Tag: USA

Philadelphia publishes ‘meta’ dashboard for city’s open-data efforts (Ryan Johnston, State Scoop)

The City of Philadelphia on Tuesday announced the launch of a new dashboard to track the city’s progress with sharing its open data. Philadelphia publishes 'meta' dashboard...

China-Africa ties deepen amid US interference (Global Times)

Though the US has been stepping up efforts to pursue closer ties with African countries with a recent visit by US Secretary of State...

UK’s following US to hype ‘boycott’ of Beijing Winter Olympic Games will not stop event from shining (Global Times)

Closely following the US, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly "considering a diplomatic boycott" of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in...

Upcoming ‘economic talk’ between US, Taiwan island a betrayal of Biden’s pledges (Deng Xiaoci, Zhang Changyue, Global Times)

The second so-called economic prosperity partnership dialogue between the US and the island of Taiwan scheduled on Monday has met criticism from Chinese officials...

New Paradigm of US Foreign Policy and Relations with Russia (Dmitry Suslov, Valdai Discussion Club)

US foreign policy is undergoing an important transition. The US withdrawal from Afghanistan drew a final and symbolic line under the period of its foreign policy, which began not...

Russian-U.S. Diaspora Group Shuts Down, Blaming ‘FBI Measures’ (Mike Eckel, RFE RL)

A Russian cultural group in the United States says it has shut down after some of its members were questioned by FBI agents allegedly...

What Xi and Biden forgot to mention on the economy (Tom Westland, East Asia Forum)

According to the official readout, in their virtual summit this week, US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed ‘managing competition responsibly’....

US defence chief pledges to counter Iran during Bahrain visit (Al Jazeera)

The United States’s top defence official has pledged to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, as negotiations remain stalled over Tehran’s tattered atomic...

US and Taiwan to hold second round of economic dialogue (Al Jazeera)

The United States and Taiwan next week will hold the second session of an economic dialogue launched last year in the face of increasing...

‘Born as US citizen’: Afghan refugees welcome newborns in US (Ali Harb and Zubair Babakarkhail, Al Jazeera)

Ahmadzai* had imagined the birth of his first child as a typical Afghan family affair with relatives visiting his home in Kabul to deliver...

Rebuilding the Infrastructure of Sino-American Relations (Minghao Zhao, Project-Syndicate)

US President Joe Biden has been basking in the glow of his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which he signed into law on November 15. But...

Whipping Up America’s Inflation Bogeyman (James K. Galbraith, Project-Syndicate)

The headline chosen for Harvard economist Jason Furman’s November 15 commentary in the Wall Street Journal was both apt and sad. It was apt, because it repurposed then-President Gerald Ford’s...

Strengthening Tomorrow’s U.S. AI and AI-Enabled Workforce (Diana Gehlhaus, CSET)

The acceleration of artificial intelligence adoption has profoundly changed how businesses, individuals, and governments conduct their daily lives. As this trend continues, having a...

China invests in artificial intelligence to counter US Joint Warfighting Concept: Records (Ryan Fedasiuk, Breaking Defense)

For the first time on record, earlier this year an artificial intelligence system reportedly beat one of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) top fighter pilots in...

Recommendations to OSTP on National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (Emily Weinstein, CSET)

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is asking the research community for best practices and policy prescriptions for securing certain U.S....

Forecasting the Future of the DOD-Silicon Valley Relationship: The Wisdom of the Crowd as Arbiter of Expert Disagreement (CSET)

Experts often have different views about big questions relevant to technology and security policy, such as the future of the U.S.-China relationship, or the...