German Chancellor Olaf Scholz outlined bold, long-term goals: Strengthen the country’s depleted military with extraordinary investments and adopt assertive foreign policy defending global norms.
A gap has opened up between inflation in the US compared to other regions like Europe and China.
Emergency and security personnel inspect the rubble at the site of an Israeli strike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1.
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From an economic development perspective, the highly skewed nature of AI activity in the US is likely to create large pools of high-skilled workers in some regions while leaving other regions behind.
Washington and Beijing have flashpoints to negotiate, but appear to be choosing to do this through diplomacy, for now.
Chinese universities are prodigious producers of scientific papers, which will help garner them more prestige.
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Science rankings rely on papers in academic journals. Broadening the view to include many more open-access journals will upend the usual order – thanks to China’s vast number of publications.
U.S.-China antagonism is particularly acute in the realm of hacking and cybersecurity.
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Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Chinese state-sponsored hackers are targeting critical infrastructure. Here’s what they’re doing, how the US government is responding and how you can help.
Maxim Samson speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the hidden lines that explain variations in everything from access to education to animal species
British elections are pencil and papers affairs, which makes them difficult to hack. But the breach of millions of people’s details is still a deeply serious matter.
Chinese actress and singer Zhao Wei in the middle of her Chateau Monlot vines in 2018.
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Kim Beazley, a former Labor leader and Australia's ambassador in Washington joins us to talk about Donald Trump's denigrating comments about Kevin Rudd, AUKUS and the Australia-Chinese relationship.
Pangolins are the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal.
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In the space of two decades, Hong Kong’s liberal constitutional order has been transformed into a security regime that grants citizens few civil liberties
Presidents Xi and Biden sit down for dinner at a meeting in November 2023. China was hoping to carve out some trade concessions.
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