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On September 4, Lingang New Area in Shanghai launched an AI+micro-drama overseas service station, with initial service points in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. The initiative is designed to help Chinese companies navigate overseas regulations, localize content, and connect production with distribution in foreign markets. The service station covers the full export chain including content development, production, translation, and distribution. Rather than simply helping companies sell finished dramas abroad, it brings several stages of the export process into one system.  Online literature, games, and micro-dramas are increasingly described in China as the “New Three” of cultural exports.…

Simon Shuster’s recent article in The Atlantic, asking whether Taiwan might simply “give up” in the face of growing pressure from China, attracted considerable attention in Taiwan and among the broader community of China and Taiwan watchers. Some praised the piece for its candid analysis and for asking uncomfortable questions that are too often avoided in discussions about Taiwan’s security. Others were somewhat less impressed.  The article quickly came under fire from Taiwanese and (mostly) Taiwan-based foreign analysts, who pointed to factual errors, questionable interpretations of domestic politics, and what they saw as a selective and misleading portrayal of Taiwanese…

There is little doubt that great power competition is ramping up. Now, another front has opened, with the United States announcing that it has deployed a space weapon. China, and subsequently Russia, had been pushing the limits in space, testing advanced technologies with possible offensive uses in outer space, including cyber weapons, ground-based lasers, and artificial robotic arms that could be used for repairing satellites but also have obvious military and intelligence uses. Now the U.S. has responded by joining the developing arms race, which is likely to spur further competition. The space arms race now appears to be fully…

The federal government spent nearly $10 billion placing more than 100,000 federal workers on paid administrative leave for extended periods last year, a sixfold increase from two years prior driven largely by the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program aimed at encouraging feds to quit public service.A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that around 70% of that money, or $6.7 billion went to feds who opted into the DRP, a program by which agencies paid employees to stay home, in exchange for their resignation by September 2025—or December of that year, for retirement-eligible workers. While federal employees took…

As the two most powerful countries in the world today, it is incredibly important that U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington on September 24. But before that, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae of Japan is hoping to gain a meeting with Trump during her own visit to the United States for the U.N. General Assembly.  Both Trump and Takaichi are scheduled to address the General Debate in New York on September 22; as of September 17 “nothing has been decided” regarding a potential meeting, according to Takaichi.  The China-U.S. summit will have broad implications…

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Air Force Test Center is prepared to keep up with the Pentagon’s calls to buy, develop, test, and field technology quickly—but safety remains the top priority, the center’s commander said. “We always want to proceed safely forward. The work that we do, as I’ve noted, is, can be dangerous. So we don’t want to take risks that are unnecessary and unsafe. So that’s always something that we’re on the lookout for,” Brig. Gen. Mark Massaro, who leads the Air Force Test Center, told reporters during this week’s Air, Space & Cyber conference hosted by the Air and Space…

Legion advances passive sensing and targeting with US Air National Guard flight tests. Credit: Lockheed Martin Corporation. Lockheed Martin has successfully demonstrated the use of a dedicated data link between Legion infrared search-and-track (IRST) pods installed on F-16 fighter aircraft. The flight tests took place at Morris Air National Guard Base in Tucson, Arizona, in collaboration with the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve Test Center. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more As part of the demonstration, two F-16s were equipped…

On 17 September 2026, Powerus, a US-based drone technology company, announced that it had received a “limited procurement order” from Pakistan’s Ministry of Defence (MoD), as well as a strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deepen collaboration. Powerus stated that the order covers unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and associated support, and framed it as an expansion of the company’s international defence business. Powerus did not disclose the value of the order, citing confidentiality. Powerus Delegation Meets Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir at GHQ Rawalpindi The agreement follows a meeting on 16 September 2026 between a Powerus delegation – led by…

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When a massive flood hit Nepal on August 26, Nepali social media split almost immediately into two camps of grief and anger. One camp blamed the government of China, saying hundreds of Nepalis – over 1,400 as of the last count – died because the warning had simply failed. Commentators accused China of sitting on satellite and disaster monitoring data that could have bought Nepal precious minutes of warning.  A second, more painful narrative came from survivors and local officials themselves: yes, the word had reached them that flood was coming down. There simply wasn’t enough time to react before…