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1/Hostilities Resume After Tehran Allegedly Attacked a Container Ship
On Sunday, the US military has launched a new wave of attacks against Iran amid the escalating standoff over the strait of Hormuz, with Tehran saying the latest strikes had “rendered futile” all the diplomatic efforts of the past few months.
US Central Command (Centcom) said on X, “to continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz”.
via BBC
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I tracked China's GPU sector through three months of regulatory filings and IPO disclosures.
The pattern reveals what I call the Captive Market Bargain. These companies accept permanent technical lag in exchange for protected market access.https://t.co/0nzZCrJ0Jv
China's domestic markets are so competitive that they're exporting competition itself--not just products, but the entire logic of survival under extreme pressure.
New #WeekendBrief connecting four stories into one framework 👇

#WeekendBrief | Hello China Tech
Four articles. Four sectors. One pattern.
Over recent months, I’ve analyzed China’s AI regulation, content governance, and two contrasting city models. Read together, they reveal something fundamental about how China actually works.
New synthesis 👇
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China's tech giants face the same AI revolution. Opposite responses.
- Tencent: Enhance what works. Monetize now.
- Alibaba: Rebuild everything. Dominate infrastructure.
Five curated reads 👇
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Masked rioters clash with police after attacking motorists in French city of Limoges
~ Officials in Limoges on Saturday said nine officers were injured in overnight clashes with masked assailants wielding metal bars and Molotov cocktails who attacked motorists on one of the main roads into the central city.
~ The unrest came in the middle of France's summer tourism season.
~ According to officials, the violence involved between 100 and 150 masked individuals and left nine police officers injured. Law enforcement responded with tear gas and crowd-control munitions.
~ Local police union leader Laurent Nadeau described the attackers as heavily armed and organized.
Ukraine proposes fresh Peace Talks with Russia next week
~ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Security Council Secretary Rustem Umerov proposed new peace talks with Russia next week, urging faster negotiations.
~ Russia launched over 300 drones and 30 cruise missiles overnight — the highest in months, according to Zelenskyy.
~ Earlier this week, Donald Trump warned of “severe tariffs” if no peace deal is reached within 50 days.
~ President Putin reportedly wants a settlement “as soon as possible,” but the Kremlin demands Ukraine withdraw from four occupied regions as part of any deal.
Bedouins in Syria have withdrawn from Sweida
~ Armed Bedouin clans in Syria have withdrawn from the southern city of Sweida after over a week of deadly clashes.
~ The clashes between militias of the Druze religious minority and the Sunni Muslim clans killed hundreds and threatened to unravel Syria's already fragile postwar transition. Israel also launched dozens of airstrikes in the Druze-majority Sweida province, targeting government forces who had effectively sided with the Bedouins.
~ Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was more sympathetic to the Bedouins, had tried to appeal to the Druze community while remaining critical of the militias. He later urged the Bedouins to leave the city, saying that they “cannot replace the role of the state in handling the country’s affairs and restoring security.”
Saudi Megaproject, 'The Line', is being reviewed amid global scrutiny
~ Saudi Arabia’s NEOM is considering significantly cutting its workforce and relocating more than 1,000 employees to Riyadh as the kingdom tries to control costs and improve oversight of the vast new city and other developments being built on its northwestern coast, according to people familiar with the matter.

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🇺🇸Trump Issues New Tariffs on EU, Mexico🇪🇺🇲🇽
🪙President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened 30 percent tariffs on two major U.S. trading partners — the European Union and Mexico.
🪙In letters posted to Truth Social, the president said each country would face the new tariffs starting Aug. 1, though he left the door open to further talks to bring down that rate.
Kurdish PKK Militants Hand Over First Weapons After Decades of Conflict
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK, the militant Kurdish group, started to disarm with a ceremony in Iraq involving its first-handover of weapons.
🇩🇪Germany pledges Patriot air defense for Ukraine🇺🇦
Chancellor Merz has said Germany is ready to buy US-made Patriot systems for Ukraine. At the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, where he spoke, allies pledged over €10 billion for rebuilding as Zelenskyy warned of more Russian attacks.

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