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Victor Gao
Victor Gao
Victor Gao, former interpreter for Deng Xiaoping, is chairman of the China Energy Security Institute and vice-president of the Centre for China and Globalisation.

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.

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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.

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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.

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