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Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: China announces major rare-earth export controlsWashington and Beijing begin charging steep tit-for-tat port feesand a British espionage case involving China collapses. Sign up to receive China Brief in your inbox every Tuesday. Sign up to receive China Brief in your inbox every Tuesday. Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and to receive email correspondence from us. You may opt out at any time. Enter your email Sign Up Loading… Chinese Export Controls Put Pressure on U.S. Trade Strategy After China…
The conclusions we reach about the world are, to a large extent, influenced by our underlying intuitions. Various writers have discussed how our immediate sense of how the world works has a huge influence on how our worldviews develop. Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions posits that there are fundamentally different “visions” about the world that drive the differing worldviews we see. Following Joseph SchumpeterSowell defined a vision as a “pre-analytical cognitive act”—a sense of how things are prior to deliberate consideration. People who naturally hold what he called the constrained vision (or, in later works, the tragic vision) have…
Africa’s final round of World Cup qualifying came to a conclusion on Tuesday night with most of the final spots at next summer’s tournament finally filled. The continent’s proceedings end earlier than most, with the Africa Cup of Nations scheduled for the start of 2026. As a result, it meant teams like Senegal and Uganda had one final shot at booking their place among the best in the USA, Canada and Mexico. South Africa booked their place earlier in the day, beating Rwanda to pip Nigeria to top spot of Group C. Read on to see how the best of…
The 2025-26 NBA season tips off with uncertainty and excitement, making it the perfect time for sharp and casual bettors to explore the latest NBA odds and NBA futures. Big offseason trades, key injuries, and rising young stars have reshaped the league, setting the stage for surprises that could shake up traditional betting strategies. Whether […] The post NBA Season 2026 a Betting Outlook: Players to Watch and Prospects Analysis appeared first on TalkBasket.net.
Palisades Tahoe ski resort in Olympic Valley, California, is readying for snow as severe storms blast California. Public Relations Manager Patrick Lacey joins FOX Weather to talk about how the resort is prepping for the snow and upcoming ski season. TRUCKEE, Calif. — The first signs of winter weather arrived in the Sierra Nevada Mountains this week, as a strong storm system traveling south along the West Coast brought the first snowfall of the season, along with the season’s first Winter Storm Warning issued by the National Weather Service.According to the FOX Forecast Center, snow will pile up through Wednesday,…
by AI | 14.Oct 2025 | Europe in brief AI Belgium is getting an antenna to provide governments, businesses, and scientists access to advanced European AI factories. This was announced by the European Commission on Monday. A European supercomputer in the Slovenian Maribor (Photo: IZUM/STA) The antenna is part of an AI network that the European Union is building across the continent. This network consists of 19 so-called AI factories. It involves infrastructure that enables the processing of vast amounts of data and the development of complex algorithms. Belgium would have liked to host one of the AI factories, but…
The $20 billion swap announced by Bessent (not on US Treasury website as far as I can tell) is funded out of the Exchange Stabilization Fund. As far as I can tell, there’s no conditionality. This transaction is qualitatively different from Fed swap lines with for instand ECB and BoE wherein the Fed had access to their currencies. Hence, the swap is essentially a loan from US Treasury (i.e., you and me, American taxpaers). I want to know what’s the collateral. Hopefully, we’re not relying on the reliability of Argentina to stabilized its currency… So far, the…
World Cup – Qualification Europe6:45 PMOctober 13, 2025Group Stage – 8Cracovia Stadium. Józef PiłsudskiReferee: Sebastian Gishamer, Austria Ukraine World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Azerbaijan World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Turn off spoiler to view match statistics0.00Expected goals (xG)0.00Passing435 (86%)Accurate passes306 (81%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 12 G Anatoly Trubin 6.5 16 D Vitaliy Mykolenko 45+3′ 6.7 22 D Mykola Matviyenko (C) 7.6 13 D Ilya zabarnyi 6.7 2 D Yukhym Konoplia 7.2 18 M Yehor yarmolyuk 7.5 19 M Nazar Voloshyn 6.9 15…
The Brooklyn Nets signed guard Terry Roberts and forward Tre Scott to camp contracts. Both Roberts and Scott signed non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 contracts. Both players are expected to join the Long Island Nets for the upcoming G League season. Roberts has played for Long Island in each of the last two seasons. The 6-foot-2 guard averaged 6.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 1.5 steals for the G League Nets last season. Scott split last season between the Osceola Magic and Long Island last G League season. The 6-foot-8 forward averaged 9.8 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.2 steals over 47…
Tropical Storm Lorenzo is maintaining it’s strength, and is forecast to perform an elongated clockwise loop getting wrapped around a large high pressure rather tracking straight out to sea. Lorenzo will not threaten land.UPDATED Tuesday at 9 a.m. ET.The tropical disturbance that moved off Africa over the weekend is slowly tracking west across the tropical Atlantic. It’s quite far south and east for a system this time of year, although occasionally these systems occur.The consensus of the various computer forecasts is that the disturbance will track toward the Caribbean, arriving near the islands next Sunday or Monday. There is no…