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China’s Male Matchmakers and the End of ‘Marrying Up’
Geopolitika · The Diplomat · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Think-tank

A new wave of matchmaking influencers explicitly treats marriage as a business transaction – and they brutally judge clients’ prospects accordingly.

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Novi ukrajinski ministar obrane mogao bi ostati bez ključnih ljudi
Balkan · Index.hr · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

NAKON smjene Mihajla Fedorova, novi ministar obrane Jevhen Hmara mogao bi se suočiti s kadrovskim problemima jer Fedorovljev tim planira otići s njim na nove projekte.

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China & Taiwan Update, August 18, 2026
Sukobi · ISW · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · OSINT

Toplines Taiwan’s opposition-controlled Legislative Yuan (LY) passed the 2026 general budget after nearly a year-long delay and approved the Cabinet’s full $2 billion drone budget with…

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Will Washington’s tech crackdown test fragile US-China truce?
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Ahead of next month’s expected summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington, a low profile US regulatory agency has opened a new front in the technology battle between the world’s two superpowers, even as it attempts to avoid sabotaging the…

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China tightens border crossings after Meta's play for AI startup Manus
Geopolitika · Nikkei Asia · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti
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Death and alleged torture of man in detention sparks protests in Syria
Geopolitika · The Guardian · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Picture showing White Helmets volunteer unconscious and with bruises on his body went viral Syrians have protested over the death of a man who was arrested and allegedly beaten by security forces, sparking widespread anger at a practice thought to have ended under the regime of B…

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Kineski roboti impresionirali su publiku. Ulagače sad zanima mogu li stvarno raditi
Balkan · Index.hr · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

KINESKI humanoidni roboti sele se s pozornica u tvornice kako bi dokazali svoju ekonomsku isplativost i radnu vrijednost kupcima i ulagačima.

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Uganda’s Succession Plan Is Already Underway
Geopolitika · Foreign Policy · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Think-tank

The president’s son is wielding increased power with impunity.

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Meet the Chinese AI star who splashed a reported US$70m on a California mansion
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Tony Wu Yuhuai, the China-born co-founder of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence lab, sparked discussions across Chinese social media after reportedly spending US$70 million on a six-bedroom Californian mega-mansion. The property deal, the largest so far this year in the Bay Area…

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So what’s the strategy for democracy in 2026?
Geopolitika · Atlantic Council · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Think-tank

Host Matthew Kroening is joined by Damon Wilson, president and CEO of the National Endowment for Democracy, to discuss the state of global democracy in 2026. Wilson explains why strong democratic allies are critical to the security of the United States. The post So what’s the str…

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Philippine school shooter kills fellow student and himself in livestreamed attack
Geopolitika · The Guardian · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Country’s second fatal school shooting in two months took place in southern city of ⁠Zamboanga A student livestreamed himself shooting and killing another pupil in a classroom in the southern Philippines before taking his own ⁠life, ​the second school attack in the country in les…

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UK risks running out of gas by 2030s, ministers told
Geopolitika · The Guardian · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Government assessment warns of supply shock that could leave homes and businesses without gas within a decade Great Britain risks running out of gas in the 2030s despite its growing clean energy sources, unless ministers take “unprecedented” action to guard against a future gas s…

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Trumpova administracija planira rudarenje na golemom području Tihog oceana
Balkan · Index.hr · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

AMERIČKO Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova predložilo je prodaju koncesija za dubinsko rudarenje kod Sjevernomarijanskih otoka radi osiguravanja domaćih zaliha ključnih minerala.

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Klimatske katastrofe gutaju milijarde u Europi. Plaćat će ih građani
Balkan · Index.hr · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

VELIKE štete koje u Europi uzrokuju sve nepredvidljivije vremenske prilike netko će morati platiti, a budući da je većina tih gospodarskih gubitaka neosigurana, troškovi će vjerojatno morati biti pokriveni iz državnih blagajni.

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NATO strahuje od najgoreg scenarija: Istodobni napad Rusije na Europu i Kine na Tajvan
Balkan · Vecernji list · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Zapadni vojni stručnjaci upozoravaju na mogućnost scenarija za koji, tvrdi američki novinar Simon Shuster, SAD i Europa nemaju dovoljno razrađen plan. Moskva bi napala članicu NATO-a u istočnoj Europi, dok bi Peking istodobno krenuo na Tajvan

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Hong Kong court orders defunct Apple Daily to pay HK$1.5 million over defamatory articles
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

A Hong Kong court has ordered the defunct Apple Daily newspaper to pay HK$1.5 million in damages to a listed company and two senior executives over 10 defamatory articles that accused them of spying on the city’s pro-democracy activists at Beijing’s behest. In a written judgment …

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‘Die on the road, not in hospital’: Chinese man takes paralysed wife on epic road trip
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

A man from eastern China has spent a decade travelling with his partially paralysed wife, claiming that life on the road has made her “100 times” more spirited. Liu Peijin, 69, a former serviceman from Weifang in Shandong province, dedicated 18 years to the military, much of that…

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Taiwan launches first live-fire exercise with first-person view drones
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Taiwan’s army has for the first time used first-person view (FPV) drones against armoured vehicles in a live-fire exercise, adopting tactics pioneered during the Ukraine war to strengthen its asymmetric capabilities against the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The exercise on Mond…

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Top Chinese general draws on Jiang’s legacy to highlight importance of loyalty in military
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

China’s most senior general Zhang Shengmin has invoked the late former president Jiang Zemin’s response to the collapse of the Soviet Union and first Gulf war in an article emphasising the importance of party unity and military reform in the face of external threats. This month h…

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Sydney Swans will sanction players for ‘serious breach’ over sexual assault allegations
Geopolitika · The Guardian · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Club’s board meets on Tuesday night to decide penalties after league boss calls reports ‘deeply concerning’ The Sydney Swans AFL club will sanction players for “serious breach” of standards over an incident that led to a report of sexual assault. Victorian police on Tuesday confi…

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Hong Kong 5-year plan should have Northern Metropolis tax breaks, listing reforms: HKICPA
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) has urged the government to introduce tax incentives to help develop the Northern Metropolis and to improve the stock exchange’s listing regime to further cement the city’s role in international finance. The organis…

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PLA troops sent gold, New Taiwan and US dollars in ‘wartime financial support’ drill
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

The People’s Liberation Army used a drone to deliver cases of cash and gold bars in a field during a “wartime financial support” drill apparently simulating a Taiwan operation, according to a state media report. A multi-rotor drone was used to drop the camouflage cases at designa…

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Baidu’s quarterly revenue drops 4% as AI cloud surge fails to offset advertising slump
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Chinese tech giant Baidu on Tuesday posted a 4 per cent year-on-year decline in second-quarter revenue, as continued weakness in advertising outweighed growth in its artificial intelligence cloud operations, highlighting intensifying competition in China’s tech sector. Revenue fo…

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Hong Kong’s population edges up 0.3% but births fall below 30,000 for first time
Geopolitika · South China Morning Post · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Vijesti

Hong Kong’s population rose slightly by 0.3 per cent year on year to more than 7.5 million by mid-2026 but the number of babies born fell by 15.6 per cent to below 30,000 for the first time on record, despite government incentives to boost the birth rate. The government on Tuesda…

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How Southeast Asia and the Gulf Can Shape the Future of AI
Geopolitika · The Diplomat · Kina · 18. kolovoza 2026. · Think-tank

Neither region can compete directly with China and the United States, but together they have the potential to show how middle powers can shape the AI economy.

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