[New] Europe's largest economy and most powerful political actor, Germany, is finally getting serious about Putin's threat.
Washington Examiner
[New] Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae will enter 2026 seemingly in a dominant position in the Japanese political system and determined to pursue an ambitious agenda to bolster Japan's industrial strength and military power.
Observing Japan
[New] Threat collectives are increasingly aligning with political causes or nation-state agendas, using global events to justify operations, rally affiliates, and intensify targeting across regions and industries.
ZeroFOX
[New] The risk scenario is that sustained political pressure forces a looser stance despite resilient data, accelerating the repricing of U.S. rate expectations and leaving the dollar to absorb the cost of eroded policy independence.
investing.com
[New] The primary risks are significant political and regulatory uncertainty in the U.S., which has already led to a $955 million impairment on the Empire Wind portfolio.
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[New] Sweeping proposed changes to political donations in Queensland, including lifting a ban on developer payments, could increase the risk of corruption in government.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
[New] This past week marked a critical inflection point, where the promise of transformative AI collided with the physical, political, and security realities that will determine whether America can deliver on it.
The Exchange
[New] The coming negotiations on the UN tax convention, unfolding amid major shifts in global politics and finance, will test governments' willingness to cooperate.
Tax Justice Network
[New] If the Mercosur deal falls apart in the final stretch, it will be a vivid display of political incompetence, torpedoing Europe's much-vaunted ambition to diversify its trade partners and strengthen its geopolitical clout.
Euronews
[New] The Indo-Pacific region requires Australia to build climate resilience through its grand strategy because domestic weaknesses from the Black Summer bushfires and following floods and international political changes endanger its status as a trustworthy middle power.
Eurasia Review
[New] What's coming could be something worse: a high-stakes public competition between anonymous factions, seemingly made up largely of billionaires, using AI as a pretext to have a food fight all over what's left of the American political process.
Gizmodo
[New] Perhaps the main political goal for Ukraine is to deprive Russia of the opportunity to carry out acts of aggression against Ukraine in the foreseeable future.
LIGA.net
[New] Global political tensions directly increase the risk for all organizations connected to high-value targets or essential services.
icertglobal.com
[New] Meeting the 2030 global targets will require sustained political leadership, renewed investment in HIV services, and expanded access to long-acting prevention and treatment.
Contagion Live
In terms of nation state threats: China's cyber operations focused regionally on targets in Taiwan, Japan, and Hong Kong, especially anything related to semiconductor tech or political intelligence.
DeepStrike
Geopolitics of compute: As cloud giants scale national footprints, the global AI infrastructure map will look less centralized around a handful of Western regions and more distributed.
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China itself attracted very little attention - whether for example modern slavery issues and associated restrictions, political interference, alliance with Russia, threat to Taiwan, or whatever.
CROAKING CASSANDRA
The balance between federal enforcement operations (Agency Politicization, Human Rights, Sub-national Autonomy) and community resistance (Contentious Politics, Civil Society Oversight) will continue affecting multiple democracy factors.
RealTime DemTrends
The Agriculture Department threatened to withhold SNAP nutrition benefits from Democratic-led states unless they provide immigration enforcement data, using food assistance programs as political leverage for unrelated policy compliance.
RealTime DemTrends
Multiple violent incidents, political threats, and identity-based tensions indicated breakdown in social cohesion across American communities this week.
RealTime DemTrends
Small modular reactors (SMRs) can help Europe into a new era of nuclear power and drive its energy independence, but require the political, public and financial will to realise their potential, an energy conference heard recently in Bilbao, Spain.
The Independent Global Nuclear News Agency
Last updated: 21 December 2025
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