Under The Radar: News Articles of the Week – 10th January 2023
General Geopolitics
Twitter Files - The New Twitter Bombshell
Trends That Will Define The Coming Years
Is Japan's New National Security Strategy A Paradigm Shift?
Armenia Needs Alternatives to Russia and Iran
South Korea's Indo-Pacific Strategy Broadens Focus From Northern Threat
Sweden's Massive Opportunity to Rethink Its Role in Nordic Defence
Romania Buys Naval Strike Missile Coastal Batteries In $217M Deal
Iran Building Drone Aircraft Carrier from Converted Merchant Ship
Ivory Coast Troops Return Home After Months of Captivity in Mali
Are The Presidents of Turkey and Syria About to Meet?
North Korea's Nuclear Threat: Too Great To Deter
Shots Fired In Tense Greece-Turkey Patrol Boat Ramming Incident
Unanswered Questions About North Korean Leadership
Iran's First Carrier Expected To Be Launched In 2023
2023 Annual Forecast - Stratfor
The EU's Shifting Balance of Power
US Geopolitics
How 2022 Ended The American Unipolar Era
Navy Shipyard Optimisation Must Include A Digital Backbone
Following Increased Air Force Interest, Navy Buys Its Own Valkyrie Drones
Destroyer Makes First US Warship Taiwan Strait Transit of 2023
Overview of Department of Defence Maintenance Depots
Pentagon Halts F-35 Deliveries Pending Results of Texas Fighter Crash Investigation
US Navy Fleet Tracker 3rd January 2023
Chinese Geopolitics
China Unveils Surprising New Weapon In Information War Against The West
Chinese Changing Approach to Private Sector Growth
China Tops US In Defence-Related Satellites Orbited In 2022
Chinese Liaoning Carrier Strike Group Now in East China Sea, PLA Drones Operating Near Japan
Chinese Navy Fighter Flew Within 20 Feet of US Air Force Plane Over South China Sea
Russian, Chinese Naval Exercise Wraps in East China Sea
Excitement as China Opens Border to Quarantine-Free Travel
Why We Shouldn’t Underestimate China's Petro-Yuan Ambitions
China-Japan Ties: Past The Point of No Return Amid Tokyo's Military Build-ups
South Asia's Inflation Woes Set To Deepen As China Ends Zero-COVID Policy
The First Battle of The Next War: Wargaming A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
Further Expansion of China's Nuclear Submarine Shipyard
Will Chinese Efforts To Internationalize The Yuan Succeed
China, Philippines Cement Ties In New Year
Xi Congratulates Lula On Inauguration as Brazilian President
Russia-Ukraine Geopolitics
BlackRock Plots to Buy Ukraine
US Moving Bioweapons Research Out of Ukraine into Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Ukraine War Why The Optimists Might Be Correct
From Washington, Berlin, and Paris, A Sudden Influx of Armor Bound For Ukraine
US Sending Ukraine Sea Sparrow Missiles In Latest Aid Package
Russian Navy Commissions Ballistic Missile Sub, 2 Surface Warships
Fighting Goes On Despite Russian "Truce" In Ukraine
Wagner Boss Says He Wants Bakhmut in Ukraine For Its "Underground Cities"
Russian Hackers Targeted US Nuclear Scientists
Putin Declares "American World Order" Is Ending, A Truly Multipolar World Has Begun
Russia to Mobilize an Extra 500,000 Conscripts This Month, Ukraine Says
Belarus Lukashenko Visits Russian Troops, Declares "Common Cause"
Russia Adds Even More Anti-Maritime Drone Defences In Sevastopol
Financial Markets
BoJ Conducts Emergency Bond Buying on Friday
China Lifts Ban On Irish Beef Imports, Reopening Multimillion-Euro Market
Jack Ma To Cede Control of Ant Group
How Ghana Ended Up In Economic Turmoil
Pakistan's Army Chief Visits Saudi Arabia Amid Economic Crisis
India's Central Bank Governor Warns of South Asian Debt Distress
Euro Zone Inflation Rate Slides to 9.2% As Energy Price Surge Cools
Spending On Holiday Items Dropped 3.4% In 2022, Led By Lower-Income Households
Samsung Profits Plunge 69% As Global Chip Demand In Full-Fledged Ice Age
Pakistan's Finance Minister To Meet IMF In Geneva, With Bailout Stalled
Emerging Markets Outlook 2023: Who Burns Brightest Among Rising Stars
ISM Services Plunges 6.9 Points into Contraction, another Recession Warning
Tunisia President Sacks Trade Minister Amid Economic Crisis
Africa's 2023 Economic Outlook
Cryptocurrencies
The Significance of Bitcoin For State Powers
NFT Marketplace SuperRare Cuts 30% of Staff
Crypto Is Ringing In The New Year With New Lawsuits and New Chaos
Mysterious Antennas Found In Utah's Hills; Some Speculate "Decentralised" Blockchain Network
SBF Seeks Access To $450 Million In Seized Robinhood Shares To Pay His Legal Fees
91% of Cryptos From 2014 Have Died
US Trustee Files Objection To FTX's Planned Asset Sales
Which Historic Bubble Is Most Like The Crypto Bubble
Energy
Top 5 Exploration Prospects of 2023
Largest US Refinery Back Up and Running
US Oil, Gas Rig Activity Dips In First Count of the New Year
Europe Imports of US Diesel Gasoline To Hit 2-Year High
Norway Replaces Russia As Germany's Top Gas Supplier
Azerbaijan Sees Oil and Gas Revenues Grow Significantly In 2022
India Boosts Imports of Russia's Arctic Oil
France's Nuclear Power Output Rises, Easing European Energy Woes
Andurand: Oil Prices Could Exceed $140 If China's Economy Fully Reopens
A Big CES 2023 Trend: All Battery Power, Everywhere, All The Time
Germany, Norway Want To Tie The Knot With New Hydrogen Pipeline
Media Blackout Over Terror Incident At Vegas Power Plant
White House Delays Refill of Strategic Oil Reserve, Balks At "Too Expensive" Offers
Taliban and Chinese Firm Sign Historic Afghan Oil Extraction Deal
US NatGas Prices Slide To 18-Month Low On Warm Spell; Some Models Forecast Cold Blast In Weeks
Solar Panel Material Price Plunges Amid Gluts
China Expands South China Sea Gas Field With Eye On Energy Transition
Nigeria: Government to Finance Fuel Subsidy Through Mid-2023
China Partially Lifts Australian Coal Ban
Equinor Mulling £1.2bn Move For Suncor UK North Sea Assets, According to Reports
Shell Expects $2bn Hit From UK and EU Windfall Tax
Tokyo Gas Nears $4.6bn Deal To Buy US Shale Driller Rockcliff
Water
Low Water Levels Have Created An Energy Crisis At The World's Largest Dam
Perils of Water Wars in Central Asia
Between India and China, A River At The Centre of Power Politics
How Rapid Urbanisation in Africa Compounds Water Challenges
California's Central Valley Groundwater Disappearing At Alarming Rate
Israeli Plan To Top Up Sea of Galilee With Desalinated Water
Thailand's EV Push May Worsen Water Shortages In The East
Jobs
Burned By Layoffs, Tech Workers Are Rethinking Risk
Labour Trends in 2023: Over-Employment, Fatigue, and Hope
US Nonfarm Payrolls Rose 223,000 in December, As Strong Jobs Market Tops Expectations
Housing
Canada Bans Most Foreigners From Buying Residential Property
S&P Corelogic Case-Shiller Index Continued To Decline In October (December Lagged Reading)
China: Beijing Considers Change to Key Policy on Real Estate Debt
Los Angeles-Orange County Homebuying Plummets 44% to Record Low
Politics
Kevin McCarthy Elected Republican US House Speaker But At A Cost
McCarthy Pledges to Tackle Immigration, "Woke" School Policies and IRS Funding
Macron Announces Investments in French Health Sector
Fourteen Candidates Join Race For Cyprus Presidency in February Vote
Thousands of Israelis Protest Against Netanyahu's New Government
Iran Executes Two More Men In Cases Linked to Ongoing Protests
Peru Anti-Government Protesters Clash With Police in Puno
Myanmar's Military Holds Election Talks With Armed Ethnic Groups
What To Expect From The Government In 2023
Technology
Another Company Stops Working On Smart Contact Lenses
Despite Challenges, Netflix Says Its Ad Tier Is Doing Well
Tesla Slashes Model 3, Model Y Prices In China For Second Time In Three Months
Tesla Owners Flood Chinese Showrooms To Protest Sharp Price Cuts
Twitch Experiences An Outage For The Second Time In A Week
EU Tech Policy Predictions: What To Expect In 2023
How The EU Plans To Take On Big Tech In 2023
The Most Mind-Blowing Neural Stories of 2022
What To Expect From AI In 2023
Is The DMA The Real AI Regulation
China Cracks Down on Social Media Criticism of COVID Policies
NASA Crashes eVTOL Flying Air Taxi
Shenzhen Creates New International Trading Exchange For Chips, Electronics
What's Next For Quantum Computing
What's Next For The Chip Industry
Other
European Construction Industry Under Pressure
How To Live Off The Grid As A Techie
Brazilian Amazon Deforestation Up 150% In Bolsonaro's Last Month
BioNTech Says It Will Start Cancer Vaccine Trials in The UK From September
FDA Approves Alzheimer's Drug That Slowed Cognitive Decline in Clinical Trial
2022 Box Office Is Still 33% Shy of Pre-Pandemic Levels
NYC Subway Crime Spikes 30% Despite Beefed-Up Transit Patrols
Most Important Science Headlines of 2022
Flexport CEO Warns Container Shipping In "Great Recession"
January Temperature Records Smashed Across Europe
Once In A Century Flood Cuts Off Communities In North-western Australia
California Storm Leaves Over 560,000 Homes Without Power, More Rough Weather Ahead
Space Mining Start-ups See A Rich Future On Asteroids And The Moon
Coast Is Almost Clear As Port Congestion Fades Further
Aurora Approaches Autonomous Truck Finish Line