Europe-China space collaboration fails to launch

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On January 23, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Josef Aschbacher, announced that Europe has no intentions of sending astronauts to China’s recently completed space station. While this decision will likely do little to slow China’s space ambitions, it suggests that Beijing’s assertive behavior, alleged human-rights abuses and implicit support for Russia’s invasion of […]Continue Reading

The high, high cost of Toyota’s EV blunder

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TOKYO ­­– If you’re wondering why Japan continues to make it easy for China’s economy to race ahead, look no further than events at Toyota Motor. In decades past, Japan’s most celebrated name disrupted the US and Europe with innovation and productivity methods the West struggled to match. Now, a similar disruption is happening to Toyota. The electric […]Continue Reading

South Korea to seek extradition of crypto fugitive Do Kwon

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Kwon reportedly flew from South Korea to Singapore ahead of the company’s crash in May last year. In September, Seoul prosecutors requested that Interpol place him on the red notice list across the agency’s 195 member nations, and also revoked his passport. But questions about his whereabouts intensified after theContinue Reading