On a recent summer day, Austin Knudsen, Montana’s attorney general, drove his red Buick from Helena, the state’s capital, to Boulder, a tiny town about a half-hour away whose main […]
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Back to news homeTech Chiefs to Gather in Washington Next Month on A.I. Regulations
The NewsSenator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, plans to kick off a series of listening sessions next month on the regulation of artificial intelligence with Elon Musk of Tesla, […]
A Crisis of Confidence Is Gripping China’s Economy
Earlier this year, David Yang was brimming with confidence about the prospects for his perfume factory in eastern China.After nearly three years of paralyzing Covid lockdowns, China had lifted its […]
How China Made Its Housing Crisis Worse
In China the pension akin to Social Security in the United States pays about $410 a month to seniors who live in cities, and only $25 a month in the […]
Can Shrinking Be Good for Japan? A Marxist Best Seller Makes the Case.
When Kohei Saito decided to write about “degrowth communism,” his editor was understandably skeptical. Communism is unpopular in Japan. Economic growth is gospel.So a book arguing that Japan should view […]
China’s Property Crisis: Why It’s So Hard for Beijing to Fix
China’s stock market was plunging and its currency was teetering. The head of the central bank, fielding questions at a rare news conference, said that China would make it easier […]
When Tragedy Strikes in China, the Government Cracks Down on Grief
Many innocent lives were lost to tragic events in China in the past month. So far we haven’t learned a single name of any of them from China’s government or […]
China’s Economy Battles Debt, Slowing Trade and Specter of Deflation
For more than a quarter-century, China has been synonymous with relentless development and upward mobility. As its 1.4 billion people gained an appetite for the wares of the world — […]
Sweden Is Not Staying Neutral in Russia’s Information War
Facing a tsunami of disinformation about the treatment of Muslims that has in recent months fueled protests from Stockholm to Baghdad, Sweden decided it needed to fight back.It turned to […]
Taiwan Cuisine and What it Says About Taiwanese Identity
Taiwan is a self-ruling island of 24 million people that is officially known as the Republic of China. Only about a dozen countries recognize it as a nation because China […]