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The foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will hold an informal meeting with their ​Myanmar counterpart this weekend, for the first time in five years. The meeting, which will take place in Bangkok on July 12, was confirmed yesterday by the foreign ministries of Thailand and Vietnam, Reuters reported. “The meeting in Bangkok is an opportunity for ASEAN foreign ​ministers to directly exchange views, strengthen cooperation, and promote reconciliation dialogue in ​Myanmar,” Vietnam Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said in a regular press briefing yesterday. Since the military’s seizure of power in February 2021, Myanmar…

Travis A. Karnes, RealClearDefense A refined five-point operational framework to leverage technological asymmetries, disrupt Russian logistics, and break the attritional stalemate in… Source link

Generative tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude have made artificial intelligence (AI) highly visible in everyday work. Millions of people now use such tools to draft emails, summarize notes, translate text, or clean up presentations. This creates a powerful impression that AI has already entered workplaces at scale and that major labor-market effects are imminent. Yet the visibility of AI use and its transformative impact on work are not necessarily the same thing. The forms of AI adoption most likely to transform productivity and employment are not necessarily the most visible ones: workers occasionally using a chatbot in a…

Meda Parameswara Reddy, RCDefense A nation that plays its most powerful card — the card that brought global commerce to a halt — and receives in return 60 days of toll-free passage and a… Source link

The Philippines’ defense minister has rejected recent claims by Chinese scholars that Batanes, its northernmost province, belongs to China, describing the assertions as “baseless” and “ludicrous.” At a symposium at Jinan University on June 30, Chinese scholars from several institutions, including Nanjing University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, claimed that China enjoyed sovereignty over Batanes, a group of islands lying midway between Taiwan and the Philippines’ Luzon island. According to a report by Jinan University, which was later published by the Guangdong-based news outlet Newsgd, participants described the Batanes Islands as a “natural geographical extension” of Taiwan, which…

L. Todd Wood, CDM Sources with knowledge of the situation have told CDM that the pressure applied to the Russian Federation’s critical infrastructure via Ukrainian (NATO) long-range… Source link

Thailand’s government has decided, like Japan and others, that the quality of the tourists it attracts is far more appealing than the quantity. After receiving just 33 million foreign arrivals to the Kingdom this year, far below the record 40 million it recorded in 2019, Thailand is betting that a smaller number of more wealthy tourists can generate the same amount of revenue. It is seeking to attract them in part by providing “meaningful experiences” for the rich in the form of golf resorts, wellness retreats, fine dining, and luxury packages. Thailand is suffering not only from a decline in…

Alexander Lee, RealClearDefense The West needs to reinvent counterterrorism. Source link

Breaking Defense Kyiv has sought more Patriot interceptors to aid in its defense against Russian missiles and drones Source link

David Deptula, 1945 . . . airpower did not… Source link