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Canada’s Carney arrives in China for state visit

Beijing, Jan 14: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a state visit, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said. Carney, who is expected to meet President Xi Jinping for talks on Friday, is the first Canadian leader to visit China in eight years. The two leaders met

Europe Enters the Slop War

Not so long ago, social-media companies billed themselves as tools for connecting with real people and keeping up with the

Grok Is Testing Whether AI Governance Means Anything

Governments worldwide increasingly agree on a basic premise of AI governance: systems deployed at scale must be safe, controllable, and

The High Cost of Trump’s Amateur Diplomats

Trump, now engaged in a brazenly neo-imperialist project in Venezuela, has handed China a golden opportunity to portray itself as

UN climate chief says stepping back from climate cooperation will…

The United States' decision to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will leave the United States

Trump says will meet Venezuelan opposition’s Machado ‘next week’

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will be in Washington next week, indicating

Russia says it used new Oreshnik ballistic missile against Ukraine

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Friday that the military has used the new Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in a strike on

European political order ‘in danger’, France warns

The European political order "is today in danger", France's foreign minister said on Friday, sharply criticising his country's long-time ally

Overcapacity Is China’s Biggest AI Advantage

American policymakers ignore this shift at their peril. By narrowly focusing on winning the race for better models and chips,

Does Venezuela Herald a No-Rules International Order?

The danger now is not that states will openly defect, but that they will quietly adapt to a rogue US.