Geopolitics & Policy
Geopolitics & Policy news — Tuesday 03 November 2026
7 stories from 2 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Why a midterm mauling for Trump will not bring Asia trade relief
South China Morning Post Tech
Since returning to the White House in January last year, US President Donald Trump has upended the global trading order with his scattergun approach to tariffs and launched a war on Iran that sent oil prices soaring. On Tuesday, American…
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Spanish police dismantle Madrid housing protest camp ahead of snap election
South China Morning Post Tech
Police on Tuesday dismantled a sprawling tent camp in Madrid which had spearheaded protests over Spain’s housing crisis for more than a month and prompted early elections, police and activists said. Officers closed off much of the Spanish…
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Quantum’s Quietest Branch: A Case for Magnetometry
War on the Rocks
After an F-15E went down in Operation Epic Fury, the weapons systems officer landed injured, behind enemy lines, and with a bounty on his head. CIA Director John Ratcliffe analogized locating him to finding a “grain of sand in the middle…
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Humanity’s Promethean Gap with AI
War on the Rocks
Frontier AI systems are beginning to test the limits of human oversight, while the companies developing them retain considerable power to define the risks and the terms of their scrutiny. In security and defense, the stakes are…
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Xi Jinping meets foreign leaders: tracker, October 2026
South China Morning Post Tech
Chinese President Xi Jinping met four foreign leaders in October – two each from Africa and Europe – with the month dominated by the Communist Party Central Committee’s fifth plenum. The pace will probably pick up in November. Xi has…
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New York state reports first measles-linked death in over 30 years
South China Morning Post Tech
The New York State Department of Health said on Monday that a child in Lewis County had died in connection with an ongoing measles outbreak, marking the state’s first known measles-associated death in more than 30 years. Last month…
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Learjet may have broken up before crashing in Florida, investigators say
South China Morning Post Tech
The National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday a Learjet 60 that crashed on Sunday in a residential area in Palm Beach County, Florida, killing all nine people on board, may have broken up before hitting the ground at high…