Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-talks-about-joining-expanded-aukus-defence-chief-blair-says-2024-09-13/ Canadian Defence Minister Bill Blair has reported that Canada, among others, is being considered to join AUKUS, a security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The original members formed in an effort to lessen the growing grip that China has on the Indo-Pacific region. The expansion would focus on technological… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3277973/chinas-firms-seek-avoid-pitfalls-search-key-ev-metal-latin-america-analysts?module=Politics&pgtype=section Chinese companies are receiving resistance from Latin American states after setting out to obtain lithium from them. These countries include Chile, Bolivia, Mexico, and Peru. China has the largest electric vehicle market in the world and needs the lithium from Latin American countries, who have some of the world’s largest lithium reserves, to make them. The… Read more »
https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/nacionales/364541-ignacio-ramonet-sends-open-letter-to-us-president-joe-biden Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet wrote an open letter to U.S. President Joe Biden requesting the removal of Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism, a short list of countries the U.S. deems supportive of international terrorist acts. Casa de las Americas, an organization founded by the Cuban government after the Cuban Revolution for the purpose of bettering the state’s… Read more »
