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Coverage · August · 2026 · Long Reads · 130 articles

The surcharge scheme Amazon can't easily outrun

Shein's Hong Kong listing: what the Nikkei Asia Telegram post can, and cannot, carry

Strikes on Larak: A Narrow Island, A Wide Escalation

Larak Island strike: US hits IRGC launchers as Hormuz mine cycle restarts

A 25-year oil handshake, a Pentagon stake, and the price of Venezuela's interim order

Kenya's 2027 race is already costing the country: what the new Daily Nation numbers reveal

Tehran on the clock: Israel reserves the right to strike, even if Washington signs

A Himalayan flood, a payments fight, and a labour-share print: three signals from one news day

OpenAI cuts Cursor loose after the SpaceX deal, and the developer-tools market takes the hit

Six months in: war, sanctions and the shape of Iran's economy

From Pampas to Caracas: Two Trade Signals in a Single Day, and What They Add Up To

Canada bets C$195 million that Xanadu can build a sovereign quantum supply chain

Trump's 28 August stack: beef plan, antitrust threat, Space Academy order and a deportations market

Six months into the Iran war, Trump says he is 'not in a hurry'. The Pentagon, per the Guardian, is already raiding its payroll.

A lake by any other name: the order redrawing a US-Canada argument

A lake by any other name: Trump's Lake Ontario order and the symbolic register of the US-Canada trade war

Three signals, one stress test: how a film review, a grid order, and a generation's bets converged on the cost of waiting

Seven Hundred Ghosts: Inside the Hugging Face Breach and the New Geometry of Agent-Scale Intrusion

The swarm, the cover-up and the missing audit: OpenAI's Hugging Face breach, in the companies' own words

Carney's tariff gamble: the executive actions stacking up against Canada

Meta's $16.68 billion settlement: how a litigation pile-up reset the rules for addictive design

Three Chinese moves on a single August day: an Eswatini evacuation advisory, a cross-border graft bill, and a Taipei drone fight

Beijing Pulls the Rule-Maker's Lever: Inside China's Largest Tesla-Led Recall in Years

The week America’s bottlenecks moved closer together

Two readouts, one strait: Iran and Oman describe a Hormuz corridor on different terms

Hormuz opens, Tehran closes: the day the ceasefire outran the diplomats

Canada hits back: the C$20 billion counter-tariff and the unravelling of a thirty-year settlement

Inside Microsoft’s AI-self-reporting pay experiment: what the leaked numbers actually show

The Court, the Postal Service, and the Midterms: How a 6-3 Ruling Reshapes the Map Before November

Trump's SpaceX stake places a presidential portfolio inside an orbital-computing story

Canada becomes the test of Trump’s tariff doctrine

Shein's Hong Kong relisting: from a $100bn mark to a $27bn target, and what the gap says about the model

Shein's $27 Billion Hong Kong Listing Is a Retreat Disguised as a Debut

Shein returns to the public markets, this time with a Hong Kong price tag and a $1.8bn ask

Life sentence for Hui Ka Yan leaves China's property crisis exactly where it started

Shein's Hong Kong relisting and Alibaba's $10 billion placement expose a Chinese capital market coming of age

Vibe coding at the kitchen table: how China's non-programmers are absorbing the AI race

Carney's September 8 tariff counter-strike and the new North American trade war

Rezaei warns of strategic shift as Tehran signals a new doctrine for the next war

'Rezaei widens the threat: Hormuz stays closed, US bases in scope, and a warning

The tariff that cooled Quebec: how a 50% US duty shifted the sovereignty math

Apple's 200-job cut at Siri and Vision Pro is less a layoff than a reallocation

The 80-minute call: what two read-outs tell us about the Trump-Lula tariff opening

Power, Pipelines and Public Health: Reading the Trump White House's 21 August 2026 News Cycle

China's Oil Pause, Read Against the Thread Evidence

Japan's week of heat: yen, rare earths, a Beijing trip, and a court it cannot defend

Nvidia's China denial and a rare-earth rebound arrive on the same wire

Literacy, Gasoline, and the Iran War: Three Signals From a Week When the Lights Stayed On

'Two chips, three wires: parsing Nvidia, a denial, and a relayed market line

Hui Ka Yan's life sentence settles one question about Evergrande, not the property crisis

Six years after Megxit, British outlets report the Sussexes are preparing a UK return

Three tests, one afternoon: the Fed, the Comey novel, and an ABC disclosure

China's robots want a job, and its bond markets want a foreigner's wallet

Beijing blocks Chinese firms from helping Europe's JD.com probe

Show, Then Sell: China’s Robot Industry Hits a Harder Pivot Under EU and AI Scrutiny

Capital stays in the chips while Beijing rewrites the rules of the AI race

Unitree's Shanghai debut: a 629% opening print, a 542% first-day move, and the wire gap between them

A 48-hour fracture: how the US-Iran diplomatic track snapped in mid-August

The Gulf's Risk Calculus Is Shifting as the UAE Freezes Transactions With Iran

Abu Dhabi cuts Tehran off: what the UAE's 18 August 2026 suspension actually says, and what it does not

Hormuz, headlines, and the gap: how a single strait exposed the split between Trump's narrative and Iran's posture

No talks, plenty of pressure: Trump opens three new fronts while Iran diplomacy goes dark

Erdogan steps into a stalled Iran track as Trump rejects an extension

A postponed trial, a drone strike, and a profits print: the week's fracture lines

Ankara's bid for the chair no one has vacated

The 50% question: why Canada was still negotiating after the tariff had arrived

Tehran's Hormuz gamble: oil markets brace as Iran signals shift to an "offensive" posture

Manila tests the economics of an arms-export dream

China's July print: factories hum, shops stay quiet, and the supply-demand gap widens

The $9 Burger Story in Beijing, Read Against the Cattle Signal Out of Chicago

The Strait Hesitates: What a Weekend of Tanker Attacks Tells Us About Hormuz, and the World That Uses It

Congo’s Ebola toll passes 2,300, exposing a public-health failure in slow motion

Trump's South Korea drill cut: an alliance off-ramp wrapped in a North Korea rationale

Four weekend signals, one read on the China-West squeeze

Pick a side or pick a deal: Washington's AI ultimatum meets China's quiet backstop

'The Strait That Hasn''t Moved: How an Iran File Quietly Repriced Oil, Defense

Leavitt steps down: a press secretary built for the second-term media cycle

Brazil's Two-Front War on Platforms and the Public Purse

The chairman who left the chair: how the Tata Sons succession fight reads on 12 August 2026