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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida performed an impressive flip-flop last Tuesday, stating that he might be able to dissolve a religious corporation after all. The previous day he had insisted that his government lacked a basis for initiating procedures to do that. The religious corporation in question was the Japanese chapter of the Family Federation […]Continue Reading
Sweden’s Saab is getting up to speed in building the next generation of A26 Blekinge-class conventional submarines (SSK), with a forward-looking design that anticipates capability requirements for future seafloor warfare. This month, Naval News reported that Saab laid the keel of the first A26 SSK for the Royal Swedish Navy, the soon-to-be RSwN Blekinge, […]Continue Reading
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine complicates European energy security, many countries are being forced to scramble for new sources of oil and gas. For Germany, which imported 34% of its oil and 55% of its gas from Russia before the war, diversification has become existential. Topping the list of potential suppliers are nations of the Arab Gulf […]Continue Reading
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Last November, IBM launched its 127-qubit Eagle, surpassing China’s 113-qubit Jiuzhang to become the world’s fastest quantum computer. Now, China risks falling further behind in the quantum computing race as the United States reportedly weighs new export controls on the game-changing technology. The new ban, if implemented, would target quantum computing, artificial intelligence software and […]Continue Reading
The United States and European countries continue to pledge their support to Ukraine as Russia’s invasion drags on into its ninth month – and have backed their alliance with recurrent deliveries of advanced weaponry and money. But despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to Western powers of nuclear strikes, neither the US nor any Western […]Continue Reading
A month has rolled by since the outburst of nationwide protests over the death of the 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini arrested by Iran’s morality police for what the authorities argued was her “inappropriate hijab,” a movement that soon ballooned into a broader social revolt characterized by the centrality of women demanding freedom and equal […]Continue Reading
TOKYO – You wouldn’t expect an economist whose upcoming book is titled MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future to offer reassurances about the road ahead. But these days, Nouriel Roubini is outdoing himself.
The New York University economist has long been known as “Dr Doom,” but his new warnings about a global reckoning worse than the 1970s – that World War III “has already started” with Russia’s Ukraine invasion and that colossal landmines could detonate under the existing US-China tensions over Taiwan – might spur a new round of bunker-digging.
“Right now, we are facing major mega threats: economic, monetary, financial, social, political, geopolitical, health, trade,” Roubini warns in his text. “Unless we address them, we are headed towards disaster.”