The threat, which Reuters is reporting for the first time, was emailed on May 13 by Chief…
August 4, 2026
King who outfoxed Pedro Sánchez
Financial Times: Pol Morillas, director of Cidob, a Barcelona think-tank, said Ceuta was a clear example of the…
August 4, 2026
US cannot ‘stay isolated’ from Chinese EV competition, warns Lucid CEO
Financial Times: “Everyone is fighting for survival . . . the number of EV suppliers we have today is excessive and they…
August 4, 2026
Trump admin refunds $100bn in ‘liberation day’ tariffs
Financial Times: The sum, which is 60 per cent of the $165bn collected from the president’s “liberation day”…
August 4, 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue in cyber tests, UK watchdog says
Financial Times: The UK government’s frontier-AI safety and security research body said Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT…
August 4, 2026
China’s open-weight models will be spared US safety tests
Bloomberg: The White House has told top US artificial intelligence companies that open-weight models being developed by their…
August 4, 2026
White House’s AI guidelines exempt U.S. open models from govt review
Wall Street Journal: Under a framework that administration officials discussed with executives from leading AI companies Tuesday, only…
August 4, 2026
OpenAI calls Apple’s trade-secret suit ‘careless’ and ‘oddly personal’
Wall Street Journal: OpenAI swung back hard at Apple’s AAPL allegations it stole trade secrets, saying that the…
August 4, 2026
How ICE weaponizing social media against its critics
Wall Street Journal: To unmask anonymous online critics, DHS has sent hundreds of subpoenas to social-media companies, according…
August 4, 2026
‘Fraud squad’ at Caltech will catch you if you lie on your application
Wall Street Journal: The four-person team inspects every admitted student’s application, taking nothing for granted. They scour the…
August 4, 2026
MI6 is top European foreign intelligence service, peer review finds
The Guardian: A former head of the DGSE said: “The British have the ability to play the long…
August 4, 2026
Presence is deterrence: Restore America’s maritime patrol in Taiwan Strait
Miles Yu: Seeking a strategic opening to Beijing, primarily motivated by a desire to extricate the U.S. from…
August 4, 2026
Future, made in China
Evan Osnos/New Yorker: What kind of world does China imagine? A preview of sorts is provided by its…
August 4, 2026
Putin doesn’t take Europe seriously. Who can blame him?
Garry Kasparov/Telegraph: Putin, like all successful dictators, relies on animal instinct, and every concession on the part of…
August 4, 2026
Bessent misses chance to coordinate with China-wary Europe
Bloomberg: While Trump called out China’s yuan policy long before Merz — even tagging the country for a…
August 3, 2026