The United States and China are locked in a race for supremacy in artificial intelligence (AI), the driving technology behind the next industrial revolution. With sweeping impacts across national security, economics, and civil liberties, the U.S.–China AIRead more https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/the-hidden-front-in-the-us-china-ai-race-5873786
The European Union said on June 18 that China’s online marketplace AliExpress failed to do more to curb the sale of illegal products on its platform, placing the company at risk of a hefty fine. AliExpress, owned by China-based e-commerce giant Alibaba, 
Lawyers for one of the Chinese nationals accused of smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen into the United States are already in talks to try to resolve the case, according to a court document filed on June 17. Yunqing Jian, 33, was a researcher at the 
Laos—a landlocked country wedged between China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma—is suffering an exodus of human capital, as organized crime fueled by Chinese money lures graduates away with paychecks that dwarf local wages. Students who master the