Taiwan’s advanced chips make it a bargaining chip in U.S.–China–Japan rivalry Tariffs, subsidies, and new fabs turn semiconductor leverage into day-to-day industrial policy Education must build chip literacy and procurement buffers to withstand supply shocks

Grab–GoTo could control ~85–90% of ride-hailing, risking lock-in Approve only with guardrails—data portability, fair access, pricing caps, driver-earnings floors—or block Educators and ministries should bake these rules into procurement and curricula

US leadership in Asia is consolidating, not fading Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and key ASEAN partners are tightening defense and tech ties with Washington This hardening coalition outweighs rhetoric and is reshaping education and industry

War slashes output by destroying labor and capital Ukraine’s displacement and ruined infrastructure cause long, Europe-wide economic scars Recovery hinges on safe returns, demining, and rebuilding power and transport to unlock investment

Industrial subsidies in East Asia misallocate resources and dampen productivity Cheap credit and opaque, incumbent-favoring programs entrench weak firms Make support transparent, performance-based, and linked to skills and exit

Build a third AI stack for education Adopt an Airbus-style consortium for procurement Prioritize teacher time-savings, multilingual access, and audited safety A single number highlights the stakes: in 2024, Airbus

Stories stick differently: meaning-first vs.

The EU can afford to wait, but China cannot German auto troubles have hardened Europe’s stance Europe now builds leverage through new trade routes and partners In 2024, the European Union ran a €304.5 billion goods defic

Export controls can accelerate innovation by forcing substitution China’s AI stack shows rapid adaptation under GPU limits Education must train for constraints, secure compute, and resilient supply chains The fastest st

Digital money has arrived at scale Public rails should anchor trust while markets build services Schools and regulators must prepare for multi-rail payments with privacy, openness, and interoperability A single numb

EU firms keep investing despite weaker growth and falling U.S.

China’s critical minerals weaponization turns midstream processing into global economic leverage Without local refining and skills, countries lose value and bargaining power Build education-led processing hubs to capture margins and reduce chokepoint risk

AI sycophancy flatters users and reinforces errors in learning It amplifies the Dunning–Kruger effect by boosting confidence without competence Design and policy should reward grounded, low-threat corrections that improve accuracy A

European scholar networks lift collaboration and raise median quality U.S.

Adjusted deflators reveal hidden gains in US manufacturing productivity The bottleneck is skills, not machines Scale capital-intensive training, stackable credentials, and adult apprenticeships The standard view sugges

Takaichi’s rise is a pragmatic bet, not a protest vote Shrinking cohorts demand an education reset—protect funding, cut teacher overload, use AI with guardrails Judge success by delivery: fair consolidation and measurable gains in teacher time

Bootcamps produce tool users, not frontier researchers ASEAN needs a scientist-first AI talent strategy Fund PhDs, labs, and compute to invent, not import The statistic that should jolt us awake is simple: almost 40% of jobs

Deepfakes are breaking trust in evidence Campuses need rapid takedowns, provenance checks, and victim support Lawmakers must close gaps now with clear liability and cross-border enforcement We used to view images as facts.

The core risk is AI safety rule prioritization, not model math Evidence shows agents bypass weak guardrails under pressure Schools need layered, auditable refusals and staged tool access One number should change th

Students already use AI for writing; literacy must mean transparent, auditable reasoning Redesign assessment to grade process—sources, prompts, and brief oral defenses—alongside product Skip detection arms races; provide approved tools, disclosure norms, and teacher training for equity