# Bronwen Maddox

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Artificial Intelligence, Real Fears: Is it time to slow down?

A call by leaders of the tech giants on the frontier of Artificial Intelligence to 'slow the pace' of its development has sparked debate over the risks associated with AI. Does AI represent an existential threat, and if so, how urgent are the warnings? Or can humanity harness this powerful technol…

China rising, America in decline? The Trump-Xi summit

President Donald Trump welcomes Xi Jinping to Washington with the US-China dynamic in a moment of historic flux. China is rising economically and militarily, while the US is mired in the Iran war, alienating allies and pursuing Trump's unpredictable trade and tariff disputes. What do the two leade…

Why the Houthis' Red Sea power play makes Iran even stronger

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels' capture of Yemen's port city of Mocha means that Iran now effectively controls two crucial waterways in the region – the Bab al-Mandab Strait to the Red Sea and thus the Suez Canal, as well as the Hormuz Strait. Why has this simmering conflict exploded again? What …

Monday Brief: It's Over: IRGC Mistake Confirms Trump's Hit

Susan Kokinda opens with the 26-page open letter Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps addressed to the American people weeks before the midterms, which the State Department dismissed as desperate and the Daily Wire read as a call to vote Democrat. She argues the letter tells a bigger story than…

Europe, Brazil and beyond: Is the populist wave gathering momentum?

The rightward movement in democracies in Europe and beyond shows little sign of slowing. Germany has elected its first far-right regional government in Saxony-Anhalt. In France, voter anger with Emmanuel Macron puts the Rassemblement National's Marine Le Pen in pole position for the presidency. In …

Saturday Wrap-Up: Midterms Can't Stop Him: Trump Unchained

Susan Kokinda opens with Chatham House's October 15 warning that President Trump could come out of the midterms "unshackled from electoral constraints," and Secretary of State Marco Rubio's answer in Mumbai: "we're no longer going to be defensive." The episode looks at the author of that warning, D…

Israel in deadlock: What next for a divided country?

Israel faces weeks of political horse-trading after the most pivotal election in the country's history delivered no clear result. Neither victorious nor vanquished, Benjamin Netanyahu is still prime minister and lives to attempt another coalition negotiation – and perhaps launch further strikes on …

US midterms: The beginning of the end for Trumpism?

American voters inflicted a crushing defeat on the Republican Party in the US midterm elections, signalling clear dissatisfaction with President Trump's agenda. Now many issues in US politics are up in the air – from the use of tariffs to policy on Iran, Ukraine and beyond. How will the Democrats …

What AI's nightmare November means for politics, power and business

American voters' aversion to data centres and suspicion of AI's potential to destroy jobs played a major role in the Republican Party's losses in the US midterms. Then the tech-heavy US stock market tumbled as investors became concerned that a Democrat-controlled congress might be less accommodatin…

What is America for?

America has long believed that it stands for more than itself, but can a common idea still hold the country together? Its traditions of exceptionalism, from American innocence to America First, sit alongside its role as a global superpower promoting liberal democracy through free markets, cultural …