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“China is being idealised”

VON Ruben Donsbach

From TikTok to AI: China expert Katja Drinhausen on how Beijing is shaping its country’s image and expanding its global influence

Iceland's no vote does not undermine the EU's appeal

VON Philippe JacquéPaywall

Driven in part by concerns over reopening the issue of fishing rights, the Icelandic referendum at the end of August disappointed supporters of European integration. Yet the EU continues to be seen as a stable regional center of governance that many other partners still want to draw closer to.

Skidding Pacts

VON Binoy Kampmark

In the unpardonable ecosystem of graft, favours and corruption that is defence contracting, defence conferencing and all matters tanking over the thinking—in short, the world of defence—the convenient delusion will always have truck over the inconvenient empirical.

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Rising Tigray Tensions Test African Union

VON Allan Ngari

Barely a week after African leaders met in Luanda, Angola to strengthen the African Union’s conflict prevention capacity, escalating tensions in northern Ethiopia are testing whether the AU can turn early warning into action.

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What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math

VON Grace Huckins

OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that solution would be a huge feather in OpenAI’s cap.

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How al-Qaeda Ended

VON Audrey Kurth CroninPaywall

Terrorists sometimes defeat themselves.