🇨🇳🚫🇺🇸⚡️ — 📰 Reuters | Exclusive: China bans foreign AI chips from state-funded data centres, sources say:

"Nov 5 (Reuters) - The Chinese government has issued guidance requiring new data centre projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made artificial intelligence chips, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

In recent weeks, Chinese regulatory authorities have ordered such data centres that are less than 30% complete to remove all installed foreign chips, or cancel plans to purchase them, while projects in a more advanced stage will be decided on a case-by-case basis, the sources said.

The move could represent one of China's most aggressive steps yet to eliminate foreign technology from its critical infrastructure amid a pause in trade hostilities between Washington and Beijing, and achieve its quest for AI chip self-sufficiency.

China's access to advanced AI chips, including those made by Nvidia, has been a key point of friction with the U.S., as the two wrestle for dominance in high-end computing power and AI.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday following talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week that Washington will "let them deal with Nvidia but not in terms of the most advanced" chips."

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🇲🇾🇹🇭🇸🇬🇳🇿🇫🇷🇺🇸🔫⚡️🇺🇸 — ⭐️ Rybar Asia:

"Hawaiian Maneuvers: the Americans are conducting exercises again

In the far corners of the Asia-Pacific region, military activity is also heating up — it's not just the Japanese and Chinese conducting exercises. In the American state of Hawaii, another round of training began this week involving five thousand military personnel from the USA, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, and France.

The objectives in this case are traditional for this type of exercise. The parties will practice operations for deploying troops and equipment, organizing command and communications, as well as conducting combat operations supported by aviation and artillery.

🖍The training is held as part of the deployment of the Joint Pacific Training Center on Hawaiian territory. It is needed by the Americans for training in conditions as close as possible to those where combat operations may take place. This round of exercises concerns fighting in jungles and tropics.

❗️As always, the training is aimed at improving the interoperability of the armed forces of the participating countries. Of course, the exact scenarios of the exercises are not disclosed. But considering the situation in the region, the main potential adversary in the exercises is precisely the Chinese army.

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🇺🇸💬🇨🇳🧪💰💥 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Disagreements Emerge Over US-China Rare Earth Deal, As US Adds Uranium, Silver To Critical Minerals List | November 6, 2025:

"Two days ago, when discussing China's surprising announcement that Trump should not cross four "red lines" (including i)Taiwan, ii) democracy and human rights, iii) China's political system, and iv) development rights) or risk a collapse of the trade truce, we said that "ever since the recent "truce" in the trade war between the US and China was signed in Korea one week ago - the latest of many such ceasefires meant to be broken - skeptics have been patiently counting down until this latest ceasefire is torn up, and tensions between the two superpowers flare up once more."

Needless to say, China telling Trump what the US president can and can not say is one of those things that the generally "sanguine and quite calm" US president tends to not be too excited about, and which leads to occasional bursts of outrage which then restart trade wars.

Then yesterday, we said that it felt like "'the cracks in this latest trade deal are already starting to show, whether it is Beijing ordering Trump what he can't talk about, or quietly ring-fencing its domestic data center by banning US Al chips" and further said that "while China granted Trump a 1 year reprieve on rare earths, it is quietly tightening the export noose on other, just as important minerals. According to the Global Times, China has introduced new export controls on silver, antimony, and tungsten."

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Fully aware that the US has to ramp up its own supply chains, the US added copper, silver and uranium to a government list of critical minerals as the Trump administration broadens its scope of what commodities it deems vital to the American economy and national security."

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🌍📊💲🔫 — 📰 ZeroHedge | These Are The World's Most Militarized Economies | November 5, 2025:

"In 2024, the U.S., China, and Russia were the top countries by military spending, representing more than half of the global total.

Overall, global military expenditures hit a record $2.7 trillion, a 9.4% increase over the year. Amid rising geopolitical tensions, all five regions of the world increased their military spending for the second consecutive year.

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, shows the most militarized countries across three metrics, based on data from the Institute of Economics and Peace."

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🇩🇪🔫💬🇷🇺❌🇪🇺🪖 — 🇩🇪 BILD:

"Russia is capable of attacking NATO as early as tomorrow: Bundeswehr General

Lieutenant General of the Bundeswehr Alexander Zolfrank stated that Russia already has the forces for a limited strike on NATO territory.

“It is necessary to assess what Russia has and what it can do with it. Based on this, Russia could attack NATO territory on a limited scale as early as tomorrow”

— he said in an interview with Reuters.

According to him, if armaments continue to be built up, a large-scale attack could become a reality by 2029. At the same time, Zolfrank emphasized that everything depends on the behavior of the West and the alliance's ability to demonstrate strength.

The general noted that Moscow is already conducting hybrid warfare against NATO countries, using cyberattacks, sabotage, and disinformation.

“This method is aimed at sowing uncertainty, creating fear, causing damage, and infiltrating spies. It is a war based on fear”

— Zolfrank added.

Despite losses in Ukraine, according to the Bundeswehr, the Russian armed forces remain combat-capable, and the number of tanks allows for limited offensive actions.

Russia, Zolfrank added, continues its course to change the European security system and intends to increase the size of its army to 1.5 million people."

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🇨🇭 Swiss government rejects naturalisation reform proposal

The Swiss government wants cantons to continue to have the last say in naturalisation procedures. On Wednesday, it reiterated its rejection of the so-called "democracy initiative".

The democracy initiative wants to make naturalisation easier. It demands that naturalisation should be possible after five years of legal residence in Switzerland [instead of 10 years], regardless of the settlement permit held by the person.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-democracy/federal-council-stands-by-its-no-to-the-democracy-initiative/90283489

🤖 OpenAI Wants Federal Backstop for New Investments — WSJ

In other words, OpenAI wants a US government bailout in case those investments into data centers and chips don't pay out.

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🤖 OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman says his company is "too big too fail".

Altman also told that the U.S. government is the “insurer of last resort for AI financing".

The term "too big to fail (TBTF)" is a theory in banking and finance that asserts that certain corporations, particularly financial institutions, are so large and so interconnected with an economy that their failure would be disastrous to the greater economic system, and therefore should be supported by government when they face potential failure. The term emerged as prominent in public discourse following the 2008 financial crisis.

New economic data shows that without AI, the U.S. economy is in a recession, with as much as 63% of GDP growth coming from AI investment.

Altman is not wrong when he says that OpenAI is "too big to fail" because his company plummeting would certainly crash the American economy.

The question is, should he be bailed out? Should the American people be forced to pay to keep Altman's company running? Why shouldn't OpenAI be allowed to fail?

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🇺🇸❌🇳🇬 Trump: "We're gonna do things to Nigeria that Nigeria's not gonna be happy about, and may very well go into that now disgraced country guns a-blazing... I'm hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack it will be fast, vicious, and sweet."

📝: Nigeria has a lot of oil, located mostly in the separatist Christian Biafra region in the southeast. The Igbo people living in Biafra were not subject to the terror attacks of the jihadist Boko Haram terror group as the violence affects only the north of Nigeria.

The aggressive posturing against Nigeria is the result of the Igbo lobby and a backup in case the U.S. military fails to overthrow Maduro.

🔗 The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline)

🇺🇸🌍🇳🇬 The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) has drafted plans for an intervention in Nigeria, the primary target being ISWAP and, to a lesser extent, other Islamist groups such as JAS and decentralized bandit groups. Plans are divided into light, medium, and heavy options.

The light option is to continue to rely on the Nigerian army while providing additional military and financial support to help the government neutralize the threats.
The medium option would include drone strikes and joint operations with the Nigerian army against terrorist camps and positions. This, however, would be difficult because the US lost access to airbases in Niamey and Agadez in Niger. Other regional countries might permit use of their territory, but that is unlikely; the most feasible alternative would be to operate from the AFRICOM base in Djibouti.

The heavy option, and the least likely, would be to move an aircraft-carrier strike group into the Gulf of Guinea so fighter jets could carry out high-impact airstrikes against militant camps. That is constrained by carrier availability: the Gerald R. Ford is being moved to the southern Caribbean, other carriers are deployed in the Pacific or the Middle East, and some are undergoing maintenance.

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🇵🇱🪖 Poland launches military training for all citizens: "Most dangerous times since World War II"

https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland-und-internationales/polen-startet-militaer-training-fuer-alle-buerger-kurse-koennen-per-app-gebucht-werden-690c799d0a79f6e663e11e0c

🇺🇸🇻🇪 U.S. Senate blocks measure barring U.S. President Donald Trump from launching war on Venezuela.

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🇺🇸 FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇿 President Trump announces a trade deal between the US and Uzbekistan.

The deal includes $35 billion invested in the US over the next 3 years and $100 billion invested in the US over the next 10 years.

📝Uzbekistan has an annual GDP of $115 billion.

This would be like if China announced a $20 trillion trade deal.

📝 Trump is now approaching third world nations and signing fake trade deals worth 90% of their GDP.

They call it the “Altman strategy”.

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🇨🇳🤖🇺🇸 "Chinese stocks and gold are the best hedges against an AI meltdown," per Bank of America, $ BAC.

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🤖 Sam Altman was subpoenaed on stage:

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