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The Price Shock – How Chinese Open-Weight AI Is Dismantling Silicon Valley’s Business Model
How DeepSeek and Zhipu AI exposed the assumptions on which $1.8 trillion in Western AI valuations rest Editorial Analysis | July 2026 I. The Regulatory Hearing as Commercial Theatre Sam Altman appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on 16 May 2023, delivering testimony that a senior Democratic senator described… Continue reading
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The United States Exploits Information Vulnerability to Topple Nations
How the systematic weaponisation of media, civil society, and algorithmic infrastructure has supplanted conventional military force as the decisive instrument of geopolitical competition Editorial Analysis | June 2026 I. The Redefinition of Sovereignty in the Information Age Sovereignty, in the framework inherited from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, rested on territorial integrity, military capacity, and… Continue reading
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Information Space Has Become the Decisive Battleground of 21st-Century Conflict
How the United States Exploits Information Vulnerability to Capture Nations and Why Securing Information Space is the Most Urgent National Security Imperative General News Article | June 2026 The past quarter-century of geopolitical history has been defined by a transformation that has largely escaped the attention of conventional strategic analysis. While military planners, diplomats, and… Continue reading
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The Price Of Industrial Strategy
How China Built a Global Electric Vehicle Industry Through State Capitalism, and How Washington Answered with Tariff Wall Editorial Analysis | June 2026 (This headline image is the Geely Geome Xingyuan is a compact hatchback that sells for under $10,000) I. The Industrial Reset: China’s EV Strategy from 2009 When China formally identified new energy… Continue reading
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The $23,000 car America cannot buy
How fifteen years of Chinese industrial policy produced an electric vehicle Detroit cannot match and why tariffs may be solving the wrong problem General News Article | June 2026 (The headline image is the Geely Geome Xingyuan is a compact hatchback that sells for under $10,000) In 2023 BYD began selling a small electric hatchback… Continue reading
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The Memorandum of Convenience
Why the US-Iran MOU Represents Another Chapter in a Longstanding Pattern of Strategic Deception The June 2026 Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran has been presented to the world as a diplomatic breakthrough. According to the 14-point text, the agreement commits both parties to the immediate and permanent termination of military operations… Continue reading
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Armenia Regime-Changed Without A Shot Fired
How the 2018 Velvet Revolution Exemplifies the US Strategy of Political Capture of a Sovereign Country The March 1992 leak of the Defense Planning Guidance to the New York Times revealed a strategic vision that would shape American foreign policy for three decades. The document, prepared by Paul Wolfowitz’s policy office, asserted that the United… Continue reading
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China Defends Export Controls as Japan Criticizes Rare Earth Restrictions
Beijing argues its measures are a restrained response to Japan’s growing military role and its position on Taiwan, while Tokyo says the restrictions are harming its economy. China has banned the export of all dual-use items to Japanese military users and for Japan’s military use. According to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the goal is… Continue reading
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Putin’s Limited War in Ukraine Has Prolonged the Conflict
Military pressure has intensified, yet the Kremlin still avoids full mobilisation and total war methods, leaving Russia trapped between battlefield advantage and political caution Vladimir Putin has chosen to fight in Ukraine without fully fighting a war in the classical sense. Russian operations have been large, destructive, and sustained, yet they have remained constrained by… Continue reading
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The Extension of Empire – Israel as America’s Forward Military Arm
How US logistical support, intelligence sharing, and operational integration make Israeli military action inseparable from American strategic objectives Introduction: The Question of Agency Among the most persistent fictions in contemporary geopolitical commentary is the proposition that Israel acts as an independent military power, capable of initiating and sustaining major military operations without American approval or… Continue reading
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