First Evergrande, and now Country Garden: Massive Chinese developers are beginning to buckle under the pressure of 7 billion square feet of unsold homes. In the last 40 years, the country’s robust real estate market has been lauded for propelling C...
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First Evergrande, and now Country Garden: Massive Chinese developers are beginning to buckle under the pressure of 7 billion square feet of unsold homes. In the last 40 years, the country’s robust real estate market has been lauded for propelling C...
The world no longer runs on just oil but on semiconductors. These miniscule chips play a role in most modern inventions––facilitating the use of the internet, flying drones, and most notably, powering the next generation of AI models. Cutting-edg...
The world no longer runs on just oil but on semiconductors. These miniscule chips play a role in most modern inventions––facilitating the use of the internet, flying drones, and most notably, powering the next generation of AI models. Cutting-edg...
In 2001, the United States ushered China into the World Trade Organization, hoping to inspire the communist state to join the liberal economic order. In the decades since, China’s economy has experienced astonishing growth. In 2023, the state boast...
In 2001, the United States ushered China into the World Trade Organization, hoping to inspire the communist state to join the liberal economic order. In the decades since, China’s economy has experienced astonishing growth. In 2023, the state boast...
The world’s second largest economy is in deep trouble. In China, where economic growth has exceeded the expectations of Western economists for decades, financial indicators are now showing signs of a serious slowdown. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index,...
The world’s second largest economy is in deep trouble. In China, where economic growth has exceeded the expectations of Western economists for decades, financial indicators are now showing signs of a serious slowdown. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index,...
Even strength must bow to wisdom. There is a mist of wisdom in the foreign affairs of the People’s Republic of China. Instead of hasty military interventions, the nation plays the long game to bolster its hegemonic status. That is evident in the Gu...
Even strength must bow to wisdom. There is a mist of wisdom in the foreign affairs of the People’s Republic of China. Instead of hasty military interventions, the nation plays the long game to bolster its hegemonic status. That is evident in the Gu...
On July 15, 2022, Air Force One landed on the baking tarmac in Jeddah. Despite campaign promises to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” President Biden, spurred by high oil prices, came to the Kingdom on bended knee to plead for a production hike. ...
On July 15, 2022, Air Force One landed on the baking tarmac in Jeddah. Despite campaign promises to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” President Biden, spurred by high oil prices, came to the Kingdom on bended knee to plead for a production hike. ...
Ask any government statistician: The B-1 Bomber won us the Cold War. Not in the way you might think. No bomber ever dropped payloads over Russia, and the victory wasn’t overnight. But by its specific characteristics—anti-radar stealth, low-altitu...
Ask any government statistician: The B-1 Bomber won us the Cold War. Not in the way you might think. No bomber ever dropped payloads over Russia, and the victory wasn’t overnight. But by its specific characteristics—anti-radar stealth, low-altitu...
On March 9, 2023, the Biden administration announced that it would request $842 billion for the 2024 Pentagon budget. If passed, this would be the largest defense budget in history. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appeared before the House Appropri...
On March 9, 2023, the Biden administration announced that it would request $842 billion for the 2024 Pentagon budget. If passed, this would be the largest defense budget in history. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appeared before the House Appropri...
Today’s energy crisis harkens back to the 1973 oil shock, during which Arab petrostates instituted an oil embargo against Western countries that led to skyrocketing prices and astonishingly long lines at the gas pump. Since then, oil importers have...
Today’s energy crisis harkens back to the 1973 oil shock, during which Arab petrostates instituted an oil embargo against Western countries that led to skyrocketing prices and astonishingly long lines at the gas pump. Since then, oil importers have...
In 1995, Bai Junfeng tortured and then forcibly penetrated his wife Yao, leading her into a coma that nearly took her life. Yet the Yixian People’s Court ruled that Bai was innocent of rape on the grounds that violently forcing one’s wife to have...
In 1995, Bai Junfeng tortured and then forcibly penetrated his wife Yao, leading her into a coma that nearly took her life. Yet the Yixian People’s Court ruled that Bai was innocent of rape on the grounds that violently forcing one’s wife to have...
You’re wearing your pajamas and fuzzy slippers while sitting in your bedroom. You’re also on an important Zoom call and it’s 2 pm in the afternoon. While this scenario seems perfectly normal now, before the pandemic it would have felt biz...
You’re wearing your pajamas and fuzzy slippers while sitting in your bedroom. You’re also on an important Zoom call and it’s 2 pm in the afternoon. While this scenario seems perfectly normal now, before the pandemic it would have felt biz...
Until very recently, China was the only country in the world still holding fast to a zero-Covid strategy, an approach that focuses on clearing local Covid-19 transmissions with all available political tools. Whenever a city experienced a spike in cas...
Until very recently, China was the only country in the world still holding fast to a zero-Covid strategy, an approach that focuses on clearing local Covid-19 transmissions with all available political tools. Whenever a city experienced a spike in cas...