YouTube — 2026-07-28#

Watch First#

Singapore: Strategy in an Age of Great Power Competition from the Hoover Institution is an absolute must-watch for anyone tracking US-China relations. Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan delivers a masterclass in strategic empathy, explaining how small nations can balance superpower rivalries without being forced into a binary choice or becoming vassal states.

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News & Business#

The Wall Street Journal’s How This $140M Company Sold Shares of Homes It Didn’t Own | WSJ uncovers how the crypto platform RealToken tokenized rundown Detroit properties to foreign investors while allegedly leaving tenants to live in unsafe conditions. On the geopolitical front, The New York Times explains in The Iran War Just Put Another Key Oil Route in Danger how Houthi blockades in the Red Sea are threatening Saudi Arabia’s alternative oil export routes. In Chinese-language commentary, LIFEANO CLUB’s 袁Sir聊清荷联军：满清如何勾结境外势力？#lifeano漫聊 260728 offers a fascinating look at the 17th-century Qing-Dutch military alliance against the Ming-loyalist Zheng regime in Taiwan.

Learning & Ideas#

In 作为华人国家新加坡为何不亲华，晓松谈鲜为人知的南洋大学消亡史，新加坡传统华人的最后阵地, Xiaosong provides essential cultural context on the demise of Nanyang University and the historical struggle of traditional Chinese immigrants to preserve their language and education in Singapore. For an optimistic take on the future, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings argues in Why AI Is an Even Bigger Deal Than You Think | Reed Hastings | TED that AI-driven individualized tutoring will revolutionize education by replacing the flawed mass teaching model. Meanwhile, BBC Earth’s 10 Incredible Wolf Moments | BBC Earth offers a visually stunning look at the complex pack dynamics and brutal reality of Arctic wolves hunting muskox and caribou in extreme conditions.

Tech & AI#

Zhang Xiaojun’s marathon Chinese podcast 148. 对游凯超3小时访谈：开源Infra、和模型Co-design 、“如果vLLM失败，我们会后悔一辈子” is a brilliant deep dive into the origins of the vLLM open-source project and the intense infrastructure demands of modern AI models. CNBC’s How Anduril Is Building the Autonomous Battlefield | CEO Brian Schimpf explores how Silicon Valley startups are challenging traditional defense contractors by prioritizing software, AI, and iteration speed. Also from CNBC, How Retail Investors Are Using AI To Make Trades looks at how automated AI tools are moving from merely giving stock advice to actively managing retail portfolios.

Everything Else#

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