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September 2, 2025

Indonesia Unrest, China’s Trump Gambit & Modi’s Pivot

Public outrage over an Indonesian courier’s death spotlights elite impunity, while Beijing leverages U.S. turmoil and Modi deepens ties with China and Russia amid a shifting global order.

🫂 Social Issues

Delivery Driver’s Death Unleashes Rage at Indonesia’s Elites - Bloomberg.com

Indonesia delivery driver's death sparks anger at nation's elites

Bloomberg

11. Mindset or paradigm

Outrage over a gig-worker’s death exposes and potentially shifts deep cultural assumptions about class privilege, policing and worker value, opening space for paradigm change toward equity-focused governance.

11-year-old fatally shot after doorbell prank at Houston home

NBC News

8. Rules of the System

A child’s death after ringing a doorbell spotlights gaps in firearm regulation and enforcement; revising rules governing access and accountability can directly curb similar incidents.

🌐 International Affairs

Modi meets Xi as India strengthens China, Russia ties amid Trump uncertainty

Bloomberg BBC News

9. Power to change the system structure

By forging alternative alliances and institutional channels, states such as India can redesign both the regional power map and the information architecture that shapes perception and trust. This structural rewiring unlocks strategic autonomy and cooperative breakthroughs more decisively than incremental policy tweaks because it changes who interacts with whom, on what terms, and with what credibility.

Deadly Afghanistan earthquake kills hundreds and levels villages

CBS News NBC News

2. Sizes of Buffers and Stabilizing Stocks

Heavy casualties show that existing buffers—quake-resistant housing, medical supplies, shelters, and trained responders—are too small to absorb seismic shocks. Expanding these physical and logistical reserves would let the system cushion future disasters, sharply reducing deaths and injuries.

China seeks to rally leaders against U.S. order amid Trump turmoil

The Washington Post

10. Goals of the system

Beijing’s effort to rally leaders around an alternative, multipolar vision challenges the existing U.S.-led goal of maintaining a unipolar rules-based order; redefining the system’s overarching objective can ripple through trade, security and governance norms.

Israel says it killed longtime Hamas military spokesman

The Washington Post

7. Information Flows

Eliminating Hamas’s longtime spokesperson disrupts the group’s ability to control messaging, recruit support, and coordinate operations, making information access and narrative control a high-leverage intervention in the conflict system.

🏛️ Politics and Governance

Robert Mueller battling Parkinson's; House panel withdraws subpoena

ABC News Axios

8. Rules of the System

Altering the “Rules of the System,” exemplified by retracting a congressional subpoena that prevents Robert Mueller from testifying, reshapes the incentives and constraints that define executive-legislative power dynamics. By closing this vital information channel, it weakens the feedback loop essential for lawmakers and the public to monitor and correct governmental power, undermining democratic accountability.

Ukraine arrests suspect in ex-parliament speaker's murder

Al Jazeera English

8. Rules of the System

Swift arrest for the high-profile murder signals enforcement of legal rules that deter political violence and reinforce public trust in governance structures.

💰 Economy and Finance

U.S. tariff outlook clouded after court ruling, markets react

CNBC

8. Rules of the system

Court decisions that abruptly switch tariffs on or off redefine the formal constraints under which companies trade, steering investment, sourcing, and pricing strategies.

China's private factory PMI unexpectedly returns to growth

Bloomberg

6. Gain Around Positive Feedback Loops

Manufacturing rebounds can reinforce investment, employment, and consumption in a self-amplifying loop. Policy tools that fine-tune credit, tariffs, or stimulus directly alter the loop’s gain, stabilizing or accelerating growth.

🏢 Business and Industry

BYD profit drop raises concerns about automaker's outlook

Bloomberg

5. Strength of negative feedback loops

BYD’s profit plunge is a dampening signal that could curb over-expansion and price wars; tuning subsidies or regulations that affect these profit feedbacks can stabilize the sector.

🎭 Culture and Entertainment

Alabama defense struggles vs. FSU blamed on missed assignments

247Sports

5. Strength of Negative Feedback Loops

Identifying gaps where players ‘weren’t doing their job’ highlights the need for tighter corrective feedback between game-day outcomes and training adjustments, a leverage point that can quickly stabilize on-field performance.

Newcastle’s Alexander Isak poised for record move to Liverpool

NBCSports.com

1. Constants, parameters, numbers

A record transfer fee recalibrates the numeric benchmarks that govern player valuations, influencing future negotiations and wage structures throughout the league.

Article Links

  1. Delivery Driver’s Death Unleashes Rage at Indonesia’s Elites - Bloomberg.com
  2. 11-year-old shot dead after ringing doorbell and running from Houston home, officials say - NBC News
  3. India's Modi Shores Up Ties With China, Russia in Defiance of Trump - Bloomberg.com
  4. Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping meet: Donald Trump as the wildcard and other takeaways for India-China relationship - BBC
  5. Powerful earthquake rocks Afghanistan, killing more than 800 and destroying villages, officials say - CBS News
  6. At least 250 killed in 6.0-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan - NBC News
  7. China tries to use Trump turmoil to unite leaders against U.S.-led order - The Washington Post
  8. Israel says it killed longtime spokesman of Hamas’s military wing - The Washington Post
  9. House Oversight has withdrawn subpoena for Robert Mueller; new report says he has Parkinson's disease - ABC News
  10. Mueller's family tells NYT he has Parkinson's disease - Axios
  11. Ukraine arrests suspect in former parliamentary speaker’s murder - Al Jazeera
  12. CNBC Daily Open: Tariff uncertainty intensifies with the U.S. court's ruling - CNBC
  13. China’s Private Factory Gauge Unexpectedly Returns to Growth - Bloomberg.com
  14. BYD Profit Drop May Be Worrying Sign of Things to Come - Bloomberg.com
  15. Inside Bama's defensive struggles vs. FSU: linebacker points to details, 'some people weren’t doing their job' - 247Sports
  16. Alexander Isak set for Premier League record move from Newcastle to Liverpool - NBC Sports
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