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Tit-for-tat tariffs as Trump escalates trade war
News, Kate Sullivan & Josh Wingrove, Published on 08/03/2025
» US President Donald Trump delivered on his threat to hit Canada and Mexico with sweeping import levies and doubled an existing charge on China, spurring swift reprisals that plunged the world economy into a deepening trade war. Yesterday, Mr Trump backtracked and postponed Canada and Mexico tariffs for a month.
Hipster antitrust policy is actually conservative
News, Matthew Yglesias, Published on 11/06/2024
» Antitrust policy is having a moment. Led by Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, US President Joe Biden's administration is turning its attention to suspect activity not only in Big Tech and Big Oil, but also in Big Alcohol, Big Hotel and Big Concert. The rationale for this new push, however, is ambiguous: Is antitrust law a tool to protect consumers from higher prices, or to defend small businesses against big ones?
The rise of AI in political warfare
News, Parmy Olson, Published on 07/05/2024
» This year promises to be a whopper for elective government, with billions of people -- or more than 40% of the world's population -- able to vote in an election. But nearly five months into 2024, some government officials are quietly wondering why the looming risk of AI hasn't, apparently, played out. Even as voters in Indonesia and Pakistan have gone to the polls, they are seeing little evidence of viral deepfakes skewing an electoral outcome, according to a recent article in Politico, which cited "national security officials, tech company executives and outside watchdog groups". AI, they said, wasn't having the "mass impact" that they expected. That is a painfully shortsighted view. The reason? AI may be disrupting elections right now, and we just don't know it.
The threat that is persuasive AI
News, Mark Esposito & Josh Entsminger & Terence Tse, Published on 08/01/2024
» What does it take to change a person's mind? As generative artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in customer-facing systems -- think of human-like phone calls or online chatbots -- it is an ethical question that needs to be addressed widely.
SK's Yoon uses Biden summit to push global agenda
News, Josh Smith, Published on 26/05/2022
» South Korea's new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, used a largely successful summit with US President Joe Biden over the weekend to lay the foundation for his goal of enabling South Korea to play a more active role around the world.
Slimmer Kim a propaganda move
News, Josh Smith, Published on 01/07/2021
» A rare mention in North Korean state media of leader Kim Jong-un's health could be intended to head off speculation and play up shared sacrifice amid food shortages, analysts said.
Biden team's China focus puts S.Korea on the spot
News, Hyonhee Shin & Josh Smith, Published on 18/03/2021
» For the first time in years there are liberal presidents in South Korea and the United States, but the change in US administrations hasn't made it any easier for Seoul to balance its alliance with Washington and its economic reliance on China.
More than just combat exercises
News, Published on 09/03/2020
» 'Sawasdee krub," US Marine Corps Communication Strategy and Operations Officer, Capt George McArthur said as he sat down with the Bangkok Post at the end of an amphibious operation at Hat Yao beach in Chon Buri's Sattahip on Feb 28.
Give people a chance to sell their data to FB
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 01/02/2019
» It's easy to be outraged by the revelation that Facebook has been paying users between the ages of 13 and 35 up to US$20 (624 baht) a month to allow practically unlimited access to their smartphone usage data. But outrage about the social media giant is so 2017. The latest dubious practice could be an opportunity to consider a more finely tuned business model.
Can the World Bank ever redeem itself?
News, Devesh Kapur & Arvind Subramanian, Published on 05/12/2018
» In recent years, as the World Bank's financing role has been eclipsed by the rise of private capital and a surge in money from China, its leaders have been desperately seeking a new mission. And interminable reorganisations, politicised appointments and the changing priorities of successive presidents have contributed to the perception that the institution is less than functional. But can that change?