China’s Social Credit System

China's biggest rubbish dump, which is 500 feet deep and the size of nearly 100 football pitches, will soon be filled up, according to the country's state media. The massive Jiangcungou landfill site, situated in Xi'an in north-western China, opened in 1994 …

Since the Peoples Republic of China announced in 2014 that they will launch a new system that is supposed to make sure its citizens and corporations will become more trustworthy (as the China Daily has reported), it has been a hot topic of speculation among W…

What was the first thing that you did this morning when you woke up? And what was the last thing that you did before you went to bed last night? Chances are that many of us probably most of us were on our smartphones. Our day-to-day consumption of all things…

Computing experts dismiss the announcement as “absolute and complete fiction” but at least one privacy experts fears that if China — which announced it is officially researching a 6G mobile network — uses the technology to track the public, it could cause “Wo…

Wang Sicong, the only son of Chinese real estate mogul Wang Jianlin and the heir to his estimated $12.5 billion fortune, has been banned from doing stereotypical billionaire heir activities: traveling and partying.  According to The South China Morning Post,…

Most people know that they can rate their Uber driver, and that the Uber driver can rate passengers in return. If you slip far below the average passenger rating, you may even get booted from the service. Now, the app perhaps best known as "Uber for dogs" ha…

The fall of the Berlin Wall on the night of November 8, 1989 dramatically and suddenly accelerated the collapse of communism in Europe. The end of travel restrictions between East and West Germany dealt a death blow to the closed society of the Soviet Union. …

The son of a Chinese billionaire who infamously bought two luxury Apple Watch Editions for his pet dog has been placed on the countrys official list of financially discredited individuals. A court decision means that he can no longer fly first class, go on e…

U.S. Launches National Security Probe Into Chinese-Owned App TikTok The Treasury Departments Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has reportedly launched a national security investigation into TikTok, a rapidly growing video-streaming…

West Berliners watch East German border guards demolish a section of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. BERLIN (Project Syndicate) The fall of the Berlin Wall on the night of Nov. 8, 1989, dramatically and suddenly accelerated the collapse of communism in Eu…