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On Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump finally released the Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. While the plan’s various components should each be
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In an air raid shelter in Taipei, civilians crouched in place, their hands over their heads and their mouths open in case of a pressure wave from a
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Apple has stumbled in its rollout of Apple Intelligence and is now in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic about powering Siri with either ChatGPT or
Why Is the U.K. Going Soft on China?
The U.K.’s foreign influence registration scheme was activated at the beginning of July, and China was not placed in the top tier threat category.
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Kenya was the first African country in which Huawei invested in 1998. Since then, the Chinese tech giant’s footprint in the country has continued to
Hong Kong Democracy Activism Adjusts Course
Read parts one and two. Ted Hui (許智峯) fled Hong Kong on the last day of November in 2020. The former Hong Kong lawmaker says if he had left
Never Quite Safe: Hong Kong Democracy Activists on Coming to Terms With Exile Under the Shadow of Transnational Repression
Read the first article on four activists’ decision to leave Hong Kong, or to not go back. After fleeing Hong Kong to Germany in November 2017, Ray
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Chinese state media gave a response to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeseth’s Shangri-La Dialogue speech that was swift and loud. But the Chinese
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Read parts two and three. In early fall 2020, Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui (許智峯) made preparations to fly to the Netherlands for a work trip at the
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Last week, a Malaysian official announced the first ever deployment of DeepSeek and Huawei Ascend-powered AI servers at a national scale outside of











