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Technology
Analysis — as of 12:00 EST, 1 March 2026. This is a fast-moving, active conflict now in its third day. Casualty figures, operational claims, and damage assessments remain largely unverified. Iran continues to operate under a near-total internet blackout. Many claims originate from belligerent governments or state media under wartime
Geopolitics
The NPC Standing Committee stripped 19 lawmakers — including nine from the PLA — of their credentials on Thursday, the latest in a series of military disciplinary actions that have reshaped senior ranks across multiple service branches since 2023. --- China's National People's Congress Standing Committee announced on
East Asia
Standout: For three years, the United States has treated artificial intelligence decoupling as a unilateral policy tool—Washington controls the hardware chokepoints, Beijing scrambles to catch up. But a pattern is emerging across multiple fronts that suggests this assumption no longer holds: China is beginning to retaliate at the application
Geopolitics
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