Issue 2026-05-18
Stories
- Trump Dangles $14 B Taiwan Arms Deal as Bargaining Chip After Xi Summit
- Ukraine’s 500-km Drone Strike on Moscow Catalyzes EU-Led Peace and Air-Defense Push
- Ukraine Launches 1,000-Drone Barrage on Moscow Region, Ignites Fuel & Defense Sites
- China Pledges $17 B Annual U.S. Farm Purchases Through 2028 in Post-Trade-War Reset
- US-China Pact to Form Trade & Investment Councils and Slash Select Tariffs After Trump-Xi Summit
- Japanese Repatriation Wave: Tokyo Dumps $30B Treasuries as JGBs Hit 4%
- OpenAI Launches Plaid-Powered Account Linking for ChatGPT Pro
- Apple to Launch Standalone, Auto-Deleting Siri Chatbot in iOS 27
- Microsoft Rolls Out 'Driver Quality Initiative' and Cloud Rollback at WinHEC 2026
At a Glance
- Returning from Beijing on 15-16 May 2026, President Trump publicly withheld approval of a pending US$14 billion weapo...
- On 17 May 2026 Kyiv confirmed its drones pierced the Moscow region’s densest air-defense belt, striking fuel and tech...
- In the early hours of 17 May 2026 Kyiv sent its largest-ever wave of drones—well over a thousand—to targets 500 km in...
- Beijing committed, for the first time since the 2025 import collapse, to buy at least $17 billion of U.S. agricultura...
- On 17 May 2026 Beijing revealed that Washington and Beijing had agreed, during President Trump’s state visit, to crea...
- Between March and mid-May 2026, soaring domestic yields drove Japan’s largest quarterly sell-off of U.S. debt since 2...