Day: September 18, 2026

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China’s AI Ambitions Widen A Dangerous Economic Gap

China’s economy is pulling in two directions at once, and July’s data makes the split harder to ignore. On one side, household spending is barely growing and the property sector remains locked in a multi-year collapse. On the other, factories are running hotter than ever, with high-tech manufacturing surging at […]

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Cambodia-Thailand Maritime Standoff

Twenty-five years of overlapping claims, a collapsed joint development agreement, and deadly border clashes have finally pushed Cambodia and Thailand into a formal UN arbitration process – one so rarely used that only a single prior case exists to serve as a model for how it might actually play out. […]

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The Leverage Nobody Has Ever Held: Lagarde’s Warning About Europe’s AI Dependency

Christine Lagarde doesn’t typically frame central bank speeches around geopolitical vulnerability, but her address in Vienna this week did exactly that. The European Central Bank president argued that Europe’s growing reliance on American and Chinese artificial intelligence isn’t just a competitiveness gap – it’s a strategic exposure that could hand […]