US telecoms regulator moves to ban Chinese undersea cable technology, tentative India-China rapprochement papers over economic grievances, resource nationalism proliferates across Africa’s critical minerals’ sector, Japan injects billions in hope of sparking shipbuilding revival and Trump’s pharmaceutical tariff threat triggers surge of defensive investment pledges.

Xi recalibrates China’s governance architecture amid economic headwinds, US industrials find refuge in AI infrastructure boom, Indian Prime Minister Modi leads efforts to secure critical minerals, The EU weighs up carbon levy exemptions for heavy industry and China’s EV price war exposes overcapacity crisis as automakers haemorrhage cash.

South Korea’s new president charts pragmatic course after attempted coup crisis, Tanzania becomes latest country in the region to embrace resource nationalism, India’s job creation failure drives millions toward government employment, Foreign and local investors criticise Vietnam’s apparent backward step on renewables and Toyota and Daimler Truck’s merger marks strategic hydrogen pivot.