The Lines We Thought Machines Wouldn’t Cross

On Tuesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that Islamabad was making progress in mediating a ceasefire between Washington and Tehran. The White House approved Sharif’s statement before it was posted, and it explained the truce would cover all warring parties.  The New York Times reported on Thursday that Washington reviewed and approved Sharif’s statement […]

Iran Destroyed 20% Of Pentagon's MQ-9 Reaper Drone Fleet: Report Via Middle East Eye Iran has destroyed $1bn worth of MQ-9 Reaper Drones, or roughly 20 percent of the US's pre-war inventory of the sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a report by Bloomberg on Friday. The report said that many of the drones were downed by Iran in flight, but that others had been destroyed on the ground when Iran targeted US military bases in the Gulf. via AFP The MQ-9 is both a surveillance drone and capable of carrying a payload, typically Hellfire missiles...

The Economic Tsar Who Built Modern China-And Whose Reforms The CCP Is Dismantling Authored by Heng He via The Epoch Times, Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the hard-edged reformer who engineered China's rise from planned-economy backwater to global manufacturing giant, died this month at the age of 97. Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji poses during a working session at the Europe-Asia summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Sept. 22, 2002. Gerard Cerles/AFP via Getty Images His legacy-tax centralization, mass layoffs, China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and a brief, forgotten moment of tolerance...