Tag: globalization

• Experts say China’s low-level cyber war is becoming severe threat

  September 23, 2021

  Chinese state-sponsored hacking is at record levels, western experts say, accusing Beijing of engaging in a form of low-level warfare that is escalating despite US, British and other political efforts… more ›

• Beyond the Meme: Ever Given, Supply Chains, and the Physical World

  June 20, 2021

  For all we may talk about software eating the world, it’s clear (and became a lot clearer during the PPE shortages of the early pandemic) that the physical world still… more ›

• The New Wave of Fishless Fish Is Here

  December 2, 2020

  Food scientists and marketers are creating healthy, plant-based, imitation tuna, crab, and shrimp that look and taste like the real thing. Many of the most popular seafoods now suddenly face… more ›

• The future of humanitarian action: Decolonizing humanitarian aid

  September 27, 2020

  There has never been a more important time to discuss the future of humanitarian action. The number and severity of humanitarian crises are growing around the world. More people are… more ›

• The European Union may soon get its own Magnitsky Act to target human rights abusers

  September 20, 2020

  Amid a global assault on human rights stretching from Belarus to Hong Kong to Yemen, the European Union signaled yesterday that it may act to deter corrupt kleptocrats and state… more ›

• Can ICC chief prosecutor Bensouda hit back at President Trump?

  September 20, 2020

  A climate of fear reigns in The Hague following Washington’s move to blacklist the ICC prosecutor in response to the institution’s opening of an inquiry into war crimes and crimes… more ›

• China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims

  September 1, 2020

  China has secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps in the past three years, dramatically escalating its campaign against Muslim minorities even as it publicly claimed the detainees had… more ›

• The Sordid, Sudsy Rise of Soap in China

  August 23, 2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust soap back in the limelight: Of all the hypothesized solutions to viral transmission — from big data-powered contact tracing to disinfectant injections — few are… more ›

• China’s Plans to Win Control of the Global Order

  July 15, 2020

  The Chinese Communist Party leadership believe they are in the midst of an ‘intense, ideological struggle’ for survival and that to win they must defeat the West. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-plans-global-order more ›

• The 90% economy that lockdowns will leave behind

  May 3, 2020

  Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it,… more ›