China

India's role as China's long term counterweight in the Indo Pacific is crucial to the United States, which is currently preoccupied with its own internal changes and international obligations. The containment approach Washington has painstakingly developed over the past ten years would be undermined by a détente between Beijing and New Delhi.

The report is titled, "America's own goal: Americans are largely responsible for funding Trump's tariffs."

SpaceX activated its satellite internet, Starlink, in Iran to aid protesters in bypassing the internet ban. However, now even Starlink is being shut down, reportedly using Russian technology and Chinese research.

China, which had once enforced birth limits, is now taxing contraception, underscoring how demographic control has come full circle, from fear of too many people to anxiety over too few.