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Taiwan Test: British Fail
A dilemma has been burning a hole in British officials’ desks. In fact, two holes. One case concerns the singer Taylor Swift. Would she be whisked through the streets of London with a VIP police...
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China Threatens Europe’s Windmills
The world’s largest wind turbines rise off the shore of China’s Fujian Province in the Taiwan Strait. Designed to withstand tropical storms, a giant Chinese-made turbine — with a rotor diameter of 252...
View ArticleShameless — North Korean Troops Join Putin’s War on Ukraine
We should probably have known. When Putin submitted a bill on ratification of a comprehensive partnership agreement with North Korea to the Duma on October 14, he knew what would come next even if...
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Curbing Code? US Mulls New AI Export Controls
The Biden administration has imposed tough export controls to restrict China’s access to the semiconductors and hardware needed to train powerful AI systems. US officials now are preparing a similar...
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Totalitarians Choke Growth as Well as Freedom, Nobel Winners Warn
The many books and articles by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (both of MIT), and James Robinson (University of Chicago), this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics, demonstrate the...
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Orbán Goes All-In for Trump (and Xi)
“That is our only option, we have nothing to lose,” the Hungarian ambassador to the US said when asked why he so openly supports Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Szabolcs Takács’s comment is not...
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Europe 2029: Eight Policy Priorities for the New European Commission
Executive Summary Task One for the new European Commission must be winning the fiscal war with Russia by overcoming political barriers to consistent financial aid to Ukraine and tightening the screws...
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UN Avoids Surrendering the Internet to Russia and China — For Now
Russia and China sought to promote the concept of “Internet sovereignty”—the notion that states should exercise complete control over their digital ecosystems. Western countries, including the United...
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Trump or Harris: Either Way Expect a Transatlantic Trade Tussle
Transatlantic trade accounts for one-third of global trade in goods and services and nearly one-third of global GDP in purchasing power, more than a trillion dollars of exchange annually. Yet it is in...
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Security is No Longer a Dirty Word in Brussels
Visitors to Brussels might be surprised at the change in tone from Eurocrats. Mario Draghi’s report on competitiveness is required reading. “Green transition” is out, and “security” is in. Three...
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