Epstein and China
Jeffrey Epstein aspired to do deals in China, corresponding with Peter Mandelson and David Stern, a German associate who was close to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The...
The Moonlighter
A former Google software engineer has been convicted of trade secrets theft and economic espionage in connection with his efforts to launch a start-up in...
A Slow but Steady Acceleration
After years of planning and investment, robotaxis are finally hitting the road in China. Accidents and the impact of self-driving vehicles on employment remain concerns,...
The Critical Raw Materials Gap
European democracies, threatened by Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine and Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland, are embarking on historic changes in their defense posture. But...
Digging into Congo
In an excerpt from his new book, Nicolas Niarchos examines how China and the Democratic Republic of Congo negotiated an infrastructure-for-commodities agreement involving two large...
Get Jimmy
The recent conviction of Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong’s most famous dissident, on alleged national security offenses was the end of a process set in motion...
Japan Inc’s China Angst
Japanese automakers’ long-dominant position in Southeast Asia is under threat from a new generation of Chinese rivals who made a bolder technology bet. Can they...
China’s Other Olympics
At the Olympics of synthetic biology, 50 percent of the teams are Chinese — and counting. What does that mean for the future of the...
China’s Search for an AI Magic Cure
Can artificial intelligence fix China’s fragmented public healthcare system?
“The Reinstitution of Fear”
In an extract from his new book, The Broken China Dream, Minxin Pei looks at how Xi Jinping seized unassailable political power and forced China...
Hard Lessons in Hypersonics
In January, the arrest of a Chinese national in the Philippines led to the unravelling of an alleged espionage operation coordinated from Beijing. In an...
Fight of the Century
If Xi Jinping orders the People’s Liberation Army to take Taiwan by force, can the island turn itself into a porcupine and muster wholesale “societal...