While the US insists Ukraine is free to join, Russia claims cultural ties with Ukraine and sees the eastern expansion of the alliance as a security challenge. With the threat of a Russian invasion mounting, Ukraine’s best chance at peace is to become a neutral state like Switzerland.
Big data and artificial intelligence have been deployed to help contain the virus and hunt for a vaccine. But concerns persist over the threat to privacy and tech’s promotion of misinformation.
The US-China trade war has been more of a tariff war. If the world’s two largest economies could reach a tariff agreement, Donald Trump would go down in history for opening up a zero-tariffs Chinese market for US goods.