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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Form Intelligence Coalition Against Chinese Model Distillation
Three rival frontier labs are now sharing threat data through the Frontier Model Forum after detecting billions in losses from Chinese API extraction attacks.
The Weaponization of Everything: Trade, Technology, and Nuclear Escalation Reshape Global Order
As protectionism hardens across democracies and autocracies alike, strategic dependencies become geopolitical leverage points—from steel tariffs to rare earth minerals to uranium enrichment.
Beijing’s Grand Strategy Rejects Bloc Competition — And That Makes It More Dangerous
China's 15th Five-Year Plan signals a fundamental pivot: not toward winning a bipolar contest, but toward preventing one through technological sovereignty and multipolar partnerships.
China’s AI Capex Boom Masks Energy Vulnerability and Demand Cliff Risks
Record trade volumes obscure structural fragility as $98 billion AI infrastructure bet collides with Strait of Hormuz disruption and monetization lag.
German Corporate Insolvencies Hit 11-Year Peak as Industrial Crisis Deepens
24,064 bankruptcies in 2025 expose converging pressures on Europe's largest economy—energy costs, auto sector collapse, and rising US tariff uncertainty threaten eurozone stability.
China’s Private Sector Factory Surge Hits Five-Year High as Divergence With Official Data Widens
Caixin PMI jumps to 52.1 in February, fastest expansion since December 2020, while state data shows contraction—a split that complicates PBOC policy calculus and signals uneven recovery.
Canada and India Lock In $2.6 Billion Uranium Deal as Diplomatic Ice Melts
Prime Minister Mark Carney secured a decade-long nuclear fuel supply agreement in Delhi, resetting ties frozen since 2023's assassination crisis.
China’s Two Sessions Open Under Shadow of Tech Ambitions and Economic Rebalancing
Global investors await signals from Beijing's annual parliamentary session on AI governance, semiconductor policy, and the size of stimulus measures as China attempts to balance strategic technology goals against a weakening consumer economy.