July 29th, 2026, in the Modern era, as the Wall Street Journal reports today’s news, the headlines are worth time-stamping as an archive — The politics (watch out for that left turn), and AI (oh open-source Anthropic), and historic wildfires in Europe (but nada about the clear and present security dangers of, uh, climate change) […]
Month: July 2026
China Goes Beyond the ‘Belt and Road’ to an AI for the World Strategy
Today, StratDem features a guest Op/Ed from Shanaka Anslem Perera. The work of Shanaka has a style and substance that roams wide and far geopolitically. The latest news on a China v. US ‘chip war’ and frontier AI competition is captured here by Shanaka… We are calling it ‘Beyond the Belt and Road‘
Senator Murphy from Connecticut Talks Hard Facts
The legal word ’emoluments’ is not often bandied about. A more common phrase is ‘time to talk turkey’, that is, ‘time to talk the hard facts’. It was time to talk turkey, ’emoluments’ and more this week as a US Senator spoke
