David Goldman It is simply too late to try to suppress China. The United States must either spend seriously on research and development, along with industrial policy, or it will lose the race for twenty-first-century technological supremacy. Western media, for the most part, has ignored a remarkable array …
Read More »China insight: growth, resilience, greenness
Mara Warwick Mara Warwick, now the World Bank country director for China, was the World Bank’s Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Project (2009-2014) after the devastating Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008 that claimed more than 69,000 lives and affected many parts of China. She also served as a …
Read More »Is It Time for the Big Six to Start Paying for Europe’s New Network Infrastructure?
Renata Thiebaut The European Commission recently released Gigabit Infrastructure Act Proposal (GIA) draft has stirred up controversy regarding the involvement of the Big Six technology companies in co-funding Europe’s advanced network expansions. The draft, should it be approved by the European Parliament and Council, will replace the 2014 …
Read More »Is U.S. Diplomacy as Good as Dead?
Paul Pillar Whether the United States can follow other major powers in ending the dearth of diplomacy will depend heavily on the direction of domestic U.S. politics. Peter Baker, White House correspondent for the New York Times, published an analytic piece the other day that should be disturbing …
Read More »America and South Korea: Here’s to the Next Seventy Years
Jongsoo Lee The seventy-year-old U.S.-ROK alliance is critical to the national interests of both nations and is among the cornerstones of the rules-based international order. The alliance between the United States and South Korea (Republic of Korea) is a cornerstone of the U.S. security architecture in the Indo-Pacific …
Read More »Who will live in the new capital? Is this related to New Jordan?
Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh Where are we heading? We no longer ask this question. What’s more important is on is what is going on. That is the real question. It is not guaranteed that we will get satisfactory answers to any of these queries, especially those vague questions. …
Read More »Munich Security Conference, a bid to regain western self-confidence and reputation
By Shehab Al Makahleh Over 30 heads of state, senior politicians, military officers, diplomats and 110 ministers and business representatives conferred have taken part in the 59th Munich Security Conference, to discuss security challenges the world is undergoing. The current conference comes a week before the first anniversary …
Read More »Generative AI (Chat GPT) and its Implications for Pakistan
Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence that can generate new data, such as text, images, or music, based on the patterns it has learned from existing data. This is achieved through techniques such as deep learning and neural networks. Generative AI has the potential to have a significant …
Read More »A lost Opportunity: Spy-Balloon Saga
With advanced technology, states have adopted new means to defend their interests abroad, but this has also opened new avenues for crisis and conflict. On February 4, 2023, a balloon flying over Charlotte, North Carolina became a spoiler and caused a wrench in already tense US-China relations. According …
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