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ANALYSIS: ALIBABA DRAGS THE PENTAGON TO COURT — THE SINO-AMERICAN LEGAL WAR BEGINS
That Tuesday, June 23, 2026, Alibaba Group Holding filed a complaint in the federal court for the Northern District of California, in San Jose.…
DECODING: THE PENTAGON CLASSIFIES 188 CHINESE FIRMS AS MILITARY — ALIBABA IN THE CROSSHAIRS
On June 8, 2026, the U.S. Department of Defense published the updated version of its so-called Section 1260H list — and the business world…
FACTCHECK: Reuters/Ipsos poll — only 24% say the Iran war was worth the price
On June 24, 2026, Reuters/Ipsos published a poll that landed like a cold shower on Washington's victory parade. Only 24% of Americans said the…
BREAKDOWN: US-Iran talks postponed in Geneva — when Lebanon nearly derailed the peace
On June 17, 2026, Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sign a memorandum of understanding that triggers a diplomatic earthquake. The Strait of…
ANALYSIS: The US-Iran roadmap — what "agreement on a roadmap" actually means
On June 22, 2026, Al Jazeera reported that senior Iranian and American officials had concluded their first round of talks in Switzerland, with Pakistani…
BREAKDOWN: Iran and nuclear inspections — the lie poisoning the peace
On June 23, 2026, an open dispute erupted between Washington and Tehran over a question as fundamental as it is explosive: had Iran or…
ANALYSIS: The U.S. Senate slaps Trump on Iran — 50-48, a Republican fracture
On June 24, 2026, the U.S. Senate passed a war powers resolution aimed at forcing President Donald Trump to end military hostilities against Iran,…
BREAKDOWN: Lavrov is looking for Trump — what Russia really wants to know after the G7
On June 24, 2026, Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, delivered a statement of unusual precision in its calculated disarray. Reported by Reuters via Investing.com…
ANALYSIS: Russia's war economy under strain — the cracks are widening
In March 2022, when the first major waves of Western sanctions hit Russia — freezing the central bank's reserves, exclusion from SWIFT, export bans…