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Taiwan Defends Its Preparations Against China, Rejects the Word Provocation
On July 7, 2026, in a conference room in Taipei, Lin Fei-fan, deputy secretary-general of Taiwan's National Security Council, delivered a line

Taiwan activates a single command to lock down its coasts against China
On July 1, 2026, Taiwan officially activated its new Littoral Combat Command, a structure meant to unify all of its coastal defenses

China muzzles its humanoid AI agents, a disguised admission of weakness
Since July 5, 2026, two of China's biggest tech giants, ByteDance and Alibaba, have begun disabling the custom agent features of their

Nvidia's AI chips collapse in China as Huawei takes over
Barely three years ago, Nvidia held roughly 95% of China's artificial intelligence chip market, according to founder Jensen Huang's own words as

Taiwan's nightmare of a Chinese blockade doubled with a natural disaster
Taiwanese defense analysts are now weighing a particularly feared scenario: a Chinese naval blockade combined with a natural disaster, typhoon or earthquake,

China unveils humanoid robots with lifelike skin, and it is unsettling
Chinese manufacturer UBTech Robotics officially launched on July 1, 2026 its new line of humanoid robots called "U1," billed as the first

To Xi Jinping, on His New Best Friend in Pyongyang
I know you will never read this letter. But I am writing it anyway, because what has been unfolding between Beijing and

NASA Promises the Moon by Late 2028, Three Giant Rockets and a Race Against China
On July 5, 2026, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stated on CBS News's Face the Nation, hosted by Margaret Brennan, that he is

Can the Netherlands really catch up with China on robots
On Thursday, July 2, 2026, a new Humanoid Application Center opened near Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, with the stated ambition of reviving