WORLD ROUNDUPAmerican Nightmare: China Is Winning the Fusion Energy Race | Russia Has a New Low-Cost Battle Strategy | How to Silence Dissent, and more

Published 23 September 2025

·  The Ultimate American Nightmare: China Is Winning the Fusion Energy Race

·  Suspected Russian Drones “Most Serious Attack on Denmark Infrastructure”

·  What Do Airport Drones Reveal About Russia’s Goading of NATO?

·  Russia Has a New Low-Cost Battle Strategy

·  How to Silence Dissent, Bit by Bit Until Fear Takes Over 

·  For Arab Nations with Ties to Israel, Attacks on Qatar and Gaza City Raise Anxiety

·  China’s Edge Over U.S. Biotech Was Never Scientific

·  Beijing’s Double Standards in the South China Sea 

·  Russia Isn’t “Influencing” Moldova’s Election 

·  Chinese Agents “Given License to Spy” on House of Commons

The Ultimate American Nightmare: China Is Winning the Fusion Energy Race  (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph)
Beijing’s Manhattan Project promises to obliterate the existing global energy order.

Suspected Russian Drones “Most Serious Attack on Denmark Infrastructure”(Marc Bennetts and Elisabeth Rushton, The Times)
Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, says the incident which disrupted flights at Copenhagen airport is linked to recent incursions in Poland and Romania.

What Do Airport Drones Reveal About Russia’s Goading of NATO?  (Marc Bennetts and Elisabeth Rushton, The Times)
Western leaders will view the incidents as part of President Putin’s campaign to check out European defenses and weaken its opponents’ resolve.

Russia Has a New Low-Cost Battle Strategy  (Yasir Atalan, Foreign Policy)
Moscow now thinks it can win the war through endless attrition.

How to Silence Dissent, Bit by Bit Until Fear Takes Over  (Li Yuan, New York Times)
In China, journalism and public debate were opening up, and then a leader took over and used a series of steps to dictate speech.

For Arab Nations with Ties to Israel, Attacks on Qatar and Gaza City Raise Anxiety  (Erika Solomon, New York Times)
The Middle Eastern states closest to Israel see the attack on Hamas officials in Qatar and the invasion of Gaza City as warning signs of potential threats to their own security.

China’s Edge Over U.S. Biotech Was Never Scientific  (Scott Gottlieb, Washington Post)
Lower the costs of development for American scientists, too.

Beijing’s Double Standards in the South China Sea  (By Derek Grossman, Foreign Policy)
Taking a lesson out of China’s playbook, Vietnam is building militarized islands.

Russia Isn’t “Influencing” Moldova’s Election  (Laura Thornton,Foreign Policy)
Moscow wants a base for infiltrating the EU and is fighting a multi-vector war to get it.

Chinese Agents “Given License to Spy” on House of Commons (Steven Swinford and Fiona Hamilton, The Times)
Failure to prosecute suspects in Westminster case opens door to foreign agents, warns the Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle.