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Morning Intelligence – The Gist Beijing’s “Justice Mission 2025” ring-fenced Taiwan today with jets, drones and long-range rockets—the sixth such encirclement since 2022 and the largest yet. The operation follows Washington’s record $11.1 billion arms package and Japan’s warning that any attac…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Palm Beach is about to host the most consequential photo-op since Yalta: Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives with a 20-point plan that Washington says is “90 % complete,” while Donald Trump eyes headlines and hard concessions. (reuters.com) Moscow just reminded both men who…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Taiwan’s 7.0-magnitude quake off Yilan at 23:05 local time rattled the global tech supply chain as much as it shook the island. Buildings swayed in Taipei, but the headline risk lay in TSMC’s chip fabs: the world’s pivotal foundry briefly halted lines for inspec…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Russian forces fired roughly 500 drones and 40 missiles at Kyiv overnight, killing two and fracturing heat and power grids just hours before President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due in Florida to seek a U.S-brokered cease-fire with Donald Trump. Zelenskyy calls the bomb…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Thailand and Cambodia’s eleventh-hour cease-fire, in force from noon Bangkok time, ends 20 days of the bloodiest border combat in a decade: 101 dead and more than 500,000 civilians uprooted from eight provinces on both sides. (reuters.com) I read the joint state…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Gold sprinted past $4,530 an ounce overnight, silver vaulted 4 % and platinum set a fresh record at $2,414 before dawn. The surge caps year-to-date gains of 71 % for bullion and 158 % for silver, eclipsing any calendar-year jump since the stagflation shock of 1979 (…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Washington’s attempt to weaponise immigration law against European digital-rights advocates has just met judicial resistance. Overnight, a U.S. federal judge blocked the deportation of Imran Ahmed—British head of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate—after the …

Evening Analysis – The Gist Nasry Asfura’s razor-thin victory in Honduras—40.3 % to Salvador Nasralla’s 39.5 %—caps a fraught three-week recount that forced 15 % of ballots into manual tally and drew OAS scrutiny.(reuters.com) His ascent, mid-wifed by Donald Trump’s public endorsement, extends…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Kyiv has floated a slimmed-down, 20-point peace blueprint—security guarantees modelled on NATO’s Article 5, $800 billion in U.S.–EU reconstruction funds, and a force ceiling of 800,000 troops—while signalling readiness to demilitarise swathes of Donbas if Moscow…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Oil’s Christmas-Eve bounce is more than a seasonal quirk. Brent has now climbed 6 % in eight days, touching $62.55 while WTI hit $58.58, its sixth straight gain. Traders are repricing risk after Washington’s 8-ship “blockade” squeezed Venezuelan exports and U.S. GDP…