Global markets are trading on a mixed trend on Tuesday following a rally led by tech and artificial intelligence (AI), as risks related to a potential reignition of the Iran war overshadowed Monday’s gains. Despite ongoing US-Iran negotiations, Tehran recently said it will suspend communications with Washington, protesting …
Read More »China Tech Stocks Surge on AI Optimism Despite Middle East Risks
Technology stocks led a broad market rally across China and Hong Kong on Tuesday as investors poured into artificial intelligence related companies despite continuing uncertainty surrounding developments in the Middle East. The strongest gains came from major technology firms including Tencent and Meituan, helping push Hong Kong’s technology …
Read More »The End of Globalization? How Wars and Trade Conflicts Are Rewiring Supply Chains
Sachin Yadav The past three decades have seen the phenomenon of globalization based on a very basic concept: producing where costs are minimum and marketing anywhere where demand is present. The result has been the formation of very efficient global production chains throughout the world. From 1995 to …
Read More »The Race for Data: Toward A Bipolar Digital World
Dr. Nessrine Mesto-Assaad At the end of the first millennium and the beginning of the second, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the decline of communist influence and the socialist model, the United States emerged as a global power based on the capitalist system and the …
Read More »Press Freedom Crisis Deepens Across South Asia as Media Credibility Faces Growing Scrutiny
Across South Asia, concerns over press freedom, political influence, and media credibility are drawing increasing international scrutiny. From Bangladesh and Pakistan to India, journalists and independent media organisations face mounting political, economic, and legal pressures that are reshaping how information is produced and consumed. Recent international assessments point …
Read More »The Power of the AI Chip: The Techno-statecraft Approach in the US-China Great Power Rivalry
The recent H200 chip export authorisation marks a new form of power signalling in the technopolitics sphere. Advanced AI chips are the newest weapons in the US-China great power rivalry, playing out in the battlefield of technological advancement and control. In the case of AI chips, state behavior …
Read More »Nvidia, Corning announce long-term partnership to expand US AI infrastructure manufacturing
Mucahithan Avcioglu US chip giant Nvidia and materials science company Corning announced a multiyear commercial and technology partnership on Wednesday to expand US manufacturing capacity for optical connectivity solutions used in next-generation artificial intelligence infrastructure. Under the agreement, Corning will increase its US optical connectivity manufacturing capacity tenfold …
Read More »The Trump–Xi Summit and the Decline of American Crisis Management
The upcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing is not a bilateral summit between two competing powers. It is a test of whether the United States can still manage major international crises on its own terms. The agenda is expected to include Iran, Taiwan, trade, …
Read More »Trump and Xi Meet: The Key Issues Behind America’s Most Important Summit of 2026
Trump is heading to Beijing for the most consequential foreign policy meeting of his second term. He arrives as the first US president to visit China in nearly nine years — the last visit was his own, in November 2017, when Xi rolled out a “state visit-plus” with …
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