UK spy chief warns China’s technology is ‘urgent problem’

LONDON: China’s growing technological dominance “is an increasingly urgent problem” for Western countries, who must act to defend their values and influence, the director of Britain’s GCHQ spy agency warned on Tuesday (Oct 11). In a speech to the RUSI defence think-tank in London, Jeremy Fleming said “technology has becomeContinue Reading

Putin’s off-ramp and why he won’t likely take it

The world is now witness to a new phase in the Ukraine war. The attack on the Kerch bridge and the subsequent retaliatory Russian missiles strikes on Kiev and other Ukrainian cities indicate that the war is escalating. But just how far will this escalation go and is a full-scale nuclear exchange – however unthinkable […]

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Bernanke wins a Nobel in economics. No, seriously

TOKYO – Other than – perhaps? – trolling Alan Greenspan, it’s not clear what the Nobel committee intended by honoring former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke with the prize for economics. Year after year, “maestro” economist Greenspan gets overlooked by the folks in Stockholm. And rightfully so. The damage from the bubbles he blew late […]

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