Hormuz crisis forcing Japan to domesticate its energy security

Japan’s Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu phoned his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, on September 8, 2026, to express concern over the de facto closure of the…

China must be properly scared for an AI slowdown to work

This was the week that AI safety hit the big time. A 27-year-old AI researcher named Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic, declaring that…

Asia’s lonely economy of one

For most of modern history, the household was a bundle. Under one roof, families pooled rent and meals, raised children, cared for parents, kept each…

Nobody’s ready for coming crisis

E1: the illegal settlement at the heart of the UK’s West Bank trade ban

Israel has been building settlements in the occupied West Bank for decades. But Britain’s new ban on the import of settlement goods comes in a…

Zelensky tweets the war, producing Ukraine’s own situation report

Sometimes deciding how to frame these weekend updates can be a challenge. There are usually a number of important issues that need discussing each week,…

Bankrupt by Tuesday

‘Deed, not breed’: Owners and experts push back on stigma against ‘fighting dogs’

Rachel Law was making her usual stop at her neighbourhood Starbucks with her three dogs on an August afternoon when officers from the Agriculture, Fisheries…

Indonesia and South Korea upgrade their strategic relationship

South Korea and Indonesia this year have been working on elevating their relationship. Both countries are vulnerable to the changing geopolitical currents of our times.…

They’re finally turning on Trump

Northern Metropolis: Hong Kong homes flattened for HK$224 billion high-tech hub

Chan Yuk-tong hoped to spend his remaining years in the row of small, blue-brick houses where he was born and raised, but the 71-year-old’s Hong…

World just erupted against Trump

The Mecca pact and the fine print of power

Perhaps we all neglected to read the footnotes. When Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey unveiled their grand architecture of collective defense in Mecca, the language…

A new BRICS is emerging — can it deliver?

The New Delhi Declaration, adopted unanimously at the 18th BRICS Summit on September 12, will be read mostly through a geopolitical lens: Gaza, Security Council…

Bomb them to the Stone Age?!

This was an epic F** up

Sky News’ museum report does Taliban propaganda a service

Sky News published a video this month that opens on a rigged explosive device and a pickaxe under a stark title card, “Inside the Taliban’s…

9/11 began a US global reign of terror – now it’s come home

On September 11, 2001, the world watched as the World Trade Center, the twin towers that represented US global dominance, were struck by hijacked US commercial jetliners…

Qasem Basir missile’s combat debut escalates Iran war dangers

Iran’s reported combat debut of a new anti-ship ballistic missile marks a potentially consequential shift in the Gulf conflict, where increasingly sophisticated targeting networks could…

Macau to hold closed-door trial in first national security case against democrat

Macau will hold its first national security trial behind closed doors next week, a court said on Friday, in a case against a former pro-democracy…