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Why the 'one-China Principle' won't change

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Putin's perestroika

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in Moscow, Russia, August 5, 2019. /Xinhua Photo Editor's note: Nikola Mikovic is a freelance journalist based in Serbia. He

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Stability is what truly matters when assessing the trade deal

Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, and

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How China overcame the worst of the trade war

Yangshan Deep Water Port in east China's Shanghai, August 25, 2019. Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford univ

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Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue

Mozilla laid off about 70 employees today, TechCrunch has learned.In an internal memo, Mozilla chairwoman and interim CEO Mitchell Baker specifically mentions the slow rollout of the organization

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Google Cloud gets a premium support plan with 15-minute response times

Google Cloud today announced the launch of its premium support plans for enterprise and mission-critical needs. This new plan brings Google’s support offerings for the Google Cloud Platform (GC

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How U.S. pressure is changing Silicon Valley social media firms

Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, and

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Instagram tests Direct Messaging on web where encryption fails

Instagram will finally let you chat from your web browser, but the launch contradicts Facebook’s plan for end-to-end encryption in all its messaging apps. Today Instagram began testing Direct Me

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Google acquires Pointy, a startup to help brick-and-mortar retailers list products online, for $163M

Google has been on a long-term mission to build inroads into the world of e-commerce by working more closely with brick-and-mortar retailers, and now it looks like it plans to extend that work a littl

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Renewed China-U.S. semi-annual dialogue is a positive development

Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, and

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America's China tech paranoia to end the U.S. civilian drone program

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Google brings IBM Power Systems to its cloud

As Google Cloud looks to convince more enterprises to move to its platform, it needs to be able to give businesses an onramp for their existing legacy infrastructure and workloads that they can’

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US Reportedly Warns Iraq it Will Shut Down its Fed Reserve Bank Account If US Troops Are Booted Out

Following the US airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian top general Qasem Soleimani, Iraq’s parliament voted on 5 January to expel the foreign military presence from the

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What's the future of cross-Strait ties after Taiwan election?

The Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan, southeast China. Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durh

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Of royals and reforms, why the Meghan debacle matters

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in London, Britain. Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and

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Zuckerberg ditches annual challenges, but needs cynics to fix 2030

Mark Zuckerberg won’t be spending 2020 focused on wearing ties, learning Mandarin or just fixing Facebook. “Rather than having year-to-year challenges, I’ve tried to think about what

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CES2020 reveals challenges and opportunities of Chinese tech

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