Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
School officials are becoming increasingly wary of TikTok amid concerns that the app poses a risk to student safety and privacy and makes the nation vulnerable to spies.
China have been overestimated or deaths have been underestimated. Whatever the case, China’s massive COVID surge and expected Lunar New Year travel could raise risks for other countries.
Welcoming the Year of the Rabbit in Taiwan in 2011.
Jimmy Yao/flickr
Successive Japanese administrations have tried – and largely failed – to reduce urban overcrowding for 70 years.
Cathay Pacific crew members who worked on a flight from Hong Kong arrive at Vancouver International Airport. Canada now requires air travellers from China, Hong Kong and Macau to have a recent negative COVID-19 test result.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
In 2014, Chinese researchers published more papers than any other country for the first time. In 2019, China overtook the U.S. as the No. 1 publisher of the most influential papers.
Women working in rural China close to the Tibetan border.
Yuan Chen
China pursued COVID zero for too long and is now paying the price. But the rest of the world doesn’t have too much to worry about.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Defence Minister Anita Anand join U.S. officials in a NORAD briefing at the North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., in June 2022.
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