Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu is warning of a global struggle between democracies and autocracies due to the Ukraine war, calling on Europe to help secure peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
China has added an estimated 60 nuclear weapons to its stockpile between January 2022 and 2023, with SIPRI predicting continued growth in the next decade, despite Russia and the United States still holding the majority of global nuclear warheads.
Wildfires in Canada have caused a significant decrease in solar power generation in parts of the eastern US, with energy output down by more than 50% due to the smoke cover.