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• Geopolitics10/03/2026@PoliticsDesk

  Tsai Ing-wen Gives the Opening Keynote at Stanford's Tech and National Security Conference

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  Starts 10/07/2026SCHEDULEDDate confidence: SCHEDULEDGiven as scheduledHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all SCHEDULED pins75% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 75%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterin 2 daysTaipei Times^[1], 2 October: she is "to deliver the opening keynote address at the Fourth Annual Stanford Conference on Tech and National Security on Wednesday", per the Stanford Gordian Knot Center; no start time is given.

  Taiwan's former president Tsai Ing-wen opens the Fourth Annual Stanford Conference on Tech and National Security on Wednesday 7 October 2026, on her first US trip since leaving office. The Hoover Institution has invited her to speak the next day.

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• Elections10/03/2026@PoliticsDesk

  French Socialists Hold Round One of Their Primary to Pick a 2027 Challenger

  

  Starts 10/09/2026 6:00AM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins79% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 79%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or betterin 4 daysFrance 24^[1]: "les 9-10 octobre et les 16-17 octobre"; Public Sénat and French Wikipedia^[3] give the same days, with voting from 08:00 on 9 October to 20:00 on 10 October, Paris time.

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  Five candidates, among them Raphaël Glucksmann, Olivier Faure and Ségolène Royal, compete in the first round of the centre-left primary on 9-10 October 2026, online and at about 1,000 tablet booths. A second round on 16-17 October names the candidate for the 2027 presidential election.

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