China

Despite its potent technology sector, the country is being surpassed by China and the United States in the development of physical artificial intelligence

The Asian giant is the world’s largest online marketplace. In a book that was recently translated into English, author Hu Anyan chronicles his precarious experience in the parcel delivery sector 

Opacity surrounds incidents at scientific facilities, with over 400 cases documented in the last half-century worldwide, including a cloud of bacteria that affected 10,000 people in 2019

The prestigious publication selects the rise of solar and wind power as the main scientific breakthrough of the year and laments the White House’s ‘poor decision’ to back fossil fuels

A classified version of Washington’s controversial National Security Strategy proposes creating a new forum of powers that would exclude the Old Continent

The Caribbean country has the world’s largest crude oil reserves, but years of underinvestment are hindering its production

The seizure of tankers points to a gradual plan to cripple the finances of Nicolás Maduro’s regime

The CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind in 2010 reflects on today’s technological challenges: ‘My main hope is that everyone alive will feel the benefits of a revolution in intelligence that empowers them to achieve and do more’

The author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ applauds the EU’s initiatives to curb big tech and calls on the bloc not to bow to pressure from Trump

Ana Corina Sosa delivers her mother’s acceptance speech at a ceremony marked by condemnation of the violence of Maduro’s regime

The United States has launched a cultural and ideological war against liberal Europe

Washington’s offensive revives the specter of Nicolás Maduro’s downfall, an expectation that continues to shape the course of Chavismo’s rivals

The director of the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics criticizes the EU’s appeasement policy towards Trump

President Lula da Silva presents the $38 billion project as he tries to strike a delicate balance between Beijing and Washington, his largest trade partners

Tired of the hyper-competitiveness of metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai, a new generation is beginning to move to cities like Chengdu and Changsha

The 22-year-old became a social media sensation, with long lines of customers coming daily to buy his rice from the back of his car. Now ‘El Chino Venezolano’ has opened a business in the trendy Malasaña neighborhood of the Spanish capital

A Yale University study reveals that duties are the highest they have been since the start of World War II, despite recent cuts

Various industry analysts estimate that the acquisitions made by the Asian giant are far greater than those officially declared

Armenia seeks to distance itself from Russian dominance in a regional context where multiple actors are vying to assert their influence

Russia is offering discounts of up to $23 per barrel before the US president’s measures on its two major oil companies take effect

The Beijing-controlled megacity is courting international researchers with astronomical salaries and cutting-edge equipment. After its success story with trade and capital flows, it now wants to do the same with science and tech

Beijing is mobilizing its full diplomatic, investment, and technological capacity to consolidate its position of power against the United States

The head of the European think tank Bruegel argues that Washington, under the Trump administration, has become an unreliable partner, and this strengthens China’s ties with Latin America, Africa, and Asia

The attack is ‘an escalation’ in hacking, said the company Anthropic, whose tool Claude was used to target large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies and government agencies

Beijing is betting on an ultra-high voltage transmission system to integrate its huge renewable energy production into an interconnected national grid

The situation of these animals in Canada, France, and Spain reflects how welfare laws fall short in safeguarding their future