There's too many boring US/China news stories. Just because an article talks about the US or China (superpowers) does not make it interesting on its own.

BBC is on a roll today

uhh guys isn't this like really bad

Israel is the single state most responsible for antisemitism since its foundation.

The Comac/Bombardier C919 is so cool man. It's really the successor to Bombardier's commercial airline initiatives that got nuked by Boeing and the DOJ.

Seriously. Fuck Boeing and fuck the DOJ.

Shit headline for a very scary story

But at what cost?

They're stealing our IP!

Yes, noble Japan, honouring the 2 million noble war criminals who died attempting to subjugate its neighbourhood in Asia and responsible for the massacre of millions of Chinese, Koreans, Indonesians, Malays, ...

Every day the US pushes us closer to nuclear war.

In case anyone was wondering why China is rapidly building up their nuclear weapons stockpile, this is why. The US cannot stop their Cold War-era antics. They must always be superior. They must always be able to get the first say and the final say.

China's nuclear doctrine is very clear: don't launch nukes at them and they won't respond with nukes, but if you do then nothing is held back. No first use, just like India.

NATO's policy of allowing for first use stems from fears of being conventionally outgunned by the Soviets and now the Chinese. If anything, this should tell you where China's military capabilities lie.

What! No way! Nobody could have seen this coming!

Turns out cope cages are the new big thing in armour

Hamas capabilities alive and well.

Somehow.

Striking a facility that's entirely focused on detecting hostile nuclear launches is... Probably not the smartest thing Ukraine has ever done. Nuclear facilities typically are protected by MAD, and this is going to push Russia to the edge on nuclear weapons use.

This is terrifying and I have no idea why the US hasn't intervened to clear the waters.

The Security Council resolution drafted by Russia rivaled one backed by the U.S. and Japan that failed last month. The rival drafts focused on different types of weapons, with the U.S. and Japan specifying weapons of mass destruction. The Russian draft discussed all types of weapons.

Why is the US so keen to allow conventional weapons in space?

East Asian politics is played on centimeters, not miles.

A nudge a few centimeters in any given direction has the same effect as a North American leader completely flopping to a different position, because it indicates a fundamental issue: what direction is this guy taking me?

Turns out WW3 will be fought with balloons.

Do you want to know how many cars in China are from European car manufacturers?

Rebalancing trade is not some big bogeyman.

This feels self-inflicted to me. People forget that, during the Cold War, the Sino-Soviet split was very much a thing. People also forget that post-war Russia wanted nothing more than to integrate into the broader Western (European) economy, that the US' recognition of Taiwan as the government of China only ended in the 1970s, that the US was single-handedly responsible for propping up the KMT junta for decades, that China's interests have never left their immediate neighborhood, or that in fact Taiwan-China relations were normalizing under Ma.

It would not be remiss for me to mention that the big Western powers are currently complaining about Georgia's foreign agent law that would require organizations which receives significant foreign funding to register themselves... And that foreign ministers of European countries are marching in Tbilisi in protest of the law.

Foreign influence, whether that be direct (through funding) or indirect (through ideology, propaganda) is the foundation of many large social movements. That needs to be acknowledged, and it's perfectly fine. The notion that nations are meant to be entirely independent is one not based in reality: nobody is pretending Canada could align with Russia without getting nuked to high orbit. The world is built on realpolitik, not on lines drawn on a map.

Wait, you mean China is the one that's been consistent on policy and the Philippines was flipflopping?