HD Hyundai expands shipbuilding cooperation with Philippines and South Korea cites shipbuilding as US hegemony declines while drought in Puerto Rico hampers aid distribution.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-09 00:34Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A dry riverbed in Puerto Rico stretches across the frame, with a few boats stuck in the mud, as people in the background try to transport aid on foot, under a harsh sun, with a massive cargo ship in the distant horizon, its cargo cranes idle.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A dry riverbed in Puerto Rico stretches across the frame, with a few boats stuck in the mud, as people in the background try to transport aid on foot, under a harsh sun, with a massive cargo ship in the distant horizon, its cargo cranes idle. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
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South Korea plans $350B US investment including $150B for shipbuilding
The package, reported by Yonhap on September 8, includes $200 billion for strategic industries and $150 billion for U.S. shipbuilding.
By Ingrid Sorensen · 4wSouth Korea announced a US$350 billion investment package that includes US$150 billion for the U.S. shipbuilding industry, according to Yonhap News Agency's reporting on September 8.
The package consists of US$200 billion for strategic industries and US$150 billion for shipbuilding. The Encinal project is being considered as the first investment under the US$200 billion Korea-U.S. strategic investment fund, which was established to implement a November 2025 agreement under which Korea committed to invest in U.S. advanced industries and shipbuilding, Pulse reported on September 8.
The Jones Act has failed in its broader mission to protect the nation's shipbuilding industry, according to the Alaska Policy Forum. A 2025 U.S. Trade Representative report states the U.S. ranks nineteenth in commercial shipbuilding and builds fewer than five ships per year, while China builds more than 1,700. A 2019 OECD projection stated that abolishing the Jones Act would result in net economic gains for the U.S., including for the shipbuilding industry.
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