Asia-Pacific
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On 23 July 2026, Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio met in Manila, on the sidelines of the ASEAN ministerial meeting. Thirty-five minutes. No more. A short, formal exchange, with no major announcement. And yet, this meeting is a signal. The…
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Space is no longer the sanctuary of international cooperation. It has become a battlefield. Two projects, two visions, and one shared observation: the rules of the game have yet to be written. On one side, Jilin-1. China’s Earth observation constellation…
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On 17 July 2026, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3. A model with 2.8 trillion parameters. For the first time, a Chinese artificial intelligence surpassed American models on the benchmarks. Its score of 1,679 points on the Frontend Code Arena relegated…
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China has not fired a single shot in the Iran-United States war. Yet it may be the main beneficiary. It has observed, it has waited, it has reaped. While the United States was depleting its missile stocks, Beijing made sure…
