Touring Taiwan with Lex Fridman, Jensen Huang argued that denying chip sales abroad cannot secure the nation if it starves the very domestic innovation required to outpace rivals.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The arrest of Wanying Zhang at LAX for tracking the family of Taiwan's president exposes Beijing's reliance on diaspora cutouts for wartime leverage.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Donald Trump hosted Xi Jinping for a lavish Washington state dinner featuring a two-month trade truce extension, masking deep economic imbalances with hollow summit pageantry.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Nations have interests, not friendships. That old rule of statecraft seems to have slipped the mind of the White House. Diplomacy is not a dinner party. Statecraft does not run on personal rapport.
By Tom Beckwith ·
President Trump greeted Xi Jinping with rare planeside honors to project stability, but the transactional display fails to resolve deep structural tensions over technology and Taiwan.
By Tom Beckwith ·
As Xi Jinping visits Washington, China’s industrial self-sufficiency and supply-chain dominance leave American leverage diminished and old trade playbooks obsolete.
By Tom Beckwith ·
As Donald Trump hosts Xi Jinping in Washington, pageantry masks an unyielding competition where neither capital will risk economic rupture or surrender technological dominance.
By Tom Beckwith ·
As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Washington, both capitals swap short-term tariff freezes and AI safety talks for the comfort of recurring diplomatic theater.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The moment we hear "Pacific Islands Forum," the immediate assumption—the one the big capitals want us to make—is that it is merely another stage for great power posturing.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The mechanics of governance are simple: they require competence. They demand people who understand how cargo moves and where the rules—the real, profitable ones—are written.
By Bram de Vries ·
The sheer scale of modern military planning—the endless drone swarms, the layered defenses, the calculated 'Hellscapes'—is exhausting.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Taiwan has reminded us, with meticulous detail, that sovereignty is not merely a concept written into international law; it is the infrastructure you build when the giants are circling.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Ferguson argues America's capacity for coordinated international action has collapsed amid dangerous global flashpoints.
By Alma Cordero ·