Oil tanker costs hit record $1.2mn a day as Iran war disrupts shipping
Shortage of biggest supertankers has more than doubled rates on key Middle East-China routes since late August
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China takes stock of Broadcom gear amid domestic AI drive
Authorities examine extent of switches made by US company in state-backed data centres
Europe frets about Trump. But soon he could be the least of our problems | Mujtaba Rahman
The US relationship is stabilising, but how will Europe face up to Russia and China if President Le Pen is in power? I addressed a group of more than 100 European ambassadors recently on the big challenges facing the continent this year and next. My main point to these senior diplomats was that, perhaps counterintuitively, Europe’s biggest external challenges over the next 12 months will come from Russia and China, rather than the US. Europe’s relationship with Trump’s America remains difficult. The US president has weakened confidence in Nato, raised new transatlantic trade tensions and introduced uncertainty into everything from US support for Ukraine to his territorial designs on Greenland. Yet paradoxically, and notwithstanding Trump’s latest tariff threats over the EU’s outreach to Canada, the transatlantic relationship is becoming the more stable part of Europe’s external environment. Not stable, but more stable. Mujtaba Rahman is the managing director for Europe at Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm Continue reading...
The Guardian•Mujtaba Rahman21h ago- critical toward Donald Trump · 99%
AI looms large over Trump-Xi meeting amid deep distrust between US and China
Fears persist about Trump ‘sucking up’ to Xi on Taiwan, but few concrete outcomes anticipated from US meeting When Xi Jinping, China’s leader, touches down in Maryland on Wednesday, he will step out into the arms – perhaps a hug , if Donald Trump’s wishes come true – of a US president who has shown China more bonhomie than any of his recent predecessors. The meeting between Xi and Trump this week will be the second time that the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies have talked face to face this year. At the previous summit, held in Beijing in May, there was much talk of building a “strategic stability” between the two powers. But there was little by way of concrete outcomes : the countries remain at loggerheads over trade, export controls and geopolitics. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Amy Hawkins, and David Smith in Washington22h ago- neutral toward Trump-Xi summit · 82%
China warns of ‘red lines’ on Taiwan ahead of Trump-Xi summit
Heightened U.S.-China tensions over Taiwan could reshape diplomatic and military strategies, influencing global stability and market dynamics.
CryptoBriefing•Estefano Gomez23 Sept- neutral toward Donald Trump · 98%
Exclusive-Wife of US seismologist held in China says Trump will ask Xi to free him
GBGlobal Banking & Finance Review23 Sept
- neutral toward Donald Trump · 98%
Washington Needs This LNG Deal More Than Beijing Does
Xi Jinping arrives in Washington September 24, prepared to discuss reviving a $6 billion-a-year trade in US liquefied natural gas, contingent on lifting a 15% Chinese tariff that has blocked American gas since Q1 2025. Iranian missiles destroyed 17% of Qatar's LNG export capacity in March, and China absorbed that shock by buying more from everyone except the United States: Australia took 36% of its LNG imports from January through July, Southeast Asia 20%, Russia 12%, and Canada, a new entrant, 4%, according to Banchero Costa data. American cargoes…
Trump rejects ‘globalist scheme’ to control AI in blow to Burnham
President says US is ‘leading over China by a lot and everyone else, and we’re going to keep it that way’
- critical toward Andy Burnham · 93%
AI data under the microscope: Accelerating and securing the AI data supply chain for the health and biopharmaceutical sectors
This report examines how health and biopharmaceutical companies interact with the data components of the AI supply chain, and how a fractured global regulatory landscape shapes their ability to innovate responsibly. It maps seven data components, from training data to model weights, APIs, and SDKs, against real-world use cases spanning drug discovery, cancer diagnostics, and cross-border genomic research, explores fourteen exemplative regulatory regimes across the United States, the European Union, China, and India, and assesses the tensions, open questions, and policy recommendations that will shape the future of health data governance for corporations, researchers, and policymakers alike.
Atlantic Council•Justin Sherman22 Sept
Six-year-old sets new Rubik’s Cube world record
Lian Yunzhi, from China, learnt more than 1300 cube algorithms, spending between two and three hours practising on the cube per day in the past year.
The Sydney Morning Herald•Lily Shanagher22 Sept- neutral toward Rubik's Cube · 98%
UN Security Council Will Get Advice on AI Risks From Tech Giants Building It
DeepSeek will address the UN Security Council on AI risks this week, sharing a stage with Dario Amodei—who has spent a year calling China's government the industry's biggest threat.
- neutral toward United Nations Security Council · 99%
A new skyline of data centres is rising from the rolling plains of rural China
Potato farmers rub shoulders with rows of gleaming new data centres as Trump and Xi meet to discuss AI safety.
BBC22 Sept
Rare look at the remote engine rooms powering China's AI ambitions
The BBC is in Inner Mongolia where dozen of Chinese data centres are being constructed, as the country aims to lead the world in artificial intelligence.
BBC22 Sept
Is China’s Secret Power Advantage About To Trigger An 89% Crash In U.S. AI Stock
The current focus of the world’s governments, business and media when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) is on the dangers it poses to jobs, democracy and even the future of humanity itself. For many of a certain generation, these fears crystallise in the cold but relentlessly courteous voice of HAL, the on?board AI in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. After a crew member questions HAL’s diagnosis of a faulty antenna, the system secretly lip?reads the astronauts, discovers their plan to disconnect it, and kills them…
Chinese president arrives in US with new energy leverage amid global tensions
China's enhanced energy leverage could shift global energy dynamics, emphasizing clean energy's role amid geopolitical and market tensions.
CryptoBriefing•Estefano Gomez22 Sept
Chinese president arrives in US with new energy leverage as war rattles global markets
The Iran war has boosted China’s clean energy exports and strengthened its leverage in global energy markets, giving China little incentive to yield to President Donald Trump’s demands.
Xi Comes to Washington Armed With a Rare-Earth Card
Trump still doesn’t have an answer to China’s leverage.
Foreign Policy•Christina Lu22 Sept
Business Daily
Jacob Rothman built a manufacturing business in China supplying major retailers
BBC22 Sept
Macron urges world to 'stand firm' against 'abuse of power by empires' in final UN speech
French President Emmanuel Macron used his last address before the UN General Assembly as France's leader to urge the world's nations to stand alongside the United Nations in the face of a resurgent "law of the jungle". Macron also called for a moratorium on strikes on civilian and energy infrastructure in the Russia-Ukraine war and an "open-source" model for frontier AI independent of China and the US.
- neutral toward Emmanuel Macron · 95%
Tech Life
China is competing with the United States and other nations to develop AI.
BBC22 Sept