Last year I compiled benchmark estimates of the size of the Chinese student market in a paper for the Centre for Independent Studies. With Chinese students back in the news, I have taken the opportunity to revise, expand, and update these estimates with the latest available data.
China’s twenty-first-century propagandists can’t easily write the news the way their twentieth-century forebears could, but they can more effectively shape it.
For students threatened by a deadly and fast-spreading virus, classes may be the last thing on their minds. But university administrators are running scared.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome 2003. Pneumonic plague 2009. Coronavirus 2020. Avian flu just about every other year. Why does it seem like the next virus apocalypse is always coming from China? Compared with other developing countries, China has a highly effective public health service. It has world-class epidemiological laboratories. Its…
It’s tempting to think that the best way forward for AI is to make it easy. In fact, the exact opposite is true.
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The only way forward for Facebook is to convert the Libra into a simple in-app token pegged to local currencies, or to the U.S. Dollar.
While carriers are touting the super-fast download speeds made possible by 5G, and some tech enthusiasts are pumped about its energy savings, the real 5G game-changer is low latency.
