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INVESTIGATION: DAIMLER-ROSHEL, THE INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE CHANGING DEFENCE
On June 16, 2026, in Paris, in the corridors of Eurosatory 2026 — the world's largest land defence and security show — two companies…
ANALYSIS: BIOSECURE ACT AND WUXI APPTEC — THE PROXY BIOLOGICAL WAR
On June 8, 2026, the United States Department of Defense published its annual update to the so-called 1260H list — the registry of Chinese…
EDITORIAL: FREE-RIDING IS OVER — THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE OR DEATH
There are words you cannot take back once they have been spoken publicly. "Shameful" is one of them. US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,…
DECODING: THREE CRISES IN ONE WEEK — IRAN, CHINA TECH AND NATO
The week that ended on June 21, 2026 produced three simultaneous developments each capable, taken in isolation, of redefining the foreign policy of a…
ANALYSIS: NATO 3.0, THE TRANSATLANTIC REBALANCING THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
On June 18, 2026, NATO's Defence Ministers gathered in Brussels for the last ministerial session before the Ankara summit. This was no ordinary meeting.…
COMMENTARY: Xi Purges His Own Army — And Calls It Loyalty
On June 17, 2026, at the National Defense University in Beijing, Zhang Shengmin — vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the sole general…
COLUMN: China Wants 9 Aircraft Carriers — And It Has Nothing to Do With Defense
In May 2026, satellite images captured above the Dalian shipyard in northeastern China revealed something Western strategists had been dreading for years: a 286-meter…
ANALYSIS: The AI Boom Is Choking East Asia — Kaohsiung and Yongin Pay the Price
On June 19, 2026, journalist Yujie Xue of Nikkei Asia published an article with a sober title but devastating content: "The AI boom is…
DECODING: Chinese Chips via Singapore and Malaysia — The Bypass Worrying Washington
On June 20, 2026, researcher Jing Ge of the East Asia Forum published an analysis that passed almost unnoticed in the noise of the…