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€10 order, €30 tariff. The EU has just approved the mother of tariffs for Aliexpress, Shein and Temu

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In 2021, the European Union modified the VAT regulations for businesses like AliExpress stop benefiting from the same exemption for packages worth less than 22 euros. Five years later, the measures for products entering Europe duty-free will completely change. The measure. The Council of the European Union has given the green light to a new regulation on customs duties for items contained in small packages entering the EU. “The new rules respond to the fact that These packages currently enter the EU duty free, resulting in unfair competition for EU sellers“ According to the Council, the measure is intended to support EU companies and “will close avenues for unscrupulous sellers.” The three euros. The figure is very specific: three euros of provisional customs fixed on items contained in small packages valued at less than 150 euros. According to the EU, more than 91% of these small shipments come from China. The key is that those three euros are not per package, they are per different product. You order a package with two mobile phone cases valued at four euros You also order a tempered glass for one euro In the event that you order 10 products for 1 euro but they are different, you would not pay 10 euros, you would pay 40 (30 in tariffs). Starting July 1 you will not pay five euros, you will pay those five euros plus another six (11), when ordering two different products. The dates. The fixed provisional customs duty of three euros will be applied to all product categories, without exception, between July 1, 2026 and July 1, 2028. Once the new EU Customs Data Center comes into operation, the duty will go from being provisional to a normal customs rate. Because. According to the statement, the EU is struggling to reform its customs system in order to cope with “the significant pressure arising from increased trade flows.” A measure that will affect giants like Temu, AliExpress and Shein, kings of electronic commerce in Spain. In Xataka | Europe has proposed to become technologically independent from the US: And it has started with the most difficult thing: chips

inviting to “dinner” is increasingly becoming inviting to order on Glovo

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It’s Saturday afternoon. The sun begins to set and in the living room of a shared apartment, the Catan board It is spread out on the low table. We are four friends. The conversation has drifted, as almost always lately, towards uncertainty: the price of rentals, geopolitical instabilityhow difficult “everything” is. Suddenly, there is silence. It’s 8:30 p.m. and hunger is pressing. A decade ago, someone would have gotten up to the kitchen. “I have pasta, shall we make a quick sauce?” the host would have said. Today, no one moves. Almost by a synchronized reflex, three phones are unlocked at the same time. Nobody wants to cook. Nobody wants to stain. And, above all, no one wants to wait. Within minutes, a delivery person will be at the door. We have outsourced the most basic act of survival and socialization: feeding ourselves. It’s not that we became lazy overnight. The structure of our consumption has changed radically. If we look at the x-ray of Spain, the data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) draw an ascending curve that is dizzying, the consumption of prepared dishes has grown by 514.8% since 2004. In the last two decades, we have gone from seeing convenience food as an emergency solution to making it the base of our nutritional pyramid. In 2024, each Spaniard consumed on average almost 17 kilos of prepared food per year. The penetration of this habit is absolute. According to data from the consulting firm Kantar“ready to eat” already reaches 98.6% annual penetration. Virtually all Spanish consumers resort to it. The point is that we no longer look for flavor, or even health as an absolute priority (although it is valued). He drivers The main thing, in 85% of cases, is convenience. Six out of ten Spanish households openly declare “not having enough time to cook.” We don’t buy food, we buy time. The monopoly of “not cooking”: how Mercadona kept half of the cake On this game board, there is an undisputed winner who saw the future before anyone else. Mercadona, with its “Ready to Eat” section, has achieved a dominant positioncapturing 51.2% of the market share in the distribution of ready meals. Juan Roig not only sells ingredients; Now sell the time that you don’t have—or don’t want to dedicate—to cooking them. This brings us to the prophecy that the president of Mercadona launched a year ago and that sounded like a death sentence: “In the middle of the 21st century there will be no kitchens.” Roig maintains that, in the future, houses will not have space to cook because we will simply arrive at them with the food already made. The industry seems to be betting everything on this card: the Familia Martínez group, Mercadona supplier, is investing 150 million euros in facilities to manufacture roasts and gratins on an industrial scale. This trend has transformed even historical giants. Telepizza, the pioneer that taught us to order food by phone in the 90s, has entered the red in 2024. The paradox is cruel: they lose money in the golden age of delivery because the market has been saturated. They no longer compete against another pizzeria, they compete against all types of gastronomy delivered to your door in 30 minutes. Roig’s prophecy is not science fiction, it is current urban planning. Our own homes are expelling us from the stoves. Domestic architecture has undergone a radical bifurcation explained perfectly in a report by elDiario.es: the “decorated” kitchen and the “waste” kitchen. On the one hand, in luxury or renovated apartments for tourist rental, we see immaculate kitchens, open to the living room, designed to be photographed but not used. As the architect Luis Lope de Toledo explains: “Many contemporary kitchens seem designed to be photographed, not to be stained (…) When the kitchen becomes an aspirational symbol rather than a tool for living, it loses its authenticity.” On the other hand, the reality of housing precariousness in large cities pushes towards the model kitchenless (without kitchen). In the growing “mini apartments” and studios, cooking space is reduced to a minimum. The architect Laura Pato points out the harsh reality of the real estate market: “It is very common to see apartments that only have a stove and most do not have an oven.” If your kitchen is a narrow, unventilated hallway or a corner in your bedroom, the app of delivery It stops being a leisure option and becomes an infrastructure necessity. Saying goodbye to the aspiration of cooking If industrial investment is face A of this phenomenon, face B is found in second-hand platforms. Wallapop has been filled with kitchen robots Thermomix of previous models (TM5, TM31) at knockdown prices. At first glance, it might seem that there is a culinary resistance that seeks to equip itself cheaply. But a more cynical—and probably more realistic—reading suggests the opposite: it is a failed operation. Thousands of users are getting rid of an appliance that cost more than 1,000 euros and that promised to make cooking easier, realizing that even with a robot, you have to peel, clean and wait. The Thermomix requires planning that the average user no longer has. Selling the robot is the final act of giving in to immediacy. The decline of cuisine brings with it the death of a sacred ritual in Spain: the after-dinner meal and the traditional structure of meals. According to the Gastrometer 2025 by Just Eathe delivery It is no longer a weekend treat but has become part of the work and family routine. But the most alarming thing is how we eat. The Ministry of Agriculture confirms an extreme simplification: Half of the meals we eat during the week are already single dishes. In the case of dinners, the figure skyrockets: 7 out of 10 times we have a single dish for dinner. We have eliminated the first, the second and the dessert. The dining room table, that piece of furniture that once presided … Read more

Taking an important call in a traffic jam is the order of the day. In 1990, a company in Barcelona already offered this service

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Nowadays, as soon as we have some down time, we turn to our mobile: either to scroll infinitely on Instagram or to catch up on email. Although what defined the basis of today’s smartphones was the first iPhone in 2007, the professional point began before, with the blackberry 5810 and your email in 2002 or we can even go back to Nokia 9000 ’96, which introduced the keyboard and its business approach. The late 90s were the beginning of turning the mobile phone into an everyday object. I’m driving and I need a call now. Of course, back in the 90s, carrying a cell phone in the car and answering a work call was unthinkable. Or not, because someone thought of it an exclusive telephone service for drivers in Barcelona pre-Olympic Games. The target audience was those people who were so busy that they could not afford to be disconnected while traveling through the congested business areas of the city. The operation. As they narrate on the Catalan regional television 3Cat, if in the middle of a traffic jam you were lucky enough to find one of those people in white overalls on a scooter, with a fanny pack and the phone stuffed in a shoulder bag, you could ask them. A uniform as characteristic as the backpacks of today’s delivery drivers, but much less common: at that time there were only five workers moving through the busiest traffic points in Barcelona, ​​although they wanted to increase it to 25. If you are standing, they leave you the headset. And if you move, they lend you the device and follow you until you complete the call. The price of the service was 25 pesetas and the minimum call price is 300 pesetas. Because? To begin with, because in 1990 if you wanted to call on the street what there was were booths and analog technology, in Spain specifically MoviLine: the first mobile operator to deploy the original 1G network, owned by Telefónica. And if we talk about devices, the mythical Motorola MicroTAC It was a status symbol for executives. A symbol measuring 23 centimeters and weighing 350 grams. Yes, there were some mobile phones, but they were heavy, with very long antennas and batteries that barely lasted a couple of hours in conversation. On the other hand, having a phone installed in the car was expensive and niche. But the business was not just the telephone, but mobility and time. As businessman Josep Marí says, his idea was “to create the need to find a mobile phone to be able to call to work, home or wherever.” Ahead of his time. This “Automatic Mobile Telephony” service was ahead of its time in that it had a vision of a future need, but faced a market that was not yet ready. As the 90s progressed, telephone technology became more refined and democratized. 1995 brought GSM to the Spanish state on the one hand and, on the other, the liberalization of the telecommunications market, which inaugurated airtel. The operators began to directly control distribution and technical service with franchises and distributors, leaving little room for local independent companies. Scooters before the scooter craze. And if the service itself is surprising, so is the means of transportation: a scooter with a gasoline engine, more specifically the Sport model. of the Go-Ped brand, but quite similar in design and concept to the electric ones that swarm our streets today. His virtue was exactly the same: moving quickly and agilely through the density of Barcelona’s traffic to be able to get in front of the client. In Xataka | This glorious imaginary version of the Galaxy Fold from the 90s is one of those gems that can only be found on the internet In Xataka | A story of pioneers: they already flirted, argued and liked on the party lines of the 90s Cover | 3Cat via Marc Vidal edited with Gemini

What they are and how to use them to put order among the members of a group

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Let’s explain to you what it is and how to use it Member Tagsa new WhatsApp feature for groups that has been rolling out over the last month. It is something that can serve both as entertainment within a group of friends and for the organization of more serious groups. We are going to start the article by explaining what exactly this new function is, as well as its possibilities. And then we will guide you step by step how you can create yours in any of your groups. What are member tags Member tags is a feature for WhatsApp groups. With them, any of the members of a name can add a label or nickname, and What you type will appear under your name when you write in one of these groups. The label will be visible to all group members, and will appear every time you type. Just as the name you appear under will depend on how each person has added you to their contacts, The label you put will be the same for everyoneand all members of a group will see the same thing. This means that the labels can be used to give context of who is who in those groups where you do not have the members in their contacts. When you don’t have someone in contacts, within a group you will only see their number or a kind of nickname that the person has set up, and the label can serve to better identify who each person is. You can change your label whenever you want and as many times as you want. Therefore, if you are not satisfied or if you have gotten bored with one you have placed, you can change it as many times as you want. And finally, The label you put on yourself in a group is only for that group.and it will not be seen in others where you participate. In fact, you can give yourself a different label in each group you are in. What can you use these labels for? Labels can be used for different things depending on the context of each group. In groups that are more serious, these can serve to identify each person that is inside. For example, in a group of parents of students each person can say who they are the father or mother of. In a more professional setting, member tags can be used to clarify the roles of each of the members. Think that you are in a group related to your work, because with them the human resources person or the boss can identify themselves so that everyone recognizes them. And in groups of friends, labels can also serve as entertainmentso that each member can give themselves a nickname, something descriptive or simply an inside joke. How to set your label in a WhatsApp group To configure your personal tag in a group, the first thing is Click on the image or group name to enter your settings. The easiest thing is to click on the image, since it is easier to hit it with your finger. Once you are in the group settings, you have to go to the members list and click on your name. The list of members will appear almost at the bottom. In the list you will also see the tags of the other members so that you can identify them as well. If you have never configured your tag in a group, you will directly go to the screen where you can write the one you want to use. And if you already have a label, an intermediate screen will appear with your name, telephone number and label, and you will have to press where it says Edit member tag. When you enter the screen to add or edit your tag, a writing field will appear where you can put the word or phrase you want. Below you’ll see a preview that shows you how the label will appear in messages you write. And that’s it. From now on, when you write in a group, all members will be able to see your tag below your name or phone number. You can also always see other people’s tags every time they write something. In Xataka Basics | How to translate WhatsApp messages: converting them from any language to Spanish

An order from Beijing has just left it on the brink of the abyss

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A Chinese attack on Taiwan would be “a situation that threatens the survival” of Japan. Sanae Takaichi, Japanese Prime Minister, said it on November 9, and it was the trigger for a diplomatic outbreak between the two nations which to this day remains very tense. One of its victims has been tourism. what’s happening. Following Takaichi’s statements, the Chinese government advised its citizens to avoid traveling to Japan and it seems that they have listened to him. They count in Nikkei Asia that the entire ecosystem of businesses that made a living from Chinese tourism in Japan is suffering due to this dispute. Some owners of accommodations that had the full sign posted have found themselves with massive cancellations and the Chinese restaurants in the most touristy areas are practically empty. Why is it important. It is an example of how tensions between China and Japan quickly translate into very concrete economic impacts. Most of Japan’s tourism comes from China and has created an entire industry around it called “yitiao long”, which translates to “a dragon”. It is estimated that it moves around 54,000 million euros per year. the dragon. It is the name given to the tourism industry for Chinese citizens who visit Japan. They offer itineraries, restaurants, transportation, entertainment, accommodations and much more. The peculiarity is that the services are offered by Chinese-owned businesses, so everything is done in the same language and they even use Chinese payment systems to avoid having to change money. The fact that they are businesses so oriented towards Chinese clientele makes it difficult for them to pivot towards other nationalities. Tensions. China’s request not to travel to Japan has not been the only consequence after the prime minister’s statements. China has also pressed threatening aerial maneuvers and the decision of leave japanese zoos without pandasa measure that may seem trivial but has a great background. Goodbye to ambiguity. China’s response to the Japanese Prime Minister’s phrase may seem excessive, but Takaichi’s phrase implies several important details. The first thing is that it breaks with the tradition of previous leaders, whose position on Taiwan had always been ambiguous. On the other hand, the mention of the “survival-threatening situation” is not trivial. It refers to a legal figure that would allow Japan to use force in the event that China attacks Taiwan, even if it does not attack them directly. Image | Gije Cho, Pexels In Xataka | The United States may win the AI ​​race, but its problem is different: China is winning all the others

A new threat has arrived in the skies of Europe. They are not drones or fighters, and the order is to shoot before you ask

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For weeks now, the European sky has has converted in a silent front of hybrid war: brief incursions, weak signals, ambiguous trajectories and objects that, without carrying clear flags, force airport closures, diversions of trade routes and military responses that consume resources and erode civil normality. The pattern is repeated from the Baltics to Central Europe and seems designed to measure the NATO reflexes. Now something else has arrived, and it’s not drones or fighter jets. Balloon waves. Lithuania has announced that will bring down any balloon that crosses from Belarus after detecting in one go 66 night intrusions and chain closures of Vilnius airport. The government described the phenomenon as hybrid attack and activated the closure of the eastern border, initially temporary but set to become indefinite, with minimal exceptions for diplomats and EU citizens in transit. The decision marks a turning point on NATO’s eastern flank, where violations of airspace by drones, balloons and Russian aircraft are increasing. have become recurring in recent weeks, from Estonia and Poland to Denmark, Norway and Germany, fueling the impression of a sustained campaign of provocations calibrated to measure reflexes, saturate defenses and erode political tolerance at the cost of deterrence. Nature and sign. The balloons (some weighing more than 50 kilos, also used for tobacco smuggling) are interpreted not only as a criminal economy but also as a cheap instrument. psychological warfare and technical rehearsal: they stretch the “gray zone” five kilometers inward, force airport closures, degrade logistics, strain the civil and military decision chain and expose the friction of activating rules of engagement against targets no classic military sign. Lithuania will involve NASAMS, RBS-70, Avengers and MANPADS in neutralization, despite stocks depleted by transfers to Ukraine and the intrinsic difficulty of shooting down balloons with low radar signature and low kinetic energy. The political message is deliberate: any permeability (even if it seems marginal) will be treated as a strategic precedent. Escalation in NATO. We said it at the beginning, the episode arrives after penetrations of Su-30, Il-78 and MiG-31 in the Baltics, and after the recording of swarms of drones over Poland, Denmark, Munich or the Baltic, with more than 170 flights disrupted in one week in Vilnius and almost 14,000 passengers affected. Reiteration converts the episodic in pattern: state actors exploit loopholes in regulations (civil balloons, meteorological assumptions, smuggling) to degrade the continuity of European civil aviation and test the elasticity of ROE and allied cohesion without crossing explicit thresholds of article 5. Lithuania, in fact, studies consultations under article 4and has hinted that the closure could extend to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, raising the economic-logistical vector of the pulse. Hybrid war as a framework. Vilnius is clearand describes the phenomenon as a psychological operation aimed at disrupting daily life, testing NATO-EU synchrony and normalizing aggression (of low lethality, of course) as noise permanent. The background signal (at no point is Moscow explicitly named) fits into the repertoire hybrid warfare: discreet sabotage, information manipulation, low signal intrusion, erosion of trust and critical infrastructure, in conjunction with the war in Ukraine and under the plausible protection of Belarus. Plus: the closure of borders is accompanied by tougher criminal penalties against smuggling and coordination with Poland and Latvia to shield the eastern edge as a strategic unit, given the calculation that firmness, the earlier, will define how much the enemy will dare later. Image | LITHUANIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE In Xataka | Europe has decided to take action against Moscow’s hybrid war. So Germany has started hunting for Russian drones In Xataka | The Spanish invention that simplifies the hunt for Europe’s biggest threat: how to detect the arrival of drones in a matter of seconds

Russia’s order has triggered anxiety in Europe. Germany and France are already preparing for the worst: 1,000 injured per day

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To the incursions of Russia in the European airspace that took place last week In Poland, Romania and Estoniaanother in Denmark has joined with chaotic consequences for airlines. NATO has raised the voice while Moscow seems to test the allied cohesion in the Baltic. In the background: a series of movements that indicate two things: anxiety has shot in Europe, and some begin to prepare for a war scenario. Denmark does not give credit. Denmark has described As an “unprecedented attack” the incursions of drones that have forced to close the airports of Copenhagen and Oslo for hours, leaving tens of thousands of stranded passengers, in an episode that encompasses the wave of aerial rapes and drones attacks in past days To Poland, Romania and Estonia. The aircraft appeared from multiple directions, alternating lights and then disappearing, and the Danish authorities attribute them to “a capable operator”, while the Kremlin denies it. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen He talked about The “more serious” aggression against a critical infrastructure of Denmark and did not rule out any hypotheses, opinion supported by leaders such as Ukrainian President Zelenski and by EU spokesmen, who see a pattern of reckless actions by Russia. NATO celebrated meetings Under article 4condemned the violations and stressed that Rwill effort capabilities and deterrenceand some officials already contemplate the possibility of more forceful responses (even demolition) if these provocations are repeated. France and preparations. In France, the controversy has exploded after a Publication of Le Canard Enchaînéwhich revealed a letter sent in July by the Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin, in which she asked French health agencies to prepare for a possible “major commitment” In March 2026. The document urged hospitals to be ready to serve several thousand soldiers during periods that could extend 10 to 180 dayswhich included both French and foreign troops. The news, despite proceeding from a satirical environment, generated accusations that Emmanuel Macron would be secretly planning the country to the war against Russia. The extreme right, represented by the Eurodiputa Thierry Mariani, It went further suggesting that a conflict would allow to suspend the presidential elections of 2027. The official clarification. The Ministry of Health He did not deny authenticity of the letter, but he clarified his goal: it was a Preventive Planning Faced with possible risks and threats that could affect the hospital system, including the arrival of a large number of victims of an international conflict. The measure, according to the Ministerial Crisis Center, sought to guarantee the capacity of the civil health system to absorb a massive flow of military patients in case France, as a member of NATO and ally of Ukraine, was indirectly involved in a war set. It was not, therefore, a war plan per sebut an exercise in advance of contingencies. Germany and preparations. It happens that Germany It has begun To explicitly plan how to face an eventual large -scale conflict between NATO and Russia, the scene that many alliance analysts place Around 2029. Reuters explained That the calculation that marks this preparation is as sober as disturbing: up to 1,000 soldiers Germans wounded per day may require medical care in case of an open confrontation, a figure that the inspector general of Health, Ralf Hoffmann, qualifies as realistic based on the intensity of the fighting and the units involved. Ukraine lessons. The war in Ukraine has radically changed the nature of the injuries. If the bullet wounds predominated before, today the panorama is dominated by the devastating drones effectsMERODERE AND EXPLOSIVE MORMERS, which generate amputations, burns and multiple trauma. Hoffmann Underline That the “death corridor” of ten kilometers on each side of the Ukrainian front, plagued by hostile UAVs, shows how immediate medical evacuations have become almost impossible: injured should often be stabilized for hours under constant fire before being able to be transferred. How to evacuate. With this horizon, Berlin is studying Expand your abilities of flexible medical transport, inspired by the Ukrainian experience with hospital trains. It is considered to incorporate trains, buses and a greater number of sanitary aircraft, with the aim of guaranteeing staggered evacuations: initial attention in the front, intermediate stabilization and final transfer to hospitals within the German territory. This medical logistics chain demands a robust, decentralized and capable system under air and electronic threat. The plan contemplates that the injured receive definitive care especially in civil hospitals, with an estimated volume of 15,000 reserved beds within a national total capacity of 440,000. The coordination between the military medical service and the civil health system will be essential, and the medical body of the Armed Forces, currently 15,000 troops, must be extended significantly to face the magnitude of the challenge. The Kremlin and article 5. Explained the Financial Times That all this climate of extreme anxiety in Europe possibly responds to a Moscow tactic: to demonstrate that the NATO collective defense clause, Article 5it lacks real value. A hesitant response to a provocation could open the door to Russia trying to “break down” small European states without facing the block as a whole. Scenarios such as a land incursion under the pretext of protecting Russian minorities in Baltic countries are part of the recurring fears of military planners. To do this, Moscow has uncertainty that surrounds Washingtonwhose contribution represents about 40 % of the military capacities of the Alliance in Europe. The unknowns Trump. The American factor is decisive. With units of Himars Artillery And tanks already deployed in the Baltic, the military presence is significant, but the key question is what Donald Trump would do in case of open aggression. Distrust is mutual: in Washington some see the Baltic as excessively ideological and aggressive against Moscow, while in Tallin the vote of the United States is remembered with Russia in the UN as An alert signal. The president’s volatility adds an unpredictable element: as well as surprising authorizing Attacks to IranI could react unexpectedly in a crisis in Eastern Europe. Between fear and dependence. The great European powers … Read more

Russia has just launched the greatest order to Europe since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. And Europe has responded with fire

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In recent weeks the war in Ukraine had taken a more worrying channel with a made unprecedented From the Russian invasion in 2022. Lost combat drones were arriving To countries outside the conflicteven impacting the land. However, what happened few hours ago is completely different. Poland (and NATO) have just enter In the contest. Polish interception. Yes, Poland It has knocked down For the first time Russian drones that penetrated their airspace during a massive attack against Ukraine, in what Warsaw He described how an “unprecedented violation.” The operation, carried out in the early morning with fighters and Polish anti -aircraft defense systems and other NATO allies (including F-35 Dutch), supposes the most serious clash between Moscow and the Atlantic Alliance since the beginning of the Russian Invasion on a large scale in February 2022. Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed That armament was used against intruder objects, convened an emergency meeting and claimed to maintain constant contact with NATO general, Mark Rutte. For its part. The president of France Macron has described Incursion as “simply unacceptable.” Critical climbing. The incident occurs in a context of great tension, with Russian military exercises Zapad About to start with Belarus and Washington pressed by European capitals to adopt a firmer position against Moscow. Said war games, five days, They imply to the armed forces of Russia and Belarus and develop very close to the Polish border, which increases the risk of incidents. The military dimension. The Polish Armed Forces confirmed that several military aircraft participated in the operation, with radar systems and air defense activated to the highest level of alert. HE They identified and demolished Some of the intruder drones in regions such as Podlaskie, Mazowieckie and Lublin, where there were even traces of devices, as in the town of Czosnówka. I also knowThey used flights In the Chopin airport in Warsovia and in three other aerodromes, including Rzesów-Jjaka, key for its proximity to Ukraine. The change in Russian strategy. Russia has intensified since summer the use of drones and missiles to saturate Ukrainian defense and exhaust its interceptors. Only last weekend launched more than 800 drones and a dozen missiles in the largest air attack since 2022. This tactic too Multiply the risks For neighboring countries of Ukraine, such as Poland, which until now had suffered the fall of lost projectiles (such as the one that killed two farmers in 2022), but had never directly intercepted Russian devices in flight. Implications The Polish response occurs at a time of political uncertainty In Washington, with President Donald Trump trying to force peace negotiations between kyiv and Moscow, but without success. The lack of immediate reactions of the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department highlights the US caution before an action that can mark a before and after in the involvement of NATO. Plus: Warsaw decided Close completely Its border with Belarus, even more hardening the posture against its eastern neighbors. What changes now. The fact that Poland has used kinetic means to reduce Russian drones inside its airs Exercise active defense. If you want, this redefines your response threshold: from this moment, any unidentified and hostile profile can be treated As immediate threat. In terms of deterrence, the message is sent to Moscow that the “navigation errors”, collateral probes or saturations will no longer have zero cost. In terms aliancistasTest in real conditions the integrated air defense architecture NATO on the eastern flank. Risk and management. The use of Polish fire against Russian objects raises the potential of Friction on three levels: Tactical (more interceptions and greater probability of fragmentation on populated areas), operational (expansion of confrontation rules and greater density of aerial patrols) and strategic (Russian diplomatic or military response, including propaganda and mirror measures in Kalinningrad and Beelorusia). In addition, the coincidence with Zapad exercises increases the danger of Malinterpretation: Training flights, air targets or lures can be confused with real threats. Mitigation requires positive identification protocols, clear red lines and active distrust channels, ideally backed by shared early alerts and previous notifications of exercises. Article 5 and a theory. Although an isolated demolition of drones does not active per se Article 5, does press the debate on the “threshold” of armed aggression. Poland can argue legitimate defense (Art. 51 of the UN Letter) Before repeated incursions that put infrastructure or population at risk. If it was demonstrated that Russian platforms were deliberately directed to transit or attack in NATO territory, the case for consultations of article 4 (and, in significant damage scenarios or victims, for 5) it is reinforced. Moscow, aware of this, can intensify ambiguity: drones with erratic flight plan, lures or minimal loads to maintain that kind of “gray zone”. The allied response, therefore, must be graduated, documented and legally solid. Image | Nato North Atlantic, 7th Army Training Command, In Xataka | The Ukrainian army that is not afraid of Russia. They arrive as outdated machines and become robots for war In Xataka | Something unprecedented in Ukraine is happening: combat drones do not need humans to coordinate and attack

What is this gesture for and how to use it to better order your chats

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WhatsApp is an application full of small tricks and gestures that can make your life a little easier. And although some have been unnoticed by some time. That happens with The gesture of sliding down The main screen, a function that has been since last year. This is a gesture that allows you Filter the chats to have them more organizedso it will be very useful. We will explain the functioning of these filters and how you can adapt them. Slide down to see chat filters To show the chat filters in WhatsApp, what you have to do is go to the main screen and Slide the screen down. It is as if you will press the screen and move your finger to show what is hidden above. This gesture “will pull the blanket” and show the filter menu. When the filters will be shown down. By default there are some created, which are to see all the chats, the unresses and the groups. You also have A button to create your custom filters. The operation of these filters is simple. Simply, when you choose one, you will only see the messages of the contacts included in them. In the case of Not read They will not be concrete contacts, but all the chats will simply be displayed where you have without reading messages. When you click on the creation buttonyou can put a new name and add the contacts or groups you want. Thus, you can have the chats in a single pulsation with your friends, with the classmates, or make a different group with the criteria you want. In Xataka Basics | Activate ‘improved privacy’ in WhatsApp so that the AI does not fuite: what really has the viral notice and what does this function really do

Airbus is about to close a new massive order in China, according to SCMP. The moment cannot be worse for Boeing

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Airbus prepares to reinforce its presence in one of the most strategic markets on the planet: China. South China Morning Post says that the European manufacturer is at the gates of signing a new agreement with the Chinese authorities that would include Between 100 and 200 new airplanes. The firm could arrive this month, but what really attracts attention is not the magnitude of the order, but the moment in which it occurs. The operation would coincide with the summit between the European and China Union on July 24 and 25, As Politico has advanced. A high -level diplomatic encounter that seeks to reduce commercial tensions, redefine relationships between Brussels and Beijing, and manage an increasingly tense climate in their links with Washington. That Airbus manages to close a contract of this size just in that context is something that does not go unnoticed. A new order in Chinese heavens? China has not closed great agreements with Boeing for years. The last relevant request dates back to 2017and since then the American manufacturer has been losing ground in one of the most dynamic markets in commercial aviation. The reason is not only commercial: the cooling of relations between Washington and Beijing, The tariff war And regulatory doubts seem to be tilting the balance to the European side. As the Hongkonese medium points out, Airbus has gained weight as the main supplier. Time also plays in favor of Airbus. Many Chinese airlines are dealing with aged fleets, mostly composed of Boeing aircraft acquired more than a decade ago. In cases such as Shandong Airlines or China United Airlines, the bulk of the devices exceeds ten years of service. As the airplanes accumulate flight hours, in general, their maintenance becomes more expensive, their operational efficiency decreases and increases inactivity periods. At first glance, it may seem that an airline can compensate for the situation by combining manufacturers. However, operate A mixed fleet It implies logistics complexity and high costs. An Airinsight analysis concluded that the expenses derived from managing two types of fleet – parties, training, documentation, crew ratio – are amortized in just 12–15 months and then favor significant savings in the useful life of the fleet. Operating a mixed fleet implies logistics complexity and high costs The standardization – arrest by a single supplier such as Airbus or Boeing – reduces operational costs, simplifies the training of personnel and speeds up the management of spare parts. In contrast, changing manufacturer forces to reorganize supply chains, train pilots and technicians in new models and adapt maintenance infrastructure. The latter implies from updating the hangars and workshops to the physical requirements of the new plane, to acquire specific tools. For many airlines, that entrance barrier seems to explain why they continue to depend on boeing fleets even when Airbus gains ground. China is also betting on developing its own alternative. The three large state airlines – Air China, China Eastern and China Southern – have already committed the purchase of more than 100 units of the Comac C919the passenger plane developed by the Chinese aeronautical industry. Political support is evident, but so are its limits: Production is still reducedinternational certifications are in the initial phase and the technical support network does not have maturity or the Airbus or Boeing scale. For now, C919 is a medium -term promise, but not an immediate solution to meet the enormous demand of the domestic market. Nevertheless, Boeing is not totally out of the game. In April 2025, several 737 Max prepared for Chinese airlines They returned to the United States After Beijing ordered to suspend deliveries, as part of their response to new tariffs against US products. Although this measure points to a protective impulse of the national industry and the geopolitical strategy, Boeing could still regain land if commercial tension is reduced and access to the Chinese market is resumed. But, for now, Airbus is emerging as a favorite. Airbus knows well the potential of the Chinese market. According to their own forecaststhe country will need more than 9,500 new commercial airplanes in the next 20 years. Boeing handles a similar figure: Around 8,830 to 9,740 units, depending on the economic and regulatory scenario. In any case, we are talking about a gigantic demand. And at this time, with the orders to Boeing frozen and Comac still consolidating, Airbus has a clear advantage. If the new contract is confirmed, it will not be an isolated case: it will be the reflection of a trend that can mark the distribution of power in commercial aviation during the next decades. Images | FASYAH HALIM | Takashi Miyazaki In Xataka | The C919 Comac In Xataka | The United Kingdom was waiting for an invincible hunt. Today, the F-35 flies little and cannot shoot its own weapons

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