Category Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries

Gene Editing’s Climate Revolution: How CRISPR is Creating Climate-Proof Crops and Animals

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As climate change accelerates, transforming global agricultural landscapes with unprecedented heat waves, prolonged droughts, and increasingly erratic weather patterns, scientists are turning to one of the most powerful tools in modern biology to secure our food future: CRISPR gene editing.…...

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The New Gold Rush: Inside the Global Race to Build Humanoid Robots

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For much of the last century, humanoid robots belonged firmly to the realm of science fiction—icons like the ever-polite C-3PO or the menacing T-800 shaped our imagination more than reality ever could. Yet today, the line between fiction and reality…...

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The Dragon’s Light: China’s Reshaping of the Global Photonics Landscape

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A Looming Transformation The global photonics market—estimated to reach $376 billion in core component revenues by 2025—is undergoing a profound realignment. Once led by Western and Japanese industry titans, this $2.5 trillion photonics-enabled economy is now being rapidly reoriented around…...

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Building the Unhackable Internet: How Quantum Networks Are Going Global

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For decades, the promise of absolute data security has been the holy grail of cybersecurity. That promise is now being realized not in lines of code, but in the fundamental laws of physics. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is moving from…...

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Threat of stealthy, smart and lethal sea mines driving development of new mine countermeasure platforms and systems

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Beneath the waves lurks one of the oldest and most potent asymmetric threats in naval warfare: the sea mine. But the mines of today are not the simple contact explosives of World War II. They have evolved into stealthy, smart,…...

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Tech War: An Analysis of the Role of Military Technologies in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, which initially erupted in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, has escalated dramatically since February 2022 when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite Russia’s significant qualitative and quantitative advantages, Ukraine’s armed forces have mounted…...

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The New Biotech Arms Race: How AI, CRISPR, and Great Power Competition Are Redefining National Security

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Introduction: The Dual-Edged Sword of Biotechnology Biotechnology—the harnessing of cellular and molecular processes for technological innovation—has entered a new and disruptive era. From CRISPR gene editing to AI-driven drug discovery, breakthroughs in synthetic biology, genomics, and bioinformatics are reshaping medicine,…...

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China’s Quantum Satellites: Forging a Global Cybersecurity Frontier with Space-Based Unhackable Communication Networks

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In today’s world, where cyber threats are growing in sophistication and critical infrastructures face unprecedented vulnerabilities, secure communication has become a matter of national and global security. The advent of quantum computing further heightens this urgency, as conventional encryption methods…...

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China’s Shijian-19: A New Era in Reusable Satellites and Space-Based Innovation

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China has taken another bold step in its rapidly advancing space program with the successful launch of the Shijian-19 satellite, a reusable spacecraft designed to support cutting-edge research in space breeding and critical technology demonstrations. Launched aboard a Long March…...

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The Ultimate Power Source: The Global Race to Build Space Solar Farms

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The quest for limitless, clean energy has found a new frontier: space. As the world grapples with climate change and the urgent need to decarbonize, a revolutionary technology is moving from science fiction to strategic reality. Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP)…...

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