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China's 'Silent' War Drill: Taiwan Blockade Fears Put Conflict-Free Supply Chains In Focus Five days after we reported, "China Rehearses Taiwan Blockade In Unannounced Naval War Drill," Reuters appears to have caught up with our reporting about Beijing conducting unannounced war drills involving more than 100 military and coast guard vessels across the western Pacific and around Taiwan at the start of the month.Reuters cited a Taiwanese security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, who confirmed what we reported last Sunday about China's military and coast guard amassing ships in...

The United Nations Has Run Out Of Alibis Authored by Pierre Rehov via The Epoch Times, Institutions built to prevent atrocities eventually face the question of what they actually protect. For the United Nations, voting patterns, internal investigations and its own decisions this year no longer support the fiction of neutrality. An UNRWA school in Gaza sat above a Hamas tunnel shaft and three anti-tank positions, and its own principal was on the payroll of both institutions at once - a fact that American investigators, not the UN, brought to light. Israeli...

Launching AI Into Orbit Authored by Timothy Murphy via RealClearDefense, The Strait of Hormuz reminds us that a single chokepoint can shape the global economy overnight. What most policymakers miss is that space has its own version of Hormuz—and we are rapidly losing control of it. Multiple sectors of the global economy are dependent on access to the Strait of Hormuz, but nations are becoming ever more reliant upon access to space to drive their economies. Similar to the Strait, the key corridor in space is Low Earth Orbit (LEO). All...