🇪🇺🇨🇳 Half of Europe's auto companies, 86% of medical device companies, 95% of the mechanical engineering sector, and the entire European defence industry use chips made by Nexperia

🔗 Arnaud Bertrand

🇸🇩⚔️🇸🇩 After El Fasher fell to the hands of the RSF militia in Sudan, thousands of civilians are being killed before our eyes.

To understand the war, I made a serie of 20 MAPS on the war since 2023.

Before the war, Sudan was already split between the military junta (SAF + RSF) and neutral factions (rebels and former rebels), including Joint Darfur Forces, Sudan Liberation Army in Darfur and Sudan People Liberation Army North in the Nuba mountains of Kordofan.

The main fighting in 2023 erupted in all the main cities, with the RSF controlling the Darfur region and part of Khartoum after April 15th coup attempt. They also took the Meroe airbase and captured Egyptian and Sudanese pilots.

Then, Meroe was liberated by the SAF, but fighting continued everywhere:

-El Geneina fell (15 000 Massalit slaughtered by RSF), Khartoum battle intensifies, Darfur garrisons encircled

In November 2023, the RSF took control of most of Darfur garrisons, Nyala, Kas, Zalingei, Ed Daein and Adiela. Only El Fasher didn't fall thanks to the intervention of Joint Forces.

The SLM-A of Minnawi joined the SAF in North Darfur. RSF took control of south Khartoum.

In December 2023, the RSF, unable to capture the main bases of the armed forces in central Khartoum pushed instead to Wad Madani, in the fertile Gezira state. At the same time, it continued its offensive in West Kordofan until February.

In May 2024 most of Joint Forces of Darfur joined the SAF. The RSF pushed to Sennar and in the oilfields of Kordofan.

In June 2024, a new breakthrough happened in the south of the country, the RSF bypassed Sennar and took Singa, reaching the South Sudanese and Ethiopian borders.

In August 2024, the SAF reopened the Kosti-Sennar road, cutting Singa and taking Jebel Moya, first successful counter-offensive.

In September, the war escalated with the RSF seeking supply roads to Libya. The SAF liberated Singa and started Khartoum counter-offensive.

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/clement_molin/status/1983287158459756753

🤖 Bill Gates says we're in an AI bubble similar to the dot-com bubble

Bill Gates says we're in the midst of an AI bubble.

He says it's probably not like the "tulip mania" that took place in the Netherlands in the 1630s.

It could be like the dot-com bubble, where some companies ended up overvalued.

🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-ai-bubble-similar-dot-com-bubble-2025-10

🇯🇵🇺🇸🇨🇳 Honda halts production in Mexico due to chip shortage

Per the article, the suspension is due to a shortage of parts linked to tensions between the Netherlands & China over Nexperia, a Dutch semiconductor maker owned by Chinese investors.

📝 Carolina Lion: That Dutch/China dispute over microchips is really doing a number on Western car manufacturers.

🔗 https://archive.ph/NXgX0

🇮🇷🤝🇨🇳 — NEW: European intelligence says Iran has received several shipments of 2,000 tons of sodium perchlorate from China since September 29, a key precursor for solid rocket propellant used in mid-range ballistic missiles, according to CNN.

➡️ The deliveries, tracked to ports including Bandar Abbas and linked to vessels such as the MV Basht, Barzin, Elyana, and MV Artavand (the latter with AIS turned off), follow Iran’s June conflict with Israel and appear aimed at replenishing and expanding its missile stocks.

➡️ Although UN sanctions were reintroduced via the “snapback” mechanism at the end of September to ban ballistic‑missile activity and related supplies, sodium perchlorate is not explicitly named in the UN lists, creating a legal gray area that China could cite.

➡️ Some ships and entities involved are already under U.S. sanctions. Western sources say the quantities could produce roughly 500 missiles (experts note Iran previously planned ~200 missiles/month).

➡️ China denies knowledge of the specific shipments and stresses adherence to export controls, while China and Russia opposed the snapback reimposition.

@TabZLIVE

🇺🇸🤝🇰🇷 — US President Donald J. Trump announces that ROK has agreed to pay 350 Billion USD for a lowering of tariffs charged against United States:

South Korea has agreed to pay the USA 350 Billion Dollars for a lowering of the Tariff’s charged against them by the United States.

Additionally, they have agreed to buy our Oil and Gas in vast quantities, and investments into our Country by wealthy South Korean Companies and Businessmen will exceed 600 Billion Dollars.

Our Military Alliance is stronger than ever before and, based on that, I have given them approval to build a Nuclear Powered Submarine, rather than the old fashioned, and far less nimble, diesel powered Submarines that they have now.

A great trip, with a great President of South Korea!

🇺🇸📞🇰🇵 — Aboard USAF Air Force One, US President Donald Trump tells reporters that he would come back to Korean Peninsula to talk with DPRK Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, if DPRK agrees: I'd come back to talk with Kim Jong Un if it was right

“We never were able to talk because I was so busy, and really this is why we came.

I think it would’ve been maybe disrespectful to the importance of this meeting if we did that.

So I’d come back, with respect to Kim Jong Un, I’d come back if it was right.”