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[Kevin Rudd] The coronavirus and Xi Jinping’s worldview

Feb 10, 2020

The coronavirus crisis represents the single biggest challenge for Xi Jinping since he became general secretary of the Communist Party of China in 2012. Individuals and families across China are livi...
[Trudy Rubin] Coronavirus death of Chinese whistleblower doctor should sober Beijing -- and us

Feb 9, 2020

The death of a young Chinese doctor who was silenced by authorities when he tried to warn about the outbreak of the coronavirus has lit up the country’s social media with outrage. By Friday, referen...
[Digital Simplicity] Surging appetite for analog experience on digital devices

Feb 7, 2020

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously said at the iPhone launch event in 2007, “Who wants a stylus?” As of February, most iPads come with a stylus called the Apple Pencil. So, my quick answer to Jobs...
[Katherine A. Mason] International overreaction to the coronavirus is more dangerous than the virus itself

Feb 6, 2020

In April 2003, I was evacuated from my post teaching English in Guangzhou, China, at the height of the SARS epidemic. I was 23. While transiting in Chicago on my way home to Philadelphia, I called my...
[Anjani Trivedi] Virus forces the China car shutdown Beijing couldn’t

Feb 5, 2020

Fears that the coronavirus will ravage global supply chains rooted in China are spreading fast. For automakers, a hiatus from production in the world’s largest car market may force them to take some ...
[Lionel Laurent] The more Macron accomplishes, the more unpopular he becomes

Feb 5, 2020

“Remember when we all believed in Emmanuel Macron?” The question comes not from an angry trade unionist but a stand-up comedian in central Paris, facing a crowd of 30-something urbanites cut from the...
[Kim Seong-kon] “Star Wars”: In the name of peace and justice

Feb 4, 2020

When I saw “Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope,” the first of its series, in 1977, I was mesmerized. The fabulous galactic imagination of George Lucas led me on a true adventure through a vast, unknow...
[Andrew Gilmour] Preventing climate change is a human rights issue

Feb 4, 2020

Every society in the world is going to pay a price for global warming. But it’s the poorest countries and communities who will suffer the most from rising seas and burning lands -- and likely also fr...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Thailand’s economy was already sickening

Feb 3, 2020

Outside China, Thailand has the largest number of patients infected by the novel coronavirus. Unfortunately, the export-reliant $500 billion economy, Southeast Asia’s second-largest, was sickly even ...
[David Fickling] Airlines aren’t about to succumb to coronavirus

Feb 3, 2020

Airlines are perpetually on the alert against crashes. That doesn’t mean the coronavirus epidemic will lead to any corporate disasters. The outbreak that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan coul...
Present and future of Korea's medical AI

Feb 3, 2020

In March 2016, Koreans were stunned by the match between Alpha Go, an artificial intelligence program, and Lee Se-dol, a world-renowned Go champion. In many ways, the match marked a turning point in ...
[Jan-Werner Mueller] Christian democracy or illiberal democracy?

Feb 2, 2020

For years, a conflict has been brewing between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the European People’s Party, the supranational organization of Christian Democratic and center-right parties i...
[Joseph E. Stiglitz] Has Davos man changed?

Feb 2, 2020

This year marked the 50th anniversary of the World Economic Forum’s flagship meeting of the world’s business and political elites in Davos, Switzerland. Much has changed since my first Davos in 1995....
[David Fickling] Small weapons are the most potent in virus fight

Jan 30, 2020

How do you turn a disease outbreak into an epidemic? The best way might be to mix infected people with the healthy for long periods in crowded conditions, and then move them around to new locations. ...
[Jean Pisani-Ferry] Explaining triumph of Trump’s economic recklessness

Jan 30, 2020

Since he was elected US president, Donald Trump has done almost everything standard economic wisdom regards as heresy. He has erected trade barriers and stoked uncertainty with threats of further tar...