Are EVs the future or merely a niche market?
The automotive industry is in a most difficult period of its history. How can it predict the future?
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China’s path not taken: global leadership chances
At the dawn of the 21st century, China encountered a series of decisive junctures that could have reshaped not just its destiny but that of the entire world. There was a striking series of missed opportunities and what-ifs that could have turned global events in a different direction.
Steelworkers at the UK’s largest production plant vote to strike over job losses
LONDON (AP) — Steelworkers at Britain’s largest steel production plant voted to strike for the first time in around 40 years to protest the planned loss of 2,800 jobs by Indian owner Tata Steel, union officials said Thursday.
Will new police chief end Philippines war on drugs?
The President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., named Major General Rommel Francisco Marbil as the country’s new police chief last week. Marbil replaces General Benjamin Acorda Jr., who retired at the start of April, only three months after his term had been extended by the president. The appointment has raised hopes of an end to the country’s lethal war on drugs.
Demographic disaster may have an unappreciated upside
During the coming decades, it may become increasingly difficult to induce Americans to help defend any of the increasingly numerous countries with birth rates far too low to replace their population, even if a country in question is democratically governed.
China-India-US power balance at stake in 2 elections
Two elections this year may shift the triangular balance of power among China, India and the US.
India’s choice: democratic revival or Orwellian future
George Orwell wrote in 1984: “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”