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🇮🇱🌐❌🇾🇪🇾🇪 — 📰 Axios, citing an Israeli official: The raid was carried out in coordination with the United States and the international Coalition to confront the Houthi attacks.

🇺🇸👩‍💻📝 — 🇺🇸 NATO | NATO releases first ever quantum strategy | Quantum technologies are getting closer to revolutionizing the world of innovation and can be game-changers for security, including modern warfare. Ensuring that the Alliance is ''quantum-ready'' is the aim of NATO’s first-ever quantum strategy that was approved by NATO Foreign Ministers on 28 November. On Wednesday (17 January 2024), NATO released a summary of the strategy | January 16, 2024:

"The strategy outlines how quantum can be applied to defence and security in areas such as sensing, imaging, precise positioning, navigation and timing, improve the detection of submarines, and upgrade and secure data communications using quantum resistant cryptography.

Many of these technologies are already used in the private sector and have become the subject of strategic competition. NATO’s quantum strategy helps foster and guide NATO’s cooperation with industry to develop a transatlantic quantum technologies ecosystem, while preparing NATO to defend itself against the malicious use of quantum technologies.

Quantum is one of the technological areas that NATO Allies have prioritized due to their implications for defence and security. These include artificial intelligence, data and computing, autonomy, biotechnology and human enhancements, hypersonic technologies, energy and propulsion, novel materials, next-generation communications networks and space."

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🔴❌🇹🇼🧠 — 🇯🇵 Nikkei Asia | Huawei sues Taiwan's MediaTek over alleged patent infringement | Licensing is increasingly important revenue source for Chinese company | July 19, 2024:

"TAIPEI -- Huawei Technologies is suing Taiwanese mobile chip developer MediaTek over alleged infringement of its intellectual property patents, the latest example of the Chinese company's efforts to increase its collection of licensing fees and royalties.

Huawei, which holds patents for many key mobile technologies, filed the suit in a Chinese district court. MediaTek, the world's top developer of chips used in smartphones and other mobile devices, confirmed the case in a filing to the Taiwan Stock Exchange on Friday and said it would have no significant impact on the chipmaker, but declined to comment further on the matter.

No details on the lawsuit, including what damages Huawei may be seeking, have been made public.

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Another person with knowledge of the matter said Huawei has filed patent lawsuits against numerous companies, mainly to increase its sources of revenue after its smartphone business, once the second-largest in the world, was hit by U.S. export controls.

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Huawei has been stepping up its efforts to collect royalties since 2021, shortly after Washington began tightening its clampdown on the company. Its licensing and cross-licensing partners include European automakers such as Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, Audi, BMW and Porsche. It inked cross-licensing deals for 5G technologies with Oppo and Samsung last year."

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🇨🇳❗️🇪🇺 — 🇪🇺 Euronews | Von der Leyen is 'playing with fire' over Taiwan, China warns after her reelection | Beijing has taken issue with the political guidelines of Ursula von der Leyen, which call for the status quo in the Taiwan Strait to be respected | July 19, 2024:

"The re-election of Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president has already triggered the first international spat: China has denounced the political guidelines of her second mandate for containing "gross interference" in the country's internal affairs.

"Playing with fire on Taiwan is highly dangerous," Wang Lutong, the director general for European affairs at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Friday, one day after the Commission chief clinched a majority in Strasbourg.


"Meddling and even trying to join forces is by no means a right choice for Europe."

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🌐 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Patricia Marins: NATO needs to be concerned about the automation of the Russian military industry.

🔶️ The war in Ukraine has created a distinct class of weaponry, vastly different from the rest produced and utilized worldwide. A small group of countries has acquired highly guarded knowledge: Russia, Ukraine, the USA, Germany, and France. Other NATO countries have amassed tactical and operational knowledge, but this initial group has field experience on refining defense and offensive weaponry. Ukrainians possess unique tactical knowledge on maritime usage unmatched by any other nation. Russians share part of this knowledge, mainly focusing on defensive measures.

🔶️ Not long ago, I wrote about how Russians have evolved in the field, transitioning from traditional BTG formations to smaller tactical units and subsequently operations on a squadron level. However, Russian advancements have been most notable in electronic warfare, air defense systems, and ballistic and cruise missiles.

🔶️ It is precisely these advancements that attract Chinese interest. A significant portion of Chinese air defense comprises HQ9B systems, an enhanced version of the Soviet S-300.

🔶️ While the Chinese have refined this system and developed others using domestic technology, the war in Ukraine highlighted the inefficacy of unproven systems until battle-tested and improved in actual combat situations. Both Western and Russian systems have undergone numerous upgrades based on battlefield experience.

🔶️ Guided weaponry is no exception. For example, HIMARS rocket systems have undergone three upgrades to thwart Russian jamming systems that began obstructing all Western satellite-guided ammunition—a technology the Chinese would undoubtedly seek at any cost.

🔶️ There are also evasion techniques that Russian missions have successfully employed against Western systems, learned over time in warfare. Additionally, when it comes to employing less impactful armaments, knowledge on ammunition and armor also could interest the Chinese, albeit to a lesser extent. What would the Chinese be willing to negotiate with the Russians?

🔶️ The automation of Russian military factories would likely be a topic in such negotiations. Russia has recently begun automating the production of 152mm ammunition and long-range drones but this process is limited to a small portion of their scale. A full automation akin to what is seen in China today would exponentially boost the Russian military-industrial complex.

🔶️ As warfare reshapes global military power dynamics, it will be a challenge that NATO must address post-conflict. The transfer of knowledge gained in Ukraine is a valuable asset in this realm.

📎 Patricia Marins

🇺🇸❌🇺🇸🇮🇳 — Donald Trump says Kamala Harris will be easier to defeat than Biden, reports Reuters

➡️ Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told CNN on Sunday that he thinks Vice President Kamala Harris will be easier to defeat in November's election than Democratic President Joe Biden who stepped aside as his party's candidate.

➡️ A CNN reporter said on X that Trump made the comments to the network shortly after Biden announced his decision.

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🇦🇷🏴💥🌹🌐 — The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, accused the Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Rodrigo Valdés, of having "manifestly bad" intentions towards Argentina and of being allied with Latin American progressivism:

"There was complicity between the head of the IMF Argentina mission and the previous government. Rodrigo Valdés has manifestly bad intentions. He does not want Argentina to succeed. He has another agenda. We overachieve with everyone, but they preferred to support the disaster of (Sergio) Massa.

Why did the IMF allow Massa everything? We overachieve all the time, and they keep finding faults because this administration was aligned with the São Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group (left-wing)."

❗️ The Argentine president also recalled that Valdés was Chile's Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2017, during Michelle Bachelet's second term (2006-2010 and 2014-2018), when he "caused the disaster he caused in Chile."

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