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...Wang Yiwei, an international relations scholar at Renmin University in Beijing, said the DPP victory was no surprise for China as the party has gradually become more deeply embedded in Taiwanese politics...
...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....
...Wang Yiwei, a professor at Renmin University, said there were doubts over what this year’s conference could achieve, with many of the attendees distracted by domestic issues....
...“There is a spirit of the times and it is not a democratic one,” says Larry Diamond, a professor at Stanford University, who more than a decade ago coined the phrase “democratic recession”....
...“By spending a lot on advertising, you create an implied warranty for your product,” said Khalil Philander, an assistant professor at Washington State University who researches crypto-gambling....
...When news of Covid-19 first emerged from Wuhan, Li mobilised his connections on both sides of the Pacific....
...The group is using Risc-V — pronounced “Risc-five” — an open-source chip design architecture created in 2010 by the University of California, Berkeley....
...“It will be very difficult for Japan to achieve a V-shaped recovery in the number of new births,” he said, arguing that the most optimistic scenario might be maintaining the 2022 level or a little higher...
...Consultant, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, ON, Canada...
...like inflation, oil prices and the US interest rate, the year started on a positive note [for the privatisation drive],” said N R Bhanumurthy, vice-chancellor of the Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University...
...Chung came of age in the late 1990s, after completing her studies at Seoul National University and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart....
...Freeman said he was “reaching out to science allies” outside the EU including Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region....
...Academics from Chongqing University and Sun Yat-sen University said in a report analysing the initial nationwide lockdown in early 2020 that homeless people were hit by a “substantial decline in incomes”...
...Additional reporting by Guill Ramos in Manila Letters in response to this article: Marcos win shows fragility of Philippines democracy / From Maria Carmela V Zabala, Pasig City, Philippines Invoking Pushkin...
...Alistair Milne is a payments expert and professor at Loughborough University....
...Russia, by the 19th century, stretched to the Pacific and down to the Caucasus and Central Asia but was sparsely populated, a problem then and now....
...A Rotary Foundation scholarship brought me to Japan for the first time after university, and that’s when I properly learned Japanese and met my relatives here....
...Letter in response to this article: Small economies require new development model / From Aleksandr V Gevorkyan, Henry George Chair in Economics, The Peter J Tobin College of Business, St John’s University...
...Letter in response to this article: Consumer boycott would bring big emitters to heel / From Andreas V Georgiou, Darnestown, MD, US...
...“Companies are frozen like rabbits in the headlights,” said Alison Taylor of New York University’s Stern business school. “The supply chain oversight nightmare is coming to a head.”...
...Another biotech, GL Rapha, will produce doses of Russia’s Sputnik V jab for global use. Additional reporting by Sherry Fei Ju in Beijing...
...Fifty years ago, on July 4 1971, Michael S Hart typed the text of “The Declaration of Independence” into a Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois....
...The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which tracks data on the health of democracies, recently reclassified the country as an “electoral autocracy”....
...“The trajectory is very scary right now,” virologist Shahid Jameel, of Ashoka University, told me. “This kind of surge is going to be catastrophic.”...
...Phase 3 trials of Sputnik V began in September on 30,000 volunteers....
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