China’s Social Credit System

A week after the G7 patted itself on the back for agreeing charitably to hand out 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines (“a drop in the ocean,” as Amnesty International put it), a very different group of leaders will convene virtually on Friday to hash out a more durable way…

Chinese astronaut Tang Hongbo (left), commander Nie Haisheng (center), and astronaut Liu Boming (right) inside the Tianhe core module of China’s space station. Credit: CCTV Three Chinese astronauts floated into the country’s new Tiangong space station Thursday, becoming the first people to board China’s outpost in orbit after a successful…

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Home News Spaceflight China is poised to launch its first crewed spaceflight in nearly five years. The Shenzhou-12 mission is scheduled to lift off tonight (June 16) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 9:22 p.m. EDT (0122 GMT and 9:22 a.m. Beijing time on June 17), Chinese…

by Andrew Jones — June 16, 2021 A render depicting phase 3 of the China-Russia ILRS roadmap. Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — Russia and China unveiled a roadmap for a joint International Lunar Research Station Wednesday to guide collaboration and development of the project. Chinese and Russian space officials revealed the…

Sorry, your browser doesn’t support embedded videos. Opening fully driverless Robotaxi service to the general public in California starting in 2022 FREMONT, Calif. — Silicon Valley-based Pony.ai, a leading autonomous driving company, today announced that it has begun regular and daily fully driverless testing on public roads in Fremont and…

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, France's President Emmanuel Macron, and US President Joe Biden wait for the meeting to start of the North Atlantic Council at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels on June 14, 2021. Photo: AFPBRUSSELS: US President Joe Biden…

NATO leaders vowed Monday to work together against the "systemic challenge" posed by an increasingly assertive China and put Russia on notice about its flouting of international law, though France's Emmanuel Macron urged the alliance not to let Beijing distract it from more pressing issues. As US President Joe Biden renewed Washington's…

The leaders of the G7 countries agreed at their latest meeting to invest in building up the infrastructure of developing countries in a bid to counter China's "Belt and Road" initiative. The agreement shows the firm resolve of the international community to thwart China's imperial ambitions. U.S. news media claimed…

G7 leaders on Sunday vowed to start delivering one billion doses of Covid vaccines and to step up action on climate change, in a US-led summit call to arms that also took on China and Russia. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference on the final day…