1月に米国の資金が打ち切られ、中国が2031年までに火星サンプルを最初に持ち帰る可能性
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35カ国以上が破壊的ASAT実験の不実施を誓約、米国は衛星妨害装置を展開、ロシアの核ASATへの懸念は継続
カスピ海横断貨物は2025年に412万トンに落ち込んだが、カザフスタンはボトルネック解消に向け世界銀行から8億4600万ドルの保証を獲得
全人代常務委員会が年間1200万人規模の雇用を目標とする独立した5カ年雇用計画を承認。同時に北京は主権平等と多国間主義を柱とする47ページのガバナンス宣言を公表した
輸入パネルへの8年間のセーフガードが2月に終了。国家安全保障に基づくポリシリコン案件が米国の太陽光サプライチェーンを再び塗り替える可能性
The Dubai M1–M3 spread collapses from ~$37 to ~$8/bbl as the war premium fades, but Aramco's lagging formula left July differentials high enough to push China's Saudi intake toward ~600,000 bpd
JKM spikes on the Iran scare and Australian strikes in early June, then falls ~15% on the month as buyers hold back ahead of summer peak
Manufacturing utilisation near a decade low, retail growth at a three-year trough, and Beijing answers with 'anti-involution', not a consumer bailout
Median-line crossings and joint air-sea patrols continue day after day while the opposition legislature keeps blocking Lai Ching-te's special defence bill
Beijing adds 10 US firms June 22; MOFCOM Announcement No. 26 (June 24, effective July 1) adds whistleblower rewards for illegal exports; Mineral Resources Law in force June 15
Megaconstellation batches and a surprise Long March 12B maiden flight push cadence to one launch every ~2.5 days
Doval and Wang Yi note 'gradual normalisation' and an 'early harvest' sectoral track even as the MEA calls CPEC infrastructure in the China-held Shaksgam Valley 'illegal and invalid'
Chinese and Philippine vessels manoeuvre within ~90m off Scarborough Shoal on 23 June, days after Beijing's floating platform and buoys reopened the standoff
CGTN broadcast the first public test launch of the DF-17 hypersonic glide vehicle on June 22; the Liaoning carrier strike group concluded a 40-day South China Sea and Western Pacific campaign the same day
Modi inducts INS Dunagiri, Sanshodhak and Agray as a marker of self-reliant defence, and an answer to PLAN's Indian Ocean push
The Liaoning carrier group concluded a 40-day deployment June 22; a rare PLA Navy-AFP Navy standoff at Scarborough Shoal June 20; China's CCG Regulation No. 3 took effect June 15
Every EU member now runs a deficit with Beijing; leaders weigh a 'menu' of trade measures
Lutnick alleges EUV-related components and transport gear reached China; ASML insists no system or EUV-specific part was ever delivered, as BIS enforcement looms
Treasury names front companies relabelling Iranian LPG as Omani to move millions of barrels to South and East Asia
21-gun salute for Min Aung Hlaing, a 'shared future' joint statement, RMB–kyat settlement and Kyaukpyu, Beijing legitimises a ballot that barred the opposition
China's lead foundry scales N+2 output for Ascend 910C/910D as Huawei targets ~600k dies; HBM and yields, not lithography, are now the bottleneck
A January 2026 congressional report calls the ~16,000-vessel fleet a coordinated state instrument; Japan funds drone surveillance off South America
Mexico dodged Trump's reciprocal tariffs; now the July 1 joint review turns on whether it can keep China out of North America's supply chain
The self-styled Beijing critic extends the active yuan swap tranche for 12 months as Washington presses Buenos Aires to cut financial ties
Ship-to-ship transfers and AIS-spoofing tankers keep breaching the petroleum cap a vetoed UN body once policed
Beijing investigates memory pricing, fines could reach $2.5B, while domestic champion CXMT files for a $4.2B IPO and nears third-largest by wafer capacity
Beijing schedules all INCB-listed precursors and adds export controls; Washington indicts six PRC nationals over chemicals sent to a Gulf Cartel network
Huida claims first CRISPR injected into a human brain; YolTech's LNP edit becomes China's first in-vivo gene-editing drug in trials
Beijing pulls Kim back into orbit after Russia's courtship, 'good neighbour, good friend, good comrade', and silence on the bomb
Qianfan jumps back ahead at 182 to Guowang's ~168–190; two constellations planning 28,000+ spacecraft
After the Supreme Court voided IEEPA tariffs, Section 301 becomes the new, uncapped lever against China, India, the EU and dozens more
DeepSeek and Qwen keep open models near-frontier and cheap; Meta and Alibaba keep their best tiers proprietary
Qwen3.7-Max and the cheaper Qwen3.7-Plus agent variant are proprietary; the open Qwen 3.6 line stays on Apache 2.0
After a year of bans and reversals, the US approved limited H200 sales, then Beijing told firms to pause and pushed Huawei instead
Reuters finds 80+ launch pads, bunkers and octagon command sites near the Hami ICBM silos
Shenzhou 23 takes over with China's first yearlong stay; a Pakistani astronaut due on Shenzhou 24
Data-center revenue ~$72.8bn; Vera Rubin ramps to full production by fall; guidance assumes zero China data-center compute, and the stock still slid
QatarEnergy targets H2 2026 for the first North Field East mega-train, the start of a path from 77 to 142 MTPA by 2030
V4-Pro at 1.6T params (49B active) and V4-Flash at 284B, both 1M-context, released open-weight on Hugging Face
EU starts Galileo Gen-2 launches; China consolidates BeiDou to 37 satellites and eyes global adoption
A decade after Modi vowed to quarantine Pakistan, Islamabad signs minerals and crypto deals with Trump's circle and an 'all-weather' upgrade with Xi, and India is left protesting from the sidelines
Crewless USVs patrol, detect and box in an intruder with limited operator input, Beijing's answer to US naval autonomy
Jensen Huang says orders are in and manufacturing is 'restarting'; BIS revised the license policy, but as of mid-2026 only a small number of H200s have actually shipped
Akkuyu, Rooppur and two Chinese units are slated to come online, defending a $206bn order book as Western financing and equipment routes close
US holds 42% of exports; Germany overtakes China; Ukraine is the world's top arms importer
The MNDAA's seizure of Kutkai from former ally the TNLA marks the Brotherhood Alliance's collapse under Beijing's border pressure; the KIA's grip on rare-earth mines near China buys it a longer leash
Beijing says the US and Russia must cut their far larger arsenals first before China sits at any table
Anti-corruption probes, contract delays and a Pakistan buying collapse drag Chinese sales to a 15-year low
Global grid-scale storage adds hit records into 2026 with China taking over half; the US trails by an order of magnitude
China's overseas corridor programme posts record deal value as it pivots from megaports to energy, critical minerals and 'small but smart' projects
The UHV programme aims to lift cross-provincial transfer capacity ~35% and move renewable power east, even as curtailment persists in the resource-rich west
Cable No. 3 broke ~2.64km off Dongyin in April 2026; Chunghwa Telecom switched 1,500 residents to microwave links as a court jailed a Chinese captain over an earlier cut
Water-ice hunt at Shackleton with a shadow-diving hopper; Long March 10, Mengzhou and Lanyue in testing