Many countries use exit bans to prevent people accused of crimes from escaping justice, but the bar is usually high. In China ...

China’s innovation chains often start with grants for researchers, who find a placement in state-backed labs. These in turn ...

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The global ai race is defined by competing approaches, led by America and China. On one side is a nimble ecosystem of tech ...

This month’s summits between America, Russia and Europe haves produced no concrete agreements on ending Ukraine’s war. On ...

Such projections, though, now have been foiled by India’s government. On August 21st India’s parliament passed a bill banning ...

L ike many politicians running for office, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old New York Democratic mayoral candidate, is partly a ...

H olidaymakers, including American vice-presidents, are drawn to rural Britain partly because it seems to change so little.

The populist bind, therefore, is a tight one. Pity the finance minister hoping to keep debt burdens under control and the ...

As is well known to the 5m radio listeners who followed the harvest over several days in early August, the background to this ...

Japan wants both to revive its domestic champions and to attract foreign ones, such as TSMC, the Taiwanese semiconductor ...

The world’s biggest market is less central to global trade today than it once was. At the start of the century, America ...