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🇺🇸🇨🇳 US Tightens Restrictions on Chinese Data Center Equipment as AI Rivalry Deepens The United States is expanding its technology restrictions on China beyond advanced AI chips, targeting data center equipment and critical components as competition over artificial intelligence intensifies. A recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump restricts certain foreign-made grid equipment, including transformers and high-voltage circuit breakers, linked to China and other countries. Meanwhile, four US senators have introduced legislation seeking to prevent federal agencies from purchasing Chinese optical transceivers used in AI data centers. The measures come as Beijing also tightens controls surrounding its AI sector, including reported restrictions on overseas travel by families of top AI talent. Despite the tensions, Washington and Beijing have agreed to maintain dialogue on AI-related risks. Source: Asia Times #USChina #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TechWar

🚨 POLITICAL UPDATE 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Brazil Seeks Probe Into Alleged US Election Interference Brazil’s attorney general has called for an investigation into allegations that the US government sought to influence Brazil’s domestic politics by directing funds toward right-wing groups opposing the country’s Supreme Court. The move follows a Guardian report that identified a proposed $1 million US grant for projects described as countering “lawfare and censorship” in Brazil. Brazilian authorities said the allegations require investigation, particularly during the country’s ongoing election process. Brazil’s first-round presidential election is scheduled for October 4, 2026. Source: Al Jazeera #Brazil #USElectionInterference #BrazilElection #USPolitics

South Korean streamer Taemin hits an American checkout and has the cashier explain the tip screen. A $17.32 counter order comes with 18, 20, and 25 percent already on the tablet. #fyp #tippingculture #serverlife #servertok #america Follow DD+ on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@d.d_plus Follow DD+ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ddplusonig/ Follow DD+ on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ddplusthreads

🇨🇳🇷🇺 WHAT CHINA CAN'T BUY FROM ANYONE ELSE – And Why Russia Knows It "Junior partner." "Vassal state." The Western narrative on Russia-China is wrong — and the trade data proves it. 📊 34% vs 4% — China accounts for 34% of Russia's total trade. Russia accounts for just 4% of China's. On paper, asymmetric. In practice, it's more complicated than that. 🛢️ What China genuinely cannot replace: Overland energy corridors. The Power of Siberia pipeline doesn't pass through any chokepoint the US Navy can close. No Gulf route, no Malacca Strait, no Hormuz problem. 🌊 Sea lane vulnerability is China's Achilles heel — and Russia is the only major supplier that bypasses it entirely 🤝 The partnership is flexible by design — not an alliance in the Western sense, but a structural interdependence that gives Moscow leverage Western analysts consistently underestimate 🎥 Watch the full breakdown: https://youtu.be/CNqtCdt_uyA #China #Russia #BRICS #GlobalSouth #Multipolar #DeDollarisation #Energy #ThinkBRICS

🌐 Multilateralism, Regional Trade, Economic Sovereignty Draw Asian and African States Closer at 81st UNGA—Analysis (Moscow Bureau) – The 81st UNGA, which is the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations, was held in late September 2026 in New York. It attracted global leaders a... Read more → follow @ThinkBRICS

🇪🇺☢️ NATO CHIEF: "EUROPE SHOULD HAVE BOMBED IRAN ITSELF — AND WILL BE ABLE TO IN 10 YEARS" The head of a "defensive alliance" just openly advocated for Europe's right to wage wars of aggression. Mark Rutte at the Euronews Defence & Space Summit: "Europe was not able to take out the nuclear capability of Iran. We couldn't. We didn't have the capabilities. In 10 years, we can — and we should." Let that sink in: 🔹 A country that has never attacked Europe and whose nuclear programme the IAEA found no weapons evidence for 🔹 A "defensive alliance" openly planning offensive strike capability against sovereign nations 🔹 The same logic used by German Chancellor Merz in 2025: Israel was doing "the dirty work for us" #NATO #Rutte #Iran #Europe #GlobalSouth #BRICS #Multipolar #Resistance #ThinkBRICS

Ask anyone to name Russia's national drink and they'll instantly say vodka. But they're actually wrong. Tea has been the real national drink for almost four centuries, and Russia is still one of the largest tea consumers in the world. #history #teatok #historytok #russia #culture Follow DD+ on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@d.d_plus Follow DD+ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ddplusonig/ Follow DD+ on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ddplusthreads

🇺🇸🇪🇺 TRUMP IS BUILDING A NATO INSIDE NATO — AND EUROPE IS STARTING TO PANIC The "good allies" get a seat at the table. Everyone else gets frozen out. The Pentagon's Elbridge Colby has been quietly running a select NATO working group — inviting Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands — while locking out: 🔹 🇬🇧 The United Kingdom — excluded despite being one of NATO's largest military powers 🔹 🇫🇷 France — excluded despite nuclear capability and major defense spending 🔹 🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪 The Baltic states — excluded despite being on NATO's eastern frontline with Russia The criteria? Loyalty to Trump's priorities — not defense spending, not strategic importance. One excluded ally's diplomat: "We're doing everything that is being asked of us. We're trying to understand what the criteria is." #NATO #Trump #Europe #GlobalSouth #BRICS #Multipolar #Geopolitics #ThinkBRICS

🇮🇷 IRGC: "AMERICA'S EXPULSION FROM IRAQ IS THE PRELUDE TO ITS EXPULSION FROM ALL OF WEST ASIA" The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the US withdrawal from Iraq after 23 years: "America's presence not only brought no security — it was itself the source of insecurity, terrorism and instability in West Asia." The numbers Washington would rather forget: 🔹 4,419 US troops killed 🔹 $2.8 trillion spent 🔹 1 million+ Iraqi civilians dead 🔹 Zero WMDs ever found The IRGC's verdict: "These figures show America's heavy and disgraceful defeat." #Iraq #IRGC #Iran #US #GlobalSouth #Resistance #BRICS #Multipolar #ThinkBRICS

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🇮🇷🇺🇳🇪🇺 IRAN OFFERS NUCLEAR INSPECTORS FOR SANCTIONS RELIEF The gap between what's said in private and what's said in public tells you everything about where these talks actually stand. 🔹 Bloomberg: Iran's FM Araghchi privately floated allowing nuclear inspectors into bombed Iranian nuclear sites — in exchange for sanctions relief — during sideline meetings at the UN General Assembly with European and regional diplomats 🔹 IRNA (Iranian state media): An Iranian source denied nuclear issues of this kind were discussed at all #Iran #Nuclear #UN #Diplomacy #Sanctions #BRICS #GlobalSouth #ThinkBRICS

BRICS Policy Center/PUC-Rio researcher highlights cooperation among BRICS countries and expectations for the Chinese chairmanship In an article published by the Chinese newspaper People’s Daily on September 15, 2026, BRICS Policy Center/PUC-Rio researcher Ana Elisa Saggioro Garcia analyzed the trajectory of BRICS as a platform... O post BRICS Policy Center/PUC-Rio researcher highlights cooperation among BRICS countries and expectations for the Chinese...  Read more »

🌍 WHAT HAPPENS TO BRICS WHEN THE CAMERAS TURN OFF? The summit ends. The speeches are archived. The real work begins. 🔹 BRICS isn't just one annual meeting — throughout the year, ministers, central banks, working groups, and businesses are quietly building the architecture of a parallel world economy 🔹 The changes that matter don't make headlines — a company invoicing in yuan instead of dollars, two banks finding a new payment corridor, an infrastructure project financed outside of Wall Street 🔹 The right question isn't "will BRICS replace the EU?" — it's whether member countries are gaining more options: for trade, payments, financing, investment. 🔹 That's already happening — Russia–China at 99% local currency settlement, Brazil connecting Pix to Chinese and Russian systems, new trade corridors bypassing Suez 📖 Read the full piece: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/what-happens-to-brics-between-summits #BRICS #GlobalSouth #Multipolar #DeDollarisation #Geopolitics #ThinkBRICS

Marta Fernández, BRICS Policy Center/PUC-Rio researcher, analyzes BRICS’ role in reforming global governance in Sputnik Brasil article In an article published by the Sputnik Brasil portal on September 13, 2026, BRICS Policy Center/PUC-Rio researcher and professor at PUC-Rio’s Institute of International Relations (IRI/PUC-Rio), Marta Fernández, highlighted the... O post Marta Fernández, BRICS Policy Center/PUC-Rio researcher, analyzes BRICS’ role in refor...  Read more »

'Nelson Mandela' high school ENGULFED in flames in France's Nantes as riots enter second week. #France #Riots #Protests

BRICS Policy Center researcher publishes article on the 2026 BRICS Civil Forum Professor Carolina Salgado, a researcher at the BRICS Policy Center (BPC) at PUC-Rio, published an article regarding the 2026 meeting of the BRICS Civil Forum, held in India. As a... O post BRICS Policy Center researcher publishes article on the 2026 BRICS Civil Forum apareceu primeiro em brq.  Read more »

🇺🇸🤡 TRUMP'S UNHINGED INTERVIEW: "I Wanted to Go Further" – Admits Iran War Is Open-Ended In a revealing TIME interview, Trump just admitted what the world suspected: the war on Iran has no end in sight – because he wanted it that way. 🗣️ On why the war is taking 7 months instead of 6-8 weeks: "Only because I wanted to go further. I took them out. I could have stopped then, but I wanted to go further." 🗣️ On rejecting Iran's ceasefire: "Things that I wouldn't have approved a year ago I wouldn't have today… It's not good enough. Nearly." 🗣️ On "annihilating" Iran: "Yeah, I would do that. It's possible." 🇸🇦🇮🇱 "If I weren't president, Saudi Arabia wouldn't be here right now. Neither would Israel. They'd be wiped off the face of the planet." #Trump #Iran 🇮🇷 #TIME #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #Hormuz #BRICS #GlobalSouth #EmpireInDecline #Geopolitics

🌐 BRICS could serve as prototype for building future world order — Putin The Russian leader stressed that BRICS' share of the world economy is steadily growing Read more→ Follow @ThinkBRICS

BRICS Policy Center/PUC-Rio researcher Ana Garcia publishes article in The Conversation on BRICS and international investment On September 11, 2026, BRICS Policy Center/PUC-Rio researcher Ana Saggioro Garcia published the article “In India, BRICS seeks an alternative to the old rules of international investment amid growing geopolitical... O post BRICS Policy Center/PUC-Rio researcher Ana Garcia publishes article in The Conversation on BRICS and inter...  Read more »

🇷🇺 PUTIN'S TRUTH BOMBS: On Multipolarity, NATO, and the Nuclear Threat 🗣️ "It's not us who started the war, but the war was started against us." 🎯 "NATO should not have started military exploration on our historic territories… They should not have used this illegal regime created through this coup." 💔 "Killing of Russians and destruction of Russia should not be turned into a state ideology." 🔫 "If a gun is hanging on the stage, sooner or later it must go off." 🛡️ "As soon as the USSR collapsed, aggressive circles within NATO took it as a signal that Russia shouldn't be included in the family of civilized peoples." 🇷🇺 "The Russian military has never been the first to deliberately attack civilian infrastructure." #Russia 🇷🇺 #Putin #Multipolarity #NATO #Ukraine #BRICS #GlobalSouth #NuclearRisk #Geopolitics