December 30, 2025

China has held its largest military drills ever, named “Justice Mission 2025,” near Taiwan with ships and aircraft. The exercises include live-fire rocket launches and rehearsing a complete blockade of the island’s main ports. The move is in response to a large arms sale contract signed between the US and Taiwan. Flights and shipping routes have been disrupted, but Taiwan’s military is on high alert. On both sides of the strait, and in other regional capitals, attention is being paid to China as it continues to experiment with ways to assert its authority over the region by 2027.

Khaleda Zia, the first woman to become prime minister of Bangladesh, died Tuesday morning at age 80. She lost her battle with heart and kidney problems in a Dhaka hospital. Zia was instrumental in politics for more than four decades and steered her party across the deadliest of times. Her death has occurred just as her son has returned from exile, and ahead of new elections in the country. National leaders have hailed her as a champion of democracy and women’s rights.

Nvidia has finished buying Intel shares for an amount of five billion dollars. They made a deal to do this back in September. Nvidia bought 214 million shares of Intel for twenty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents for each share. This is really good for Intel because they have had a lot of problems and spent a lot of money lately. N was able to finish the deal after the United States government said it was okay this month. The deal is now complete. That is good news for Intel. Nvidia buying Intel shares is a thing and it will help Intel a lot. While Nvidia’s stock dipped slightly, the investment marks a rare partnership between two major tech rivals.