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The Trump administration tried to use health funding as leverage to secure access to Zambia’s critical minerals. Zambia hasn’t rejected the deal, but it has been negotiating the terms, Marisa Lourenço reports.
The future will belong not to actors possessing the greatest capabilities, but to those most capable of integrating power across multiple domains, geographies and time horizons, Isaiah Wilson writes.
China’s bid for economic autonomy undermines its ability to curry favor with trading partners, especially in Europe, Mary Gallagher writes.
The crisis in the Gulf is not simply about whether the U.S. can defeat Iran militarily. It plainly can.
The more consequential question, Isaiah Wilson writes, is whether that kind of superiority still reliably produces the political outcomes it once did.
Any agreement to govern AI is only as strong as its least willing participant, and once one jurisdiction offers AI agents a permissive legal home, others have incentives to undercut it, WPR columnist James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social) writes.
China has learned much from Washington's de-risking playbook—tightening export controls, restricting AI talent and blocking foreign acquisitions of Chinese tech.
But as Mary Gallagher writes, separation is harder than it appears, for both sides.
In effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran recognized it could exercise asymmetric leverage by targeting the systems on which stronger powers depend. Western strategists, Isaiah Wilson III writes, have long underestimated that insight.
Bucking warnings from Anthropic that AI needs guardrails, Milei has proposed to keep the technology completely unregulated, James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social) writes.
The Trump administration has tried to use health funding as leverage to secure favorable deals with African countries. Zambia didn’t like the terms.
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One of the world’s leading AI labs called for the sector to slow its development last week. Argentina’s president responded with a proposal to keep AI completely unregulated.
James Bosworth (@bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social) writes that the contrast reveals the central geopolitical challenge ahead:
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The Trump administration has tried to use health funding as leverage to secure favorable deals with African countries. Zambia didn’t like the terms.
