Xiao Qiang, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, is a research scientist at the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley.
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How Xi Jinping’s “Controlocracy” Lost Control
Feb 10, 2020 Xiao Qiang shows how an overbearing censorship machine facilitated the spread of the coronavirus beyond Wuhan.
China's Virtual Revolution
Dec 5, 2003 Xiao Qiang
Tiananmen: the Gate to China's Future
Jun 4, 1999 Xiao Qiang
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Circumventing the Great Firewall
Jan 15, 2019 Xiao Qiang and PS Associate Editor Greg Bruno discuss the expansion of China’s digital censorship.
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The Gulf’s Tough Choices
Don Aviv & Sam Worby say that while the Iran war has put the region between a rock and a hard place, it is at least united – for now.
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Stephen Holmes A Deal With Iran Requires an Iran that Can Make One
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Lessons From China’s Age-Gated Internet
Jeremy Daum warns that bad actors will continuously find new ways to circumvent strict rules and mandatory guardrails.
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Margrethe Vestager Tearing Down Big Tech’s Walls
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The Spheres-of-Influence Illusion
Zaki Laïdi
Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, the world’s major powers are once again seeking to avoid direct confrontation by carving up the world. But by linking peripheral territories to their security interests, they risk turning local crises into major international conflicts.
highlights the forces driving the shift from a rules-based order to one governed by force and intimidation.
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Timothy Snyder Why Attack Iran?
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A New Global Energy Shock
When the United States and Israel launched their war of choice against Iran, the Islamic Republic pursued the most effective response at its disposal: triggering a spike in global energy prices by attacking Gulf energy infrastructure and blocking the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. While the long-term effects on energy markets remain difficult to predict, rising energy prices and interest rates have provided US President Donald Trump with powerful reasons to seek an off-ramp from a war opposed by most Americans, including his MAGA base. But with Israel committed to “total victory” and a defiant Islamic Republic now mining the strait, a cascade of global economic disruption appears likely.
Abba Aliyu, et al.offers lessons that should guide efforts to increase energy access and security in India, Nigeria, and beyond.
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Fatih Birol, et al. What African Electrification Requires
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The Iran War’s Muddled Endgame
Shlomo Ben-Ami observes that while the US may not know what it wants, it almost certainly does not want the same thing as Israel.
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Aziz Huq How Bombing Iran May Blow Back on America
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Infrastructure Investment Is the Key to China’s Growth
Yu Yongding explains why fiscal expansion to finance noninflationary spending would help the country meet its GDP targets.
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Nancy Qian China’s Economy Has Not Peaked
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Scotland Is Pointing the Way to a New Economy
Neil McInroy touts new legislation that places local people – not distant investors – at the center of economic life.
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Mariana Mazzucato, et al. Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts
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The Growing Cyber Risk to Supply Chains
Marko Kovacevic & Sasha Pailet Koff warn that safeguarding against such threats can no longer be a technical afterthought in the AI age.
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Diane Coyle Rethinking Supply Chains
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