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Isolationists vs. Ideological Hawks vs. Practical Business Dealmakers. He loves the raw, anti-globalist applause lines of the Isolationists, relies on the legal frameworks of the Ideological Hawks to smash the old system, but ultimately measures his daily success by the stock market tickers championed by the Dealmakers.

US envoys in Doha to meet mediators but not Iranians, Qatar says. mapshock.com/briefings/us-e…

Xi Doctorine.

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#Editorial: China's new regulation on outbound investment not only provides a "shield" for risk prevention and control but also equips China with a "sword" for legitimate countermeasures, making the outbound investment management system more complete and operational.

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The Islamic State no longer relies on traditional propaganda videos. It adopts Gen Z aesthetics, memes, gaming culture, and platform-specific language to make extremist narratives appear familiar, relatable, and shareable:@SoumyaAwasthi17 or-f.org/39157 #OnlineRadicalisation #Extremism

US tariff refunds set to boost Japan Inc. profits by up to $3bn s.nikkei.com/4eF5Q6F

Ambassador Vinay Kwatra delivered remarks at the IX USISPF Annual Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., where he underscored India's emergence as a global anchor of trusted supply chains. He noted that this transformation is underpinned by robust domestic economic growth and structural reforms, complemented by strong and mutually beneficial partnerships abroad. @USISPForum @DDNewslive @airnewsalerts

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BREAKING: US Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Anthropic says

UK Defense Investment and Autonomous Systems Acquisition Strategy The UK's £5 billion drone and autonomous systems investment over four years represents a deliberate shift toward mass-produced, attritable platforms over traditional high-cost naval vessels, fundamentally reshaping force structure and procurement doctrine. The investment opens a critical window for NATO interoperability coordination but simultaneously exposes fragmented alliance standardization efforts that competitor states are outpacing. The strategic implication pivots on whether UK industrial capacity can simultaneously address three asymmetric demands: achieving NATO-aligned interoperability, sustaining rapid-cycle production modeled on Ukraine's warfare tempo, and competing with peer autonomous weapons development. The UK's position is neither leadership nor lag; it is a tactical pivot that will either amplify NATO cohesion or deepen industrial fragmentation depending on procurement timing and standards alignment in the next 12-18 months. mapshock.com/briefings/uk-d…

How each prime minister broke Britain's economy. The IMF lowered its forecast for UK GDP growth in 2026 from 1.3% to 0.8%. mapshock.com/briefings/how-…

EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic met Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Brussels on 29 June 2026, setting an October deadline for "tangible results" and stating his objective as "to begin balancing the trade relationship between the European Union and China." The talks are unfolding against a structural emergency: the EU-China goods trade deficit reached €359.9 billion in 2025, surpassing the €312.2 billion deficit of 2024. The sectors under negotiation, principally electrical equipment, machinery, electric vehicles, critical minerals, and chemicals, are the same sectors where European manufacturing faces what Brussels calls a second "China shock." The Commission has set September 2026 as the deadline for new economic security tools, and member state divisions are constraining Sefcovic's mandate at the negotiating table. For supply chain executives and policy officers, the window between now and October is when the architecture of European industrial sourcing for the next decade is being contested. mapshock.com/briefings/eu-c…

The US national average pump price stood near $4.00 per gallon as of late June 2026, on its fourth consecutive weekly decline, a trajectory driven by a specific diplomatic sequence: the June 17 US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding has brought crude relief to markets, but as Vanda Insights founder Vandana Hari told Al Jazeera, "crude's slide is entirely sentiment-driven," with the market front-running the best-case scenario for Hormuz normalization. The price recovery is real, but it is fragile. It could be months before American consumers see major relief at the petrol pump, and the structural conditions that cushioned prices during the conflict, most importantly the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, are now seriously depleted. Decision-makers who treat the current price slide as a return to normalcy are miscalibrating their exposure window. mapshock.com/briefings/us-o…

Asia-Pacific semiconductor markets have surged to record highs this year, with South Korea's Kospi gaining more than 80% and Taiwan's Taiex repeatedly posting new records as investors piled into the semiconductor trade at the center of the AI boom. The rally is structurally narrow, not broad: two national markets and a handful of corporate names are absorbing a disproportionate share of global capital, producing valuations that rest on a single demand thesis running at capacity. Micron Technology has told investors that memory supply is under pressure and will remain tight through at least 2027, with CEO Sanjay Mehrotra stating that the company expects "tight conditions to persist beyond calendar 2027 as a result of AI-driven demand across all segments coupled with structural supply constraints." For supply-chain executives and investors with exposure to these markets, the question is not whether the AI demand story is real -- it is -- but whether valuations have run far enough ahead of supply realities to create the conditions for a sharp reversal. mapshock.com/briefings/asia…

The Trump administration's reconfiguration of Food for Peace, transferring it from the dismantled USAID to the USDA under an explicit "America First" framework, has converted what was a humanitarian instrument into a commodity export mechanism, with measurable consequences for global food supply chains, bilateral trade negotiations, and agricultural market pricing. The shift arrived simultaneously with a 40 percent reduction in WFP's projected funding base, leaving a gap between acute need and available supply that competing exporters, particularly Brazil, are actively filling. For corporate strategists and risk managers, the policy change introduces new variables in commodity routing, country-selection logic for food aid markets, and the reliability of the US as a predictable supplier in multilateral food security systems. mapshock.com/briefings/us-a…

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in its 2026 Annual Threat Assessment, formally assessed that "North Korea has successfully test-fired an ICBM capable of striking the entire US mainland" -- a conclusion that represents a meaningful upgrade from prior-year language. Yet the credibility gap at the heart of Pyongyang's deterrent persists: the warhead stockpile estimate remains contested across a wide band, and independent U.S. military assessments indicate that reentry vehicle survivability remains unproven in operational conditions. North Korea's May 2026 constitutional amendments codified the centrality of nuclear weapons to the regime's defense posture and severed any constitutional basis for engagement with South Korea, signaling that the deterrence architecture is now hardened at the legal level. Both the military and diplomatic dimensions of this decision require attention from policy planners across the Indo-Pacific. mapshock.com/briefings/nort…

Western Europe's June 2026 Omega-block heat dome has driven France to its hottest recorded day since 1947, with temperatures exceeding 44 degrees Celsius, and is simultaneously squeezing electricity supply and driving demand to record levels, a bidirectional grid stress that no other climate hazard replicates. EDF confirmed a 4.1-gigawatt reduction in French nuclear output, roughly 7% of midday demand, as the Garonne River reached 28 degrees Celsius and breached environmental discharge limits, forcing Golfech 2 offline and curtailing output at Bugey, Saint-Alban, and Nogent. Five UK gas plants simultaneously cut a combined 2.5 gigawatts due to heat equipment stress. The event is the second heat dome to strike Western Europe in two months, arriving against a structural backdrop confirmed by the World Meteorological Organisation: Europe is warming at more than twice the global average. Corporate risk managers treating this as an isolated weather incident face growing exposure to a pattern that Allianz Research estimates already shaves up to 0.5 percentage points from European GDP per episode. mapshock.com/briefings/euro…

The US military's Force Model reductions in Europe and previous brigade cuts are part of a broader Pentagon shift to reallocate more resources to the Pacific to deter China, championed by Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby as part of the Trump administration's vision for "NATO 3.0." The Iran war has accelerated and politicized that reallocation, exposing a structural gap between what Washington demands of European allies, what those allies can actually field, and what they are politically willing to do. The result is a NATO entering its July 2026 Ankara summit with rising spending numbers but persistent capability voids, while US air and naval assets stripped from European commitments flow toward the Indo-Pacific theater where a second simultaneous contingency is the organizing fear. mapshock.com/briefings/nato…

Vietnam urges consumers to save power as heatwave drives record demand reut.rs/4w7Zm5W reut.rs/4w7Zm5W

Asian stocks surge as Micron earnings ease AI fears reut.rs/3R55soR reut.rs/3R55soR

BREAKING: At least 32 people are dead and over 700 injured, acting Venezuela President Rodríguez says, as the country reels from 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes. She warned the toll was expected to rise. apnews.com/article/venezu…

Trump slams NATO over lax participation in Iran war in talk with Mark Rutte NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte met with President Donald Trump at the White House on June 24, seeking to ease tensions over the Iran war and U.S. The NATO alliance faces significant strain, with some European countries concerned that Washington may withdraw outright. The core dispute centers on Trump's demand that European allies provide military support for the U.S.-Israel campaign against Iran, which most have refused. European allies and Canada have together spent substantial new sums on defense, with record increases last year totaling over $90 billion extra in real terms compared to the prior year. Rutte's strategy involves framing Europe's increased defense spending as evidence that Trump's pressure has produced results, while minimizing the significance of European refusals to support the war in Iran. The July summit carries elevated risk: Trump's unpredictability and lingering frustration over Iran cooperation could derail alliance unity even if Rutte successfully repositions the narrative around defense spending commitments. mapshock.com/briefings/trum…