″🟢 Taiwan defense rehearsals, Israel-Syria ceasefire, IMO Gold at OpenAI | Global Risks Weekly Roundup #29/2025.” by Nuño Sempere, Vidur Kapur, belikewater, Tolga Bilge, scott eastmanphoto.com

Executive summary Taiwan conducted its largest-ever defense drills to prepare for a possible Chinese invasion, while the US has been pushing Japan and Australia to clarify whether they would get involved in a US-China war over Taiwan. Forecasters estimated the probability of a Chinese invasion by 2027 conditional on Japan saying it would not intervene to be 11.5%, and 22% conditional on Trump or the Defense Secretary saying the US would not intervene. In the Middle East, the Houthis continue to attack Israel, and Israel responded today with strikes on a Houthi-controlled port in Yemen. Israel also intervened in Syria following renewed sectarian violence between Druze and Sunni Bedouin groups, later reaching a ceasefire deal with the Syrian government. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent and [...] ---Outline:(00:21) Executive summary(01:32) Geopolitics(01:35) Asia-Pacific(03:43) Middle East(05:47) Europe(06:52) United States(08:20) Africa(08:30) Technology(14:21) Biorisk(14:40) Economy --- First published: July 21st, 2025 Source: https://blog.sentinel-team.org/p/taiwan-defense-rehearsals-israel --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.