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White House bans all U.S. agencies from work on G-20 in South Africa. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

Things afoot in Europe

According to Peterson Institute, U.S. tariffs on China are now 51.1% post-trade truce (down from a peak of 134.7%), while U.S. tariffs on the rest of the world average 11.7% (down from 15.7%).

A whirlwind week: 1. In Tokyo, highlighting new 🇯🇵 investments in 🇮🇳 2. In Yerevan, talking expanded 🇮🇳 🇦🇲 defense cooperation 3. In New York, discussing 🇺🇳 Security Council reform, including 🇮🇳🇩🇪🇯🇵🇧🇷 permanent membership

Interesting database of AI supercomputers. epoch.ai/data/ai-superc…

"Funding for [India's rare earth magnet stockpile] scheme has yet to be decided, with the government likely to meet industry officials next week to finalise the details." reuters.com/world/india/in…

Some practical suggestions for the EU and India to cooperate on clean energy: ensure new criteria do not create market barriers, address CBAM concerns, focus on upstream components, and offtake and price stabilization deals for critical minerals. ecfr.eu/article/caught…

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From Dr. Marta Bengoa for ORF America on 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 trade talks. orfamerica.org/orf-america-co…

From last October: timesofisrael.com/though-limited…

WSJ: "In the midst of a ferocious Israeli air campaign, Tehran has told Arab officials they would be open to returning to the negotiating table as long as the U.S. doesn't join the attack." wsj.com/world/middle-e…

It was great to host a delegation from Carnegie India this morning to discuss U.S.-India #tech cooperation, with a focus on #AI, #defense, and next steps on the #TRUST initiative. Some 📷:

Good read, but worth noting that last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won for using AI to predict the 3D structure of a protein from an amino acid sequence, enabling the prediction of the structure of almost all 200 million known proteins. ft.com/content/55bc58…

India evacuating some of its citizens from Iran, including students from northern Iran via Armenia.

“The ball disappears behind his elbow and the batter momentarily loses sight of the ball…It's like a catapult. At the very last millisecond, the ball is back in the batter's view, hurtling at somewhere around 90mph.” bbc.com/sport/cricket/…

CSPAN getting the Tarantino treatment

Trump shares this message from Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte. This is apparently real.

Shades of Edgbaston 2022, where an England line up of Crawley, Pope, Root, and Stokes successfully chased down 378 in the 4th innings against a bowling attack of Bumrah, Siraj, Shardul, and Jadeja, after a Rishabh Pant century and 50. #ENGvsIND

My colleagues at ORF America write on the different approaches to biofuels taken by the U.S., EU, India, Brazil, and Indonesia. (I, for one, did not know that Trump's EPA has proposed higher biofuel blending volumes through 2027.) orfamerica.org/orf-america-co…

U.S. restaffing its National Security Council: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…