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Tehran is trying to buy time as the war turns into a race to see whether its oil fields or global consumers can take more pain
By Benoit Faucon, Georgi Kantchev and Rebecca Feng
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 28, 2026
The new deep-sea atlas underscores Beijing’s interest in ocean mining, its military ambitions and its claims to disputed waters.
By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
The New York Times, Apr. 24, 2026
The US needs to block Chinese access to the most advanced technology
By Chris McGuire, senior fellow for China and emerging technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and former US National Security Council deputy senior director for technology and national security
Financial Times, Apr. 24, 2026
The cost of borrowing is already choking crucial public spending in many developing economies. Now it’s raising broader alarms.
By Patricia Cohen
The New York Times, Jan. 27, 2026
Beijing has used loans to developing nations to expand its influence, but a new study says no country has received more Chinese financing than the United States. In all, Chinese state-owned firms have provided $2.2 trillion in loans and grants around the world since 2000, a figure two to four times larger than previously thought, according to Brad Parks, the lead author of a report that AidData released on Tuesday, which draws on information from more than 30,000 projects in over 100 countries.
By Alexandra Stevenson
The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2025
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From seizing satellites to striking Earth from orbit — Beijing is developing dual-use capabilities in an intensifying arms race with the US
By Kathrin Hille in Taipei, Sam Learner in New York and Sam Joiner, Irene de la Torre Arenas and Dan Clark in London
Financial Times, Apr. 27, 2026
As a neuroscientist, I conducted research into artificial versus human intelligence. The results surprised me—and suggest we’ve been worrying over the wrong things.
By Vivienne Ming
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 24, 2026
Fully replacing stockpiles of weapons fired in the Middle East could take up to six years
By Alexander Ward, ShelHolliday and Yoko Kubota
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 23, 2026
A series of events beginning in 1776, including the writings of Adam Smith, ignited the changes that would produce the modern American economy.
By Kenneth G. Pringle
Barron`s, Jan. 13, 2026
If created, these versions of the building blocks of life could lead to environmental and ecological disaster
By John Glass, leader of the Synthetic Biology Group at the J Craig Venter Institute
Financial Times, Aug. 24, 2025
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The European Union signed off on loans to keep Kyiv afloat—but it may not be enough
By Kim Mackrael in Nicosia, Cyprus, Anastasiia Malenko in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Laurence Norman in Berlin
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 25, 2026
The most important global events likely to affect FX and bond markets in the week starting April 27
By Dow Jones Newswires staff
The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 24, 2026
The parallels with Britain’s disastrous Middle East adventure in the 1950s are impossible to resist
By Alex von Tunzelmann, the author of ‘Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and the Crisis that Shook the World’
Financial Times, Apr. 15, 2026
Money is one of humanity’s greatest inventions. But crises of credit have been with us since ancient times.
By James Grant, the editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, is the author of “Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution.”
The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 12, 2025
The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’
By George Hammond
Financial Times, Jun. 20, 2025
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