Tag: global affairs
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As lithium prices plunge 80% from their peak, mining towns across Latin America are grappling with layoffs and shuttered businesses. https://restofworld.org/2025/lithium-price-crash-latin-america-mining/?utm_source=semafor more ›
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AI governance has transitioned from soft law-such as national AI strategies and voluntary guidelines-to binding regulation at an unprecedented pace. This evolution has produced a complex legislative landscape: blurred definitions… more ›
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Beneath the free-market rhetoric, Washington actually intervenes to control the building blocks of AI systems https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/us-artificial-intelligence-regulations more ›
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The end of rising powers. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/stagnant-order-michael-beckley more ›
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A multibillion-dollar fraud industry has taken root across Southeast Asia, fueled partly by trafficking victims. In lawless zones along the Myanmar-Thai border, Chinese-run compounds force thousands to scam strangers online… more ›
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While European countries band together to help tackle devastating fires, Africa is being left on its own, writes Nick Ferris. All despite the fact that blazes in Africa cause far… more ›
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The Trump administration needs a more nuanced approach to Africa that doesn’t alienate the people and the markets that it is seeking to engage. To do so requires the president… more ›
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The Italian Prime Minister has so far pursued a careful, pragmatic approach to government. Her greatest test will be whether she can implement her ambitious reform of Italy’s constitution while… more ›
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In recent months “neijuan” (内卷), or “involution,” has become one of the most important buzzwords in Chinese policymaking circles. It has come to describe a disruptive process of relentless competition… more ›