This page tracks the main US rules that limit China’s access to advanced chips, AI accelerators and chipmaking equipment. It starts with the October 2022 package and runs to the guidance Washington…
Subject type: State-owned enterprise, naval and commercial shipbuilding Jurisdiction: People’s Republic of China Also known as: China Shipbuilding Group, 中国船舶集团有限公司 File opened: 14 September 2026 Last…
Nobody ties a bracelet on your wrist at the bottom of the Sacré-Coeur steps because they want €10 for a bracelet. They want your hand occupied and your eyes down for four seconds while somebody else…
Every metre of Italian beach below the high-water mark belongs to the state. It’s demanio marittimo, public property, and the law says you can walk to the sea and swim in it without paying anyone…
Start with my conflict. I hold semiconductor and AI infrastructure positions, which means a calm story about AI is worth money to me and a frightening one isn’t. Take that into account for everything…
Seven items from the past fortnight, all of them assembled from public data. Three of them describe activity that is falling while the pressure behind it rises, which is the harder pattern to write…
The most consequential development of the weekend for Israel happened about 1,000 kilometres away, in the Hejaz. Saudi Arabia shut its East-West pipeline on Friday after a drone attack on the line and…
The stated cause of today’s move is clean enough. Dario Amodei argued for a slower pace of frontier development, Sam Altman backed the idea of pacing, and AI-linked semiconductors sold off through…
Heaven has a numbers problem. Hardly anyone passes the entrance exam any more, intake has dried up, and management is close to writing the whole century off. Hell has the opposite trouble, which is…
A fortnight of coverage doesn’t usually resolve into a single argument, and this one doesn’t either. What it does have is a repeated shape. In nearly every story worth reading this month, something…