China announced new measures against the United States, including putting American firms on a trade blacklist and tightening controls on drone exports.
Taiwan began its largest annual military exercise, called Han Kuang, on Wednesday, testing how well its armed forces could respond to a potential attack by China.
Chinese companies are giving Iran satellite reconnaissance help and drone parts, while China keeps buying Iranian oil, according to Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
A Shanghai company called Aishengna, founded only in 2023 and backed by the state, has started full-scale production of DUV lithography machines, the equipment that uses light to print circuit patterns onto silicon and that every computer chip needs to be made.
CFR's survey of foreign-policy experts puts the odds of coherent global AI governance at a median 29 out of 100. Meanwhile nation-state hackers are already folding generative models into every stage of the intrusion lifecycle, and Taiwan is racing to build an AI defense it cannot yet fund. Three threads, one convergence.
BMW reported a clear drop in profit, and several other German carmakers released similarly bad results in the same week, according to Tagesschau.
Four separate studies published this month found China pulling ahead of the United States in several areas at once: global opinion polls now favor China over the US in most countries, China's trade surplus keeps growing, its biotech industry is running drug trials faster and cheaper, and its military has added disinformation and fake videos to its war plans for Taiwan (a self-governing island China claims).
A single phrase in Brussels' new China paper — that Beijing seeks to "reshape the global order" — reclassifies every EU-China decision from trade dispute to strategic contest.
Beijing hit 14 EU entities with export controls and called it payback for Europe's newest Russia sanctions — opening a second, major-power front in the sanctions war, though the details that decide whether it bites remain undisclosed.
Whoever controls a supply chain's narrowest point now sets the price of everyone else's security. This week the pattern showed up in four regions at once.
A strait America cannot keep open, a navy built to close another, a nuclear taboo cracking in Tokyo, factories rising in Romania and Ukraine — read together, the week tells a single story about who pays for security and who collects.
For years the United States led China on global favorability. A new Pew Research Center survey shows that lead has reversed across most of 36 countries and territories, including two of Washington's closest neighbors — the first hard data pointing to a measurable shift in soft power.