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Jul 16 2026 
China’s mid-year report is not only ‘scorecard,’ but also ‘call to action’: Global Times editorial
Staff members from a local NEV enterprise catch up on orders on the production line in Ganzhou, East China’s Jiangxi Province on December 26, 2023
Global Times – Opinion
China’s economic and social development miracle has been forged by overcoming adversity. China is not only fully capable of meeting its full-year development targets, but will also continue… Continue reading -
Jul 16 2026 
Iran warns of wider regional strikes if US targets its infrastructure
Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters
Al Mayadeen
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters warned the US that attacks on Iranian infrastructure would trigger strikes on regional infrastructure and reaffirmed the Strait of Hormuz as a red line.
Iran warned on Thursday that it would destroy infrastructure across the region if the United States… Continue reading -
Jul 16 2026 
‘No trace left’: Iran vows to wipe out US assets across region if Trump acts on new threats
The Cradle
The warning follows fresh IRGC responses to US strikes on Iran, and comes after Trump renewed threats to destroy power plants and bridges in the country
The Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces released a statement on 16 July warning Washington that “no trace” of its infrastructure across the region will be… Continue reading -
Jul 15 2026 
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Jul 15 2026 
Kremlin briefing covers US sanctions plans against Russia, Baltic ‘fearmongering’
TASS Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov
Dmitry Peskov revealed that Moscow had… Continue reading
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Jul 14 2026 
Iran War 3.0
Strategic Culture – Alastair Crooke … Continue reading
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Jul 14 2026 
Digital Sovereignty: The Global South’s Predicament and How to Measure It
Digital space is now national territory – and most of the Global South neither owns it nor can measure how much it is losing. A new index puts numbers to the dispossession.
On 4 September 2025, the Nepalese government made a decision: ban twenty-six international internet platforms from operating in the country, including Facebook, X (formerly… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
China rejects joint hype over South China Sea Arbitral Award 10 years after, urges relevant countries to stop stirring up trouble
Global Times
China’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a statement in response to a joint statement by some countries, including the US, Australia, the UK, Japan and the Philippines, on the 10th anniversary of the so-called Arbitral Award on the South China Sea, reiterating that China does not accept or recognize the illegal arbitral award and… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
“Center of Gravity Has Moved”: African Literature Has Broken Free of Western Validation, Scholar
Sputnik – Africa
A growing number of contemporary African writers are rejecting Western literary gatekeepers to prioritize their own lived experiences and local nuances. This deliberate pivot, argues a scholar, is actively reshaping the continent’s literary authority.
Some African writers and scholars argue that African literature has often been read through expectations that it explain the continent’s… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable
Charles Hugh Smith
Let’s pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users’ costs.
What’s already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
How the West Deliberately Trapped Africa in Debt and Why BRICS Is the Only Chance for Salvation
New Eastern Outlook
The Washington Consensus vs. African Lives: 50 Years of Robbery Under the Guise of Loans.“Forgiven” Debts vs. “Dead” Economies: The Anatomy of Western Deception
For many decades, the West, led by the United States, has been putting on a farce for Africa called “humanitarian aid and development.” Official Washington, London, and Paris have been… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
Why a US Senator’s Anti-China Campaign Ad Backfired So Remarkably
Illustration: Liu Xiangya/GT
Global Times – OpinionRecently, US Senator Marsha Blackburn’s attempt to win over voters in her bid for governor of Tennessee with an anti-China campaign ad backfired remarkably.
In the ad, the Tennessee senator sits in what appears to be a Chinese restaurant, declares that she will “stop Communist China and protect Tennessee land,” and… Continue reading
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Jul 12 2026 
While the West talks isolation, Lavrov solidifies ties
RT – Africa
Moscow’s diplomatic engagements across Africa have entered systematic working mode
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s latest Africa tour is significant – but not because it is a one-of-a-kind event. Quite the opposite – such trips have become routine for Russian diplomacy, which is precisely what makes them meaningful. While the West continues to talk… Continue reading -
Jul 10 2026 
Beware the ‘Trojan horse’ lurking in the era of AI: Global Times editorial
Global Times
In the era of artificial intelligence (AI), the security of development tools is directly tied to a country’s digital sovereignty. The Claude Code incident has emerged as the “Trojan horse” of the AI era. It has once again sounded the alarm: There can be no genuine security without independent and controllable capabilities across the… Continue reading
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