Issue 2025-12-19
Stories
- U.S. Floats Article-5-Style Pact as Ukraine Drops NATO Bid in Berlin Peace Talks
- EU Shelves Russian-Asset Scheme, Opts for €90 B Budget-Backed Loan to Ukraine
- Trump Green-lights Record $11.1 B Arms Package to Taiwan
- China Activates Island-wide Special Customs Regime in Hainan Free Trade Port
- ByteDance Cuts Deal to Spin Off TikTok US Days Before Ban Trigger
- India and Oman Seal CEPA Granting Near-Total Duty-Free Market Access
- China Completes Secret EUV Lithography Prototype in Shenzhen
- Senate Green-lights Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator After Withdrawal Saga
- OpenAI Releases GPT Image 1.5, Turbo-Charging ChatGPT’s Visual Workspace
At a Glance
- During 14-15 Dec 2025 meetings in Berlin, Washington offered Kyiv time-limited, Senate-ratified Article 5-like securi...
- After 14-hour talks at the 18-19 Dec 2025 summit, EU leaders dropped the plan to leverage €210 bn in frozen Russian r...
- On 18 Dec 2025 Washington formally notified Congress of an $11.1 billion, eight-item weapons sale to Taiwan, the isla...
- On 18 Dec 2025 Beijing flipped the switch on Hainan’s full “first-line open, second-line controlled” customs system,...
- On 19 Dec 2025 ByteDance signed binding agreements to place 50 % of TikTok’s U.S. business into a new joint venture w...
- On 18 Dec 2025 in Muscat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sultan Haitham bin Tarik concluded a Comprehensive Economi...