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A shift in perspective is taking place among biologists and ecologists — a change in how we view the world that has significant implications for...
A new explanation for the global ruckus in sovereign bonds is becoming popular: Maybe markets and economies are simply returning to normal. After all,...
GENEVA – When Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump meet in Washington this month, AI will be near the top of the agenda. If...
We picked a helluva time to go RVing in Canada. My wife and I crossed the border in Maine as recent trade talks in Washington were collapsing, and we...
Japan is competing in the wrong artificial intelligence race. Rather than chasing ever-larger data centers and ever-more-powerful chips, it should put...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called on Japan to hike interest rates by invoking director Spike Lee’s most famous movie and saying that...
MEXICO CITY – The wars in Iran and Ukraine have put the spotlight back on guerrilla warfare. Conflicts in which smaller groups, forces or countries...
Mere hours after the Trump administration’s latest tariff scheme launched on July 24, the government was sued again by the same small businesses...
“Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years,” said President Harry S. Truman in 1948....
Japan is betting heavily on dual-use technology, but finding promising technologies is the easy part. The harder challenge is turning them into...
America remains the best country in the world to get rich. Some see this as cause for celebration, while others view it as evidence of a broken...
“Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years,” said President Harry S. Truman in 1948....
OXFORD, England – In late April, a Chinese court ruled that an AI firm could not legally dismiss an employee simply because his role had been...
Roughly a decade behind the U.S. and U.K., Japan is adopting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. But it is doing so without confronting the...
Ultracheap Chinese artificial intelligence is proving to be a major threat to the shaky economics of Silicon Valley. But the same price war is...
SAN DIEGO – As the U.S.-Iran war threatens to ignite a worldwide energy crisis, another hotspot may come to a boil: Taiwan. During a recent visit to...
Gianni Infantino’s recent capitulation looks like a textbook case of overreach by a leader unaccustomed to restraints on their power. The FIFA...
I used to hate Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, with a white-hot intensity. (I doubt he lost any sleep over it.) My beef was the virtual monopoly...
Fifty years ago this weekend, on Sept. 6, 1976, Lt. Viktor Belenko of the Soviet Air Defense Forces climbed into a MiG-25 “Foxbat” near...
The transition to adulthood has never been easy. My own early twenties, about a decade ago, were a time of high anxiety, low self-esteem and steep...
Seattle – When I joined Facebook in 2009, I believed in the mission that founder Mark Zuckerberg espoused: to connect and empower people around the...
The international community often finds itself perplexed by the diplomatic style of U.S. President Donald Trump. One day he denounces an ally in the...
The Trump administration’s recent imposition of economic sanctions against Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), marks...
Since the COVID-19 border closures sealed North Korea off from the world, and as the China-Russia-North Korea axis has deepened, the North Korean...
India intends to build one of the world’s largest nuclear fleets, a market worth tens of billions of dollars. Yet for 15 years, a single provision...
Japan’s greatest strategic vulnerability may not be missiles or warships. It may be who builds Asia’s power plants. As China expands its military...
In the weeks after Graham Platner was forced to halt his Senate campaign in Maine, his career in tatters after a rape allegation, the Democratic Party...
After seeing a video of Mark Zuckerberg sparring with a UFC champion on a barge in the middle of Lake Tahoe, you might be inclined to dismiss his...
Somewhere in Japan this spring, a child who could easily read the blackboard in first grade began squinting at it by third grade. In just two years,...
Chow Hang-tung first went to jail for lighting a candle. One of Hong Kong’s most prominent political prisoners, she’s already been behind bars for...
Math can mean different things to different people. It’s simple sums for children or sophisticated models for hedge fund managers. For...
In response to the Trump administration’s Aug. 18 announcement that it would impose sanctions on International Criminal Court President Tomoko...
China’s new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress has been in effect for more than one month. Beijing claims the law will foster cohesion and...
The Trump administration’s latest assertions about executive privilege — that it protects the confidentiality of a president’s communication...
BOSTON – Almost every major global health emergency has exposed the same flaw in the international financial system. When disaster strikes, the...
Early Wednesday morning, a catastrophic flash flood surged into the Bhote Koshi River near the China-Nepal border, tearing through the settlements of...
While Moonshot’s Kimi K3 was blowing up online, at China’s recent and biggest artificial intelligence summit in Shanghai, hundreds of humanoid...
I first sensed a disturbance in the force in the early days of the first Trump administration. It wasn’t the president’s antics that got my Spidey...
Food inflation is still hitting Americans hard. The latest consumer price index report showed supermarket inflation running well above the old...
PHILADELPHIA – At Vanguard, we anticipate 3% U.S. gross domestic product growth in 2027, an estimate that is noticeably higher than other...
The age when governments could pretend that trade was about commerce and geopolitics was about power is ending. Tariffs, export controls, sanctions,...
In an era when authoritarian states pour vast resources into global media empires to shape perceptions, Taiwan’s sole international English-language...
Japan is one of the most seismically active countries in the world. Last month’s earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, which killed 38 people, and the...
A few years ago, one of my university students moved to Tokyo for the first time. Several months later, she told me something that surprised her....
Brunswick and Echelon Insights asked registered voters in late June what they would tell America’s chief executive officers if they had the chance....
Every U.S. president in recent generations has promised some version of a pivot to Asia. In Donald Trump’s second term, however, East Asia has...
From Europe to Southeast Asia, Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is on a roll. But its toughest challenge is much closer to home: cracking Japan, the...
The U.K.’s center of gravity is shifting. It’s hard to say yet whether this is a permanent recalibration or even a substantial one, but the...
Only days after the Feb. 28 surprise attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran, insurance premiums for commercial tankers transiting the Strait...
In mid-July, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched a sweeping campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court. Unprecedented in scope...
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