WORLD ROUNDUPChina Is Already Pulling Ahead on the Next Energy Supply Chain | South Asia’s Water Wars | F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It, and more
· A Flood of Green Tech from China Is Upending Global Climate Politics
· China Is Already Pulling Ahead on the Next Energy Supply Chain
· F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
· Special Counsel Indicts Former South Korean President on New Charges
· A Syrian Village and the Long Road to the White House
· Latin America’s Disjointed Reaction to Trump’s Drug Boat War
· South Asia’s Water Wars
· Why Don’t B-1 Lancer Bombers Carry Nuclear Weapons Anymore?
A Flood of Green Tech from China Is Upending Global Climate Politics (Somini Sengupta and Brad Plumer, New York Times)
At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.
China Is Already Pulling Ahead on the Next Energy Supply Chain (Jane Nakano and Mathias Zacarias, Foreign Policy)
Low-emission hydrogen is quickly becoming the latest frontier for geoeconomic competition.
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It (Adam Goldman, New York Times)
The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.
Special Counsel Indicts Former South Korean President on New Charges (Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post)
Special prosecutors accused ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol of attempting to goad North Korea into conflict as a pretext for declaring martial law in December 2024.
A Syrian Village and the Long Road to the White House (Roger Cohen, New York Times)
In 2019, President Trump sent U.S. commandos to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of the Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will take another step to strengthen his alliance with the White House.
Latin America’s Disjointed Reaction to Trump’s Drug Boat War (John Haltiwanger, Foreign Policy)
The region is facing historic levels of fragmentation, one expert said.
South Asia’s Water Wars (Economist)
Climate change and rising energy demand could worsen conflict over rivers.
Why Don’t B-1 Lancer Bombers Carry Nuclear Weapons Anymore? (Harrison Kass, National Interest)
The United States voluntarily de-nuclearized its B-1 bombers in the 1990s in accordance with the START I treaty with Russia—but it gained much from the move as well.
