China Proved Its Strengths in 2025—and Donald Trump Helped ( Economist) It was a good year for Xi Jinping.

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Who Can Solve Iran’s Many Problems? Not I, Says the President. (Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar, New York Times) Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U.

Trump’s Business Model Is to Break Europe (Majda Ruge, Foreign Policy) Washington wants a free hand for Silicon Valley and Russia investment. The EU is an obstacle—and the far right is an ally.

I Watched 12 Hours of Nick Fuentes (Ali Breland, The Atlantic) The white-supremacist influencer is laying the groundwork to go even bigger.

Inside the Space Force’s Push for Orbital Missile Killers (Stavros Atlamazoglou, National Interest) The development of these weapon systems has a clear goal: deter and, if necessary, defeat US ...

DHS begins collecting ten fingerprints from international visitors at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; Washington Dulles airport began doing so in late November; eight additional U.S.

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How Japan Built a Rare-Earth Supply Chain Without China (River Akira Davis and Kiuko Notoya, New York Times) The 15-year effort by Japan is a model for countries now scrambling to reduce their ...

Nuclear energy financing must undergo a parallel shift alongside improvements in technology in order to witness the second nuclear renaissance. AI Regulatory Lessons from the Atomic Age (Emily de La ...

Yttrium plays a critical role in everything from aircraft engines to semiconductors. China controls the vast majority of the market—and that’s not changing anytime soon. Even imagining a potential ...

Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent. No operational necessity justified Hegseth’s de facto order to kill two survivors clinging to the ...