China’s Social Credit System

The American inheritance and the American promise are both precious and precarious. If we don’t defend them vigorously, no one else will. January 26, 2020 U.S. senator from Nebraska Michael Tunk / IdeasIn August 1784, when the American merchant vessel Empress of China finally docked in Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) after…

While conceived of and functioning differently in diverse contexts, ‘face’ describes a phenomenon that exists in every human society. Its most basic sense concerns the public presentation and perception of the self. Someone who has face possesses something of positive social value that arises from social approval of a person’s…

Last week, senior U.S. officials warned their British counterparts that letting Chinese telecom giants like Huawei build next-generation 5G internet infrastructure would be nothing short of madness for national security. The comments follow a Council of the E…

Billionaire investor George Soros has said the “biggest and most frightening setback” to open societies comes from India where “a democratically elected Narendra Modi is creating a Hindu nationalist state, imposing punitive measures on Kashmir, a semi-autonomous Muslim region, and threatening to deprive millions of Muslims of their citizenship”. Soros…

Police forces in London, UK, have confirmed they will be switching on controversial Live Facial Recognition (LFR) systems, aiming to spot known criminals or suspects in crime hotspots around the city. The system will be able to flag individuals on a watch-lis…

DAVOS, Switzerland (Project Syndicate) Were living at a transformational moment in history. The survival of open societies is endangered, and we face an even greater crisis: climate change, which threatens the survival of our civilization. These twin challe…

Left-wing billionaire George Soros, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said he’s injecting $1 billion into a new university network globally during a speech in which he criticized President Trump as a “con man,” the “ultimate …

Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, For decades China has been pushing its people towards a more "homogeneous way of thinking." This article is focused on exploring some of the cultural "group-think" countries tend to breed into their population…

Mark Matthews, MD of Julius Baer, says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman does not have much fiscal wriggle room in Budget, but if somehow she can pull a rabbit out of the hat, it would make the infrastructure sector look interesting. Excerpts from an interview with ETNOW:- We are now counting…

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