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Venezuela

East Asia’s political vulnerability

Popular discontent is fuelling protest and paralysis across Latin America. If East Asia isn't careful, it could be next. In Ecuador, protests against anti-austerity measures, including the reduction of fuel subsidies, forced President Lenín Moreno to declare…

bubmagDecember 16, 2019

Trade War

China Roundup: GitHub’s China ambitions and WeWork rival’s big hopes

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunchs China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we are looking at how WeWork’s largest rival in China — UCommune — is pulling a…

bubmagDecember 16, 2019

Riots

Everything Damon Lindelof has said about Watchmen season 2

In the first season of HBOs Watchmen, creator Damon Lindelof honored the legacy of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons original comic by turning characters on their heads and using superhero masks as mirrors for society in peril. Now that the series incredible first …

bubmagDecember 16, 2019

Matteo Salvini

At the Vanguard of the Anti-Globalism Revolution

Gadflies like Boris Johnson are giving voice to communities torn asunder by neoliberalism.Back on December 6, less than a week before Boris Johnsons momentous victory in the British parliamentary elections, The Wall Street Journals Gerard Baker offered an ana…

bubmagDecember 16, 2019

Blockchain

What the ‘Blockheads’ at Pacific Gas & Electric Are Doing With Blockchain

CK Umachi and Dick Kim, both of whom work for Pacific Gas Electric (PG&E), the California natural gas and electric company, spoke about the companys work on blockchain at Blockchain Expo 2019 in Santa Clara, California. Both work on a team called Grid…

bubmagDecember 16, 2019

Scotland

House clad in burnt larch perches on a rocky site in the Scottish Highlands

Mary Arnold-Forster Architects used planks of burnt larch to clad a cross-laminated timber house in the Scottish Highlands raised on low foundations above the rocky landscape. The house is located in the small village of Nedd, which is also the name of the p…

bubmagDecember 16, 2019

China's Strategy

Why China Wants Its Navy to Patrol the Atlantic Ocean

In yet another sign that a New Cold War is in the offing, more evidence is emerging that Beijing will indeed seek a global military footprint and will not be content to be a mere regional leader. With regular naval sorties going back more than a decade into t…

bubmagDecember 16, 2019

Doping in Cycling

How to design a bike race course

Designing the course for a bike race might seem easy. Just pull out Strava Route Builder, have a play around, find some good climbs, and wham: youve got yourself a bike race. Right? Well, no. In fact, its not nearly that simple. Designing a race route is ab…

bubmagDecember 16, 2019

NASDAQ

Asian shares rise as ‘phase one’ trade deal fans confidence

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Asian shares ticked higher on Monday as investors cheered an announced trade agreement between Beijing and Washington over the weekend although jubilation was capped by prevailing scepticism about the deal. U.S. Trade Representative Rob…

bubmagDecember 16, 2019

Nukes

Opinion: Trump needs a better response to Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s resolution

Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst. She is a senior adviser at the University of Delaware's Biden Institute, which is not affiliated with the Biden campaign. Vinograd served on President Barack Obama's National Security Council from 2009 to …

bubmagDecember 16, 2019

East Asia’s political vulnerability

China Roundup: GitHub’s China ambitions and WeWork rival’s big hopes

Everything Damon Lindelof has said about Watchmen season 2

At the Vanguard of the Anti-Globalism Revolution

What the ‘Blockheads’ at Pacific Gas & Electric Are Doing With Blockchain

House clad in burnt larch perches on a rocky site in the Scottish Highlands

Why China Wants Its Navy to Patrol the Atlantic Ocean

How to design a bike race course

Asian shares rise as ‘phase one’ trade deal fans confidence

Opinion: Trump needs a better response to Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s resolution

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