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Is DeepSeek the next US national security threat?
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Is DeepSeek the next US national security threat?

Before DeepSeek released its R1 model last month, America’s long-term AI dominance felt like a sure thing.

Medical workers treat injured people at Ameth Bek hospital after a drone strike on a market in the disputed Abyei region along the border between South Sudan and Sudan, October 19, 2026.
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South Sudan suffers drone strike, Romania finally gets a government, Colombia revives sea beef with Nicaragua

South Sudan is accusing neighboring Sudan of launching a drone strike that killed at least 73 people at a market in Abyei, a disputed, oil-rich region of roughly 4,000 square miles claimed by both countries.

China escalates on Taiwan; US-China relations get worse
Quick Take

China escalates on Taiwan; US-China relations get worse

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: The biggest story of the week is the US-China relationship: the most important, most powerful two countries in the world, right now with their worst bilateral relationship, frankly, since Tiananmen Square. It's a crisis on the back of the Pelosi visit with very significant escalation by the Chinese across the board, but it's also very carefully calculated escalation and that's pretty important. It means that we're very unlikely to see military confrontation or some form of potential war between the two countries, but it is also something that's likely to persist and become more problematic over time.