Markets Prematurely May Celebrate, But the Next Phase Likely Will be More, Bigger War

BYD Shares Soar Most In 13 Months As Chinese EV Push Into Americas Accelerates Shares of Chinese EV maker BYD surged the most in 13 months after a report that its factory in Bahia, Brazil, a former Ford Motor plant, secured export orders for about 100,000 vehicles from Argentina and Mexico. This development suggests BYD's strategy to localize production in South America is still in its early stages and set to flood the continent with Chinese EVs.   Bloomberg quoted Macquarie Capital analyst Eugene Hsiao, who said the local Chinese media...

DHS Issues Funding Warning To States That Don't Purge Voter Rolls Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday said that states that do not purge their voter rolls of potentially ineligible voters and noncitizens could lose funding. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin speaks during a news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, on July 17, 2026. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images It came as he said the DHS has identified more than 250,000 noncitizens who were illegally on voter...

Justice Department Counters Russian Military Intelligence Unit Attack On US Targets Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Justice Department and FBI on Tuesday revealed they have conducted a court-approved technical operation to neutralize part of a network of small office and home office routers in the United States that become commandeered by a unit of Russia’s military intelligence. The Department of Justice in Washington on March 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Russian Military Unit 26165—also known as APT28, Sofacy Group, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and...