Donald Trump and Xi Jinping may be moving toward a new understanding of how to manage the U.S.–China rivalry through rules and restraint. But the great-power bargain raises an important question: can the two agree on the limits of their competition without also shaping other countries’ sovereignty?
A regional security source briefed on the details of the Flydubai flight incident on September 30, 2026, has told EIR that two Flydubai relief pilots travelling aboard the aircraft intervened to subdue the Omani co-pilot before taking control of the aircraft and landing it in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Egypt has rejected a request by Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas’s political bureau, to relocate the group’s political leadership headquarters from Doha to Cairo, as Hamas explores alternative arrangements for its senior leadership outside the Gaza Strip, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
America needs welders as much as warriors to rebuild an Arsenal of Democracy that has atrophied under decades of strategic malpractice. Bipartisan neglect has hollowed out the skilled workforce, leaving a deficit that money alone cannot fix.
The Supreme Court has handed Trump a significant win in his campaign to assert federal authority over America’s elections. The ruling clears a legal obstacle for Trump’s order that citizen lists be compiled and mail-in ballots be issued to eligible voters, just weeks before states distribute ballots ahead of November’s midterms.
Chinese authorities have intensified measures related to drone exports in recent months, with the actions extending to the detention of a number of officials and executives at major companies operating in the defense and drone sectors, according to a source close to one of the companies affected by the measures.
Science and technology leadership is now an American national security objective in its own right. The National Security Science and Technology Strategy still describes the innovation ecosystem as a key American strength to be leveraged, but its instruments point toward a more explicit techno-industrial strategy.
Ukrainian lawmakers have been instructed to leave Kyiv and relocate to areas near the Romanian and Hungarian borders through October 17, amid intelligence that Russia plans to expand its attacks on the capital in early October, a reliable source told EIR.
Europe’s next critical infrastructure test may come beneath the waves. The cables running across the seabed carry data on which its economies and security systems depend, yet they remain physically exposed and difficult to defend. That vulnerability poses a problem that conventional infrastructure protection cannot solve.
The U.S. midterm elections may change the political landscape, but they will not end the war with Iran. The real question may not be whether the elections will constrain Trump, but rather what kind of war they will produce the day after.
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