US, China Militaries Hold 'Candid' Deconfliction Talks In Hawaii As Trump Goes Quiet On Taiwan

Taiwan Plans $930 Million Sea Drone Buildout As China Expands Maritime Pressure Taiwan is moving quickly to build a large fleet of unmanned vessels as it looks for cheaper, scalable ways to complicate any Chinese attempt to blockade or cross the Taiwan Strait, according to Nikkei Asia. The emerging strategy combines something Taiwan already does well, building ships and sophisticated electronics, with American expertise in autonomous systems, artificial intelligence and military command networks. The potential scale is significant. Taiwan’s navy is considering roughly 1,320 small attack drones for the water, with spending...

These Are America's Most (And Least) Dangerous States Where you live can significantly affect your likelihood of experiencing violent crime, with reported rates varying severalfold across the United States. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks every U.S. state and the District of Columbia by reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents between March 2025 and February 2026. The figures include murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, using data from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Washington, D.C. and Alaska Top the Rankings Washington, D.C. recorded the nation’s highest violent crime rate at 789 incidents per...

Jobs Huge Miss: Sept Payrolls Plunge To Just 29K, Below All Estimates As July Revised Negative In our jobs preview post, we told readers to "beware a bond squeeze as august seasonals reverse" and boy were we right: yields are tumbling from 5.22% to 5.16%, a new weekly low, as all those record TSY shorts get bigly squeezed following what was a big miss in the September jobs print which tumbled from a downward revised August (as we said it would be) 133K vs 162K originally to just 29K. It wasn't...