Even if all the rumors come true that Xi Jinping won’t be Chinese President anymore, it would be quite irrelevant as he will still be in charge of the PLA & the Chinese Communist Party. And these are the two main pillars of a totalitarian control (plus a few more key features).

Austria is already in the deindustrialization phase next to being the only European country in recession and with -0,3% economic growth outlook. This is self-inflicted and structural according to Georg Knill from IV.
It also reveals structural & systemic decline path of Europe.

Polish PM Tusk has officially announced the introduction of controls at the German and Lithuanian borders, until further notice.

“I can tell you that I was in the room when Vice President [JD] Vance spoke to Prime Minister Modi on the night of May 9,” Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said, denying US President Donald Trump’s claim that India agreed to a ceasefire with Pakistan under US trade pressure. “There…

Taiwan will simulate a Chinese blockade and invasion of the democratic island in its annual military and civil defence drills next week, as President Lai Ching-te warned on Tuesday the island was already facing China's "war without gun smoke". The annual Han Kuang exercises…

In the first half of the year, Russia became the fourth largest supplier of LNG to the European Union (EU). Total supplies of Russian gas to the EU amounted to 19.3 billion cubic meters. Norway supplied the EU with 47.95 bcm of gas, the USA – 40.5 bcm, Algeria – 19.9 bcm.