The dangers posed by the largely unregulated commercial data market prompted the Biden administration to try to prevent adversarial countries from exploiting Americans’ sensitive personal data.

The arrival of two giant pandas in San Diego is a sign of China’s need to make friends in the US tech industries.

China is making chip progress despite US efforts to contain its industry.

China has a lot of vacant retail space, including many underused shopping malls. An urban policy scholar describes how the Chinese are rethinking what the mall is for.

Discussions about potential bans highlight the tension between Western countries and China over the app.

Disinformation campaigns often use a set of rhetorical devices that you can learn to spot, like conspiracy narratives, good versus evil framing, and revealed secrets.

The two superpowers – and super-emitters – recently put out a joint statement on climate change.

The international quest for green energy is reliant on ‘sacrificial zones’ in developing countries.

ChatGPT and its ilk give propagandists and intelligence agents a powerful new tool for interfering in politics. The clock is ticking on learning to spot this disinformation before the 2024 election.

Developers can make up for natural habitat loss themselves or pay a restoration fee to the government.