GINC’s 2025 Global Fragility Ranking reveals the cities most at risk worldwide—highlighting urban centers where economic, environmental, and governance pressures converge to threaten stability and resilience.
QUICK TAKE · AI Summary Gaza City is ranked the world’s most fragile city in 2025, following extreme conflict, institutional collapse, and widespread humanitarian catastrophe. All five fragility dimensions—security, governance, socioeconomic, environmental, and infrastructure—are critically degraded, creating compounding risks and barriers to recovery. The next five years will
How Huawei is turning sanctions into strategy—reshaping global tech power through 5G, AI chips, and a self-reliant vision for China’s digital future.
China’s AI push has shifted from catching up at home to setting the rules abroad—melding chip self-reliance, state capital, and Digital-Silk-Road diplomacy into a single strategic engine.
National Credit Ratings updated July 2025
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Onebrief has raised $70 million in Series C funding, led by General Catalyst and Battery Ventures, to expand its AI-powered military planning platform, pushing the defense tech startup’s valuation to $1.1 billion amid growing demand for digital command infrastructure.
Drones
AI defense startup Helsing has raised €600 million in a Series D round to accelerate the development and deployment of its battlefield AI technologies, pushing its valuation to €12 billion and reinforcing its role in Europe’s defense innovation ecosystem.
China
China is constructing a vast, nuclear-hardened military command center near Beijing to unify its armed forces, modernize operations by 2027, and reshape regional security dynamics.
Insights
Anduril bets big on speed and scale with a $2.5B war chest—redefining defense manufacturing for the era of autonomous conflict.
Insights
China’s rapid build-out of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers represents a fundamental pillar of its national digital and economic strategy
Insights
China’s recent decision to tighten oversight over rare earth magnets marks a major escalation in the global contest for control over critical supply chains.
Insights
Ukraine’s drone strike on Russian airfields in June 2025 was bold and highly calculated. Above all, it demonstrated careful planning and precise execution.
Artificial Intelligence
As AI becomes ubiquitous, a fundamental question has emerged among policymakers, strategists, and investors: should AI be treated as a public utility?
National Defense Strategies
QUICK TAKE · AI SUMMARY The U.S. is pivoting from counter-terrorism to great power competition, focusing on China and Russia with a renewed emphasis on conventional deterrence, logistics, and forward-deployed forces. Future strategy depends on integrated deterrence and rapid tech adoption, requiring reforms in procurement, investment in AI and cyber,
Critical Technology
💡GINC's Critical Technology framework identifies the advanced systems, materials, and processes essential for a nation’s economic competitiveness, security, and technological sovereignty. Preliminary Assessment
Critical Technology
Advanced Integrated Circuit (IC) design and fabrication at sub-10 nanometre (nm) scale represents the frontier of semiconductor technology.
Critical Technology
Advanced Data Analytics refers to the use of sophisticated techniques and technologies to extract meaningful insights from vast and complex datasets.
Critical Technology
Protective Cyber Security Technologies encompass the tools, systems, and protocols designed to defend digital assets, networks, and critical infrastructure from cyber threats.