Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.

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At 8pm Tehran time on Tuesday, a new kind of front line was drawn, not through desert terrain or along a disputed border, but through the server farms, cloud regions, and corporate campuses of America’s largest technology companies. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps published a statement on its official Sepah News channel naming 18 US […]

South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze

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When Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February, choking off the corridor through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas flows, the immediate consequences were predictable: crude prices spiked, energy markets convulsed, and geopolitical analysts reached for their most alarming adjectives. What fewer people anticipated was how quickly the crisis […]

The US is quietly warning its Middle East partners about the cost of stocking up on Chinese-made weapons

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Chinese President Xi Jinping with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh in December 2022.

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US Navy video shows a dozen Iranian fast-attack boats swarming an oil tanker in its latest maritime seizure

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A screenshot of a video showing fast-attack craft from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy swarming Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi as it transits the Strait of Hormuz, May 3, 2023.
A screenshot of a video showing fast-attack craft from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy swarming Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi as it transits the Strait of Hormuz, May 3, 2023.

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An A-10 squadron is loading up with a lot more bombs for a new mission even as the Air Force tries to get rid of its attack planes

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An airman inspects and cleans a rack on an A-10 Thunderbolt at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan on December 2, 2011.

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China is succeeding in the Middle East because it learned from watching the US fail there for 20 years

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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang shake hands during a meeting in Beijing, China, April 6, 2023
Iranian, Saudi, and Chinese foreign ministers during a meeting in Beijing on April 6.

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Here's every country that has partially or completely banned TikTok as the US threatens a nationwide ban

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Montana recently became the first state to pass a bill banning TikTok. It is unclear if the governor will sign it into law.

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China brokering a deal between the Saudis and Iran is a message for the US: Change your strategy or get left behind

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A Tehran newspaper reporting on the China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia on March 11.

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Mark Mobius says he is 'very, very skeptical' of investing in bank stocks but keeps his cash in an account in Dubai

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Mark Mobius.

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Dozens of Senate Republicans oppose overturning the law that made the disastrous 2003 Iraq invasion possible

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GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Mitt Romney of Utah, and Tom Cotton of Arkansas were among those that voted against beginning debate on Iraq War AUMF repeal on Thursday.
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