Category: Technology

Technology / Science / The Future

 by Jaffa Levy

Starlink, China, and the Night Sky: What the UN Complaints Did and Did Not Change

China’s 2021 notification to the United Nations about near-misses involving Starlink satellites prompted diplomatic exchange but no enforcement action. Separately, astronomers have raised growing concerns about Starlink’s impact on the night sky through orbital light pollution. Together, the two disputes expose a widening gap between rapidly expanding private satellite networks and a space law framework built for a quieter age.

Defence / Britain / Europe / Middle East / Opinion / Russia / The Future / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

If You Want to See What Comes Next in 2026, Watch the Insurance Market

War is no longer disrupting global trade. It is being written into the contracts and insurance frameworks that make trade possible. As war risk pricing, listed areas, and standard charterparty clauses harden into routine procedure, conflict becomes a toll. Watch the insurance market, not the speeches. It signals what the world is normalising.

Defence / China / Geopolitics / Technology

 by Jaffa Levy

Jiutian and the Geometry of Reach: China’s High Altitude Drone Carrier Across the Himalayas and the Pacific

China’s Jiutian high-altitude unmanned aircraft is not a superweapon, but it alters the geometry of airpower. By operating above terrain and distance constraints, it pressures two theatres at once: the Himalayan frontier and the Western Pacific. The real issue is not penetration, but cost, persistence, and defensive arithmetic.

Technology / China / World

 by Jaffa Levy

China Is Not Building Ports Now It Is Building the Rules

China’s next Silk Road is not concrete but code. By shaping global standards in 6G, digital payments and satellite connectivity, Beijing is embedding sovereignty at the protocol level creating power that is harder to sanction, harder to unwind, and already in place before crises erupt.

China / Technology / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

America Is Fighting an AI Race That China Is Not Running

Washington increasingly frames artificial intelligence as a single decisive race toward general intelligence. China’s strategy points elsewhere. The danger is not building AI, but locking policy into a worst case narrative that turns uncertainty into irreversible escalation.

Technology / China

 by Jaffa Levy

China’s Space Yearender Is Not About Space. It Is About Industrial Sovereignty

Xinhua’s space yearender reads like a science roundup, but it is really a capability statement. Space is the cleanest theatre for showing state capacity because reality does not accept spin. The signal is industrial sovereignty: build, test, fail, fix, repeat. Reusable rockets and deep space missions are not romance. They are proof of institutions that can plan beyond the next cycle

Technology / Law

 by Jaffa Levy

Telegram Is Becoming a Pocket State and Governments Are Responding Like It Is One

Telegram is no longer just a messaging app. At a billion user scale, it behaves like a pocket jurisdiction with its own rules, enforcement, and political gravity. That is why France targeted Pavel Durov personally, why Europe is tightening platform law, and why the next regulatory fight is not about content. It is about sovereignty, evidence, and who governs the network.

Technology / China

 by Jaffa Levy

What Western Headlines Get Wrong About China’s “Bypass” of Chip Export Controls

Western headlines claim China is bypassing chip export controls. A close reading of Chinese and Taiwanese sources tells a different story: slow progress, rising costs, and no proven evidence of illicit upgrades. This analysis separates verifiable fact from allegation and explains what China’s DUV based strategy actually achieves.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Technology

 by Jaffa Levy

Europe’s Dismal AI Future: Why the ‘AI Continent’ Is Losing the Global AI Arms Race

Europe says it wants to become the “AI continent” and is now planning AI gigafactories and sovereign compute by 2026. But while Brussels drafts tenders, frontier labs in California and Shenzhen move at weekly cadence. The problem is not European intelligence or talent. It is metabolism: regulation, culture and capital flows that move on political time while the AI race moves on benchmark time.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Technology

 by Jaffa Levy

Code Red at the Frontier: GPT 5.2, Gemini 3 and the Arms Race That Buries Safety

Sam Altman’s “code red” over Google’s Gemini 3 is not a colourful memo. It is the visible edge of a frontier arms race in which OpenAI, Google, xAI and soon Microsoft will ship ever more capable models on a weekly cycle while asking investors for power station levels of capital. Benchmarks rise, valuations rise, and the first thing that falls out of the room is safety.

China / Technology / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

China Turns Trump’s Nvidia H200 Deal Into Another Tool for Self Reliance

Donald Trump has reopened the door for Nvidia’s H200 sales to approved customers in China. Beijing’s response is not to celebrate but to ration access, shield Huawei and deepen its own AI hardware stack. This article follows on from our investigation into offshore Chinese model training and explains how both Washington and Beijing now run export style controls on the same chip.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Technology

 by Jaffa Levy

Human AI Integration Will Decide Whether We Remain Subjects or Clients of Superintelligence

The next phase of AI will not be about clever chatbots but about systems that learn like brilliant teenagers, copy themselves at scale, and quietly become the dominant intelligence on the planet. When that happens, the only survivable response for humans will be to integrate with these systems rather than compete against them.

Technology

 by Jaffa Levy

Robotaxis and the New AI Infrastructure Race Between America and China

Robotaxis are no longer just prototypes. Waymo now delivers over a million paid rides each month in American cities, while Baidu’s Apollo Go runs fully driverless cabs across Chinese and Gulf cities and chases breakeven in Wuhan. Behind them, Nvidia sells the compute, Uber chases bookings, and regulators decide who can rewrite their streets.

Technology / The Future

 by Jaffa Levy

Russia and China Build the Northern Bypass Around Suez

The Suez Canal’s repeated crises are forcing the world to look north. As Red Sea attacks disrupt global trade, Russia and China are turning the Arctic into a strategic bypass where power depends not on warships but on icebreakers. With nuclear fleets and expanding polar capacity, they are shaping a new corridor that could redefine maritime logistics as the ice retreats.