Braving The Elements, Western Pacific Treaty Organisation, Cluster Eff

Multipolarity · Jul 13, 2023 · 56m

Can you still get your Germanium on AliExpress? After the US restricted Chinese access to high-end chips, China is looking to ban this vital chip ingredient.

So where do we go from here? Can America ban the stuff that makes Germanium? Or is this the Chinese going one step up in the chip wars?

For months, elements within NATO have been piling on the pressure to open a liaison office in Japan.

The French think that’s a terrible idea. This week, they finally exercised their veto. So as the world becomes ever-more security-centred, what happens to Western powers that aren’t in the North Atlantic?…