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Curated by Juan Ortiz Freuler -Sept 16- Sign up to access internal updates and to receive the newsletter via email 🧭[News: Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit: a show of unity among eastern emerging powers] “SCO was established by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and later expanded to include India, Iran, Pakistan and Belarus. Afghanistan…

Curated by Juan Ortiz-Freuler – August 10th – Sign up to mailing list 🔀🇰🇷[NEWS- South Korea launches sovereign AI plan…and Non-Aligned services?] “South Korea has tasked some of its biggest companies and promising startups to build a national foundational AI model using mainly domestic technology, in a rare move to keep the country apace with…

Curated by Juan Ortiz-Freuler – July 10th, 2025 🇺🇸 🇪🇺[NEWS: US Sanctions lockout the International Criminal Court from their email?) US announces sanctions targeting International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague (Feb 6):  “The ICC has no jurisdiction over the United States or Israel, as neither country is party to the Rome Statute or…

Curated by Juan Ortiz-Freuler – June 17 – Sign-up here 🇨🇳💨🇺🇸 [NEWS: Trump effects-> China more popular than US] “The 2025 Democracy Perception Index summarizes attitudes toward democracy, geopolitics and global power players, and canvassed more than 110,000 respondents across 100 countries.A majority of people surveyed had an overall negative perception of the U.S., marking…

May 15 / Curated by Juan Ortiz-Freuler 🇺🇸🌍[NEWS: Trump Tech deals in the middle east: U$2T in deals (ref: US government yearly budget is around U$ 6T)] “Trump had set clear expectations, telling reporters in March that his hosts needed to “pay $1 trillion to American companies” over four years to secure his visit. “Last…

April 13, 2025 / Curated by Juan Ortiz-Freuler Sign up here to get the NATM newsletter in your inbox! 🇪🇺 [News – EU autonomy discourse accelerating] ““The discussion on strategic autonomy in Europe has accelerated a lot due to the events of the last weeks,” said Brando Benifei, chair of the European Parliament’s committee on…

March 13, 2025 🌎[NEWS -Emerging powers hopeful with emerging multi-polarity] Munich Security Conference Report: https://securityconference.org/assets/02_Dokumente/01_Publikationen/2025/MSR_2025/Multipolarization_%E2%80%93_Munich_Security_Report_2025.pdf 🇺🇸[NEWS – Google might still get broken up in the US] “Google could lose Chrome as the Department of Justice doubles down on its antitrust demands..reaffirmed its demand that Google must sell Chrome and stop paying companies to make Google…

February 16, 2025 🇨🇳 [News: China’s Trump strategy] “making the domestic economy more resilient, reconciling with key neighbors, and deepening relationships in the global South.”  https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-trump-strategy 🇺🇸📣[NEWS – US Worldview shift?] Sec. of State Marco Rubio acknowledging or decreeing the end of the unipolar world:  ‘It’s not normal for the world to simply have a…

January 13, 2025 🇨🇳🌎🇺🇸 [News: Trump, China and the three dollars problem] “For more than a decade now, many developing countries have grappled with the problem of having their financial cycles determined in Washington even as critical components of their real cycle — commodity demand and prices, for example — are determined in Beijing. A…

December 2, 2024 🌎🇺🇸 [News: Trump, China and Latin America] ““[Trump’s] tough rhetoric would pile pressure on Latin American countries to curb China’s presence, while Beijing would have an incentive to double down, leaving domestic politics in the region deeply divided”” https://www.ft.com/content/b9cfdae3-c276-4184-adbb-707c5e460fa7  🇺🇸🇨🇳[News: US Chips pressure] “The update, if accurate, shows the Biden administration is…