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"A central fallacy of Israeli strategy is the long-standing belief that territorial depth offers lasting security - Proponents argue that control over Gaza/West Bank is essential to prevent attacks. But that logic collapses in today’s strategic landscape" ft.com/content/05e6f0…

A US client state about to launch a war against a fourth country on top of committing an ongoing genocide is what absolute US regional policy failure looks like. Insanity.

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Chinese universities ranked above MIT, Oxford, Stanford in the new 2025 Nature Index: Zhejiang, USTC, Peking, Tsinghua, Nanjing, Shanghai Jiaotong, Sun Yat-sen, Fudan, Sichuan China’s heavy investment in scientific research underpins all of its tech & industrial advances.

#بيان | تعرب المملكة العربية السعودية عن إدانتها واستنكارها الشديد للاعتداءات الإسرائيلية السافرة تجاه الجمهورية الإسلامية الإيرانية الشقيقة التي تمس سيادتها وأمنها وتمثل انتهاكاً ومخالفة صريحة للقوانين والأعراف الدولية.

I have yet to see anyone in mainstream media make the obvious point that Israel has a nuclear monopoly in the Middle East and has gone to war in order to preserve it.

Ambassador Tom Barrack 'Make Syria Great Again': how Sunni populism is reshaping post-war Syria en.majalla.com/node/325607

I'm very glad to see this article getting read and cited! We analyse how China tries to persuade global South countries to adopt Chinese practices. Full article: China’s ‘do-as-I-do’ paradigm: practice-based normative diplomacy in the global South tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Seems like the operative doctrine for Israel now is a region-wide "mowing of the lawn". The GCC should take note - we contended with a real strategic ceiling given US emphasis on maintaining Israeli QME since the 70s. With the events in Iran, it will only get worse now.

“U.S. export controls have proved less effective as barriers against the acquisition of advanced chips by China than many policymakers and industry analysts expected.” foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Agreed. The case for the GCC states’ developing a credible and independent (of the US) capability to defend against and deter threats is now stronger than ever. The threshold for Israeli military aggression and US appetite to restrain Tel Aviv have become ridiculously low.

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.Christiane Amanpour explains that Iran wanted to make deal with the US & its delegation was feeling optimistic over the next round of talks. Note, one of Israels frst targets when they launched their unprovoked attack on Iran was the head of the Iranian delegation

Just read this fascinating history of Saudi and East Asia in the Cold War

The The New York Times reports that the Trump administration was "unaware of any new intelligence" showing that Iran was rushing to a bomb—which was Israel's justification for starting the war when it did. But Trump gave up on trying to restrain Netanyahu

I don’t know how anyone can see the language of domination and religious fanaticism circulating among American and Israeli officials and conclude that this entire march to war has anything to do with the interests of ordinary civilians anywhere.

CNN put together a collection of clips of Netanyahu warning Iran is close to a nuclear weapon going back to 1996

-- New High Capacity piece -- China is already the world's manufacturing superpower and facing accusations of "overcapacity" from the US and EU. Yet renowned scholar Lu Feng argues that China needs even more industrial power, not less. Full piece: high-capacity.com/p/chinese-indu…

No one needs to (or should) be a fan of Baghdad under Saddam Hussain, or Tehran under Khamenei's regime. Not the point. Simple question: was Iran imminently close to a nuclear weapon? No, it wasn't. US intel agrees; the IAEA agrees; it's the Israelis that say otherwise.

A war is underway, and many will die as a result. Analysts, journalists, politicians; they all should remember the cautionary lessons of the Iraq war. The 'dodgy dossier' was 'dodgy' before it was even filed, this time around. Everyone knows it. Don't fudge the facts.