Australia wants smart sea mines to put China in check

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asia times by Gabriel Honrada Australia is set to buy smart sea mines with a hard eye on China, a procurement most likely driven by changing notions of sea control, unclear prospects of acquiring →

All is not well for Ukraine

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asia times by Stephen Bryen The delivery of tanks, advanced air defense systems and potentially long-range ground-launched bombs may be a response to Ukraine’s dire requests, but it also brings with →

US-South Korea alliance needs urgent repair

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asia times by Mason Richey and Robert York Two critical issues have been increasingly affecting the situation between Washington and Seoul, whose frequent invocations of rock-solid alliance →

Cyclone Cheneso hits Madagascar and destroys roads to capital

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​africa news​​​ Several districts of Mahajanga, in the northwest of Madagascar, have flooded as well as the roads that connect them to the capital, Antananarivo. Cyclone Cheneso continues to hit the →

ChatGPT passes a Wharton business school professor's MBA final exam

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nbc news By Kalhan Rosenblatt New research conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School found that the artificial intelligence-driven chatbot GPT-3 was able to pass the →

Senior Ukrainian officials step down in rare purge in Kyiv

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​reuters​​​ Several senior Ukrainian officials resigned on Tuesday in the biggest leadership shakeup of the war with Russia so far, in what an aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called an answer →

California staggered by deadly back-to-back mass shootings

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​reuters​​​ Just two days after a gunman killed 11 people at a Los Angeles-area dance studio, seven more victims were shot dead in an agricultural area near San Francisco, as California suffered one →

Education starts early – or it should

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modern diplomacy By Manos Antoninis When children attend early childhood education, they are not just learning their ABCs and 123s, they are learning how to solve problems, live in harmony with →

How China became the world’s leading exporter of combat drones

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al jazeera By Zaheena Rasheed From Saudi Arabia to Myanmar and Iraq to Ethiopia, more and more militaries across the world are stockpiling Chinese combat drones and deploying them on the battlefield. →

Is Cold War Inevitable?

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​foreign policy​​​ By Michael Hirsh Even at the advanced age of 94, George Kennan was still arguing that the Cold War hadn’t been inevitable—that it could have been avoided or, at least, ameliorated. →

Electricity consumption predicted to rise 6 percent in 2023, in line with GDP expansion projection

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​global times​​​ It is estimated that China's electricity consumption - a barometer of economic activity - will reach 9.15 trillion kilowatt-hours in 2023 in normal climate conditions, up 6 percent →

Can Joe Biden Overcome America’s Toughest Challenges?

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​national interest​​​ by Ahmed Charai The controversy caused by the discovery of top-secret documents at the home, garages, and university offices used by President Joe Biden, following on the heels →

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