Breaking: Zeinab Kazemi, who courageously removed her hijab at an engineers' gathering in Tehran, is now sentenced to 74 lashes. In a video unveiled today, she declares she has no regrets and remains steadfast in her fight against oppression. Iranian women won't be silenced by

“like-minded middle power nations like India and South Korea should come together and pool their resources and capabilities for the development of creative solutions that help shape a more peaceful and stable Indo-Pacific.” writes Lisa Curtis of CNAS koreaonpoint.org/view.php?topic…

This is a dimension in Korea-India dialogue that is not often discussed but hugely important: nuclear deterrence. Think about the possibilities.

“To address N. Korea comprehensively, a paradigm shift is necessary. Security and human rights concerns should not be viewed as separate silos but as interconnected elements of the same complex issue.” writes Hanna Song of Database Center for North Korean Human Rights #NorthKoreanHumanRights🔗tinyurl.com/3xvza54w

"It is important to raise the political and economic costs of North Korea’s non-compliance with the foundations on which the UN system has been built." writes Joanna Hosaniak, Deputy Director General of Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights. koreaonpoint.org/view.php?topic…

Over 5000 missiles fired and Hamas terrorists crossing the border to infiltrate Israel from Gaza this Shabbat, Sukkoth 2nd holiday morning. Massive intelligence failure. Hope the Biden admin sees the folly of the transfer of $6 billion in funds to Iran, Hamas's patrons. 🙏🇮🇱

Some very interesting tactics used. It wasn’t a cyber attack. Rather multiple drones used to disable remote automatic machine gun and surveillance posts. Drones also used to attack rapid response units. Explains a lot

Twitter has become terrible. But the depressing truth of it is that anyone who spends five minutes of here gets a basic sense of the barbarity of what just happened in Israel. Anyone who spends five minutes browsing the headlines of NYT, WaPo, WSJ and Guardian has no idea.

Israel is being forced into a trap by Hamas. It’s important to realize that now, and remember it later. Hamas cannot win a kinetic war with Israel. But the point of terrorism is not to harm the enemy, it is to induce the enemy to harm itself. The Israeli reaction is the objective

If Hezbollah attacks there is nothing in history that will compare to how heavily taxed an integrated air defense system will be like then. Israel’s IADS is the most advanced and layered on earth, but the scale and variety of what will be sent south is unlike anything we’ve seen.

Around 60% of German 5G network relies on Huawei. In France figure is 17%. While Berlin over past years allowed increasing reliance on Huawei in access network, Paris quietly took steps to protect critical infrastructure. And didn‘t pay a price with Beijing. (WELT AM SONNTAG)

My latest in the Financial Times All involved in the Israel-Hamas conflict should heed the warnings of 1982 and Ariel Sharon’s invasion of Lebanon and siege of Beirut to kick out the PLO. on.ft.com/48KBISd

My latest piece about the larger meaning of what has happened in Israel. The issue is less political ties between Hamas, Iran, and Russia (though those exist) than their common barbarity, and hostility to genuine civilization.CSIS Johns Hopkins SAIS theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Morris Chang: "In the semiconductor space, there is no globalization anymore; there is no free trade anymore. The priority is national security only." asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/…

The level of intra-EU sniping at Ursula von der Leyen shows her resolute action and speeches on many topics bother those who specialise in equivocation on the same topics, from China policy to the Middle East.

Issue 36.1 of JOEAA is now in the books: inss.re.kr/publication/bb… Now on to the Spring 2024 issue! Submissions accepted on rolling basis, but those received by Nov. 30 are guaranteed review for publication in next issue. Info here: inss.re.kr/en/aboutus/Pag… #BigIdeasForEastAsia

The US just published its revised export controls on AI chips, moving away from the 'chip-to-chip' interconnect bandwidth threshold to a threshold on computational performance (OP/s), including its derived performance density (OP/s per mm²). 1/

This is Shlomo Ron. When Hamas terrorists invaded his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, this 85-year-old frail man had a plan. He left his wife, daughters and grandson in the shelter, and went to sit in his living room, waiting for his death. He figured that when terrorists break in