In recent weeks, China and the United States have intensified their struggle for control over the rare earth minerals market — a group of 17 chemically similar elements that are crucial for manufacturing many high-tech products. They are used in computer hard drives, smartphones, military defense systems, LED lights, electric car motors, and jet engines. In 2024, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated that China accounts for about 61% of rare earth production and 92% of its...

An additional argument supporting the thesis that China is not close of replacing the United States as the world's No. 1 power is the fact that the best scientists continue to go to the United States. The 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to malaria researcher Tu Youyou is the only Nobel Prize in science that China has ever won. Despite the stratospheric investments that the Chinese government has made in science since the 1990s, in the last ten years (2016-2025), China has not received a...

The agreement between Hamas and Israel is now a reality, although there are still many uncertainties about its final content. The agreement was organized by Trump and approved by most of the Muslim countries allied with the Palestinian cause (Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank). The first thing that will happen is: -Hamas will hand over the approximately 20 Israeli hostages who are still alive, and the 20-30 bodies of the hostages who...