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Setting the pace in the China-U S tech arms race

2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit to feature pair of discussions Even amid polarized partisan division on everything from coronavirus relief to infrastructure proposals, Congress does have at least one bipartisan bill. It addresses Chinese competition in technology, and will get scrutiny Wednesday. The same day, the Virtual Peace and War Summit at Norwich University will address the same U.S.-China technology race in two online sessions. The John and Mary Frances Patton Peace and War Center is presenting the summit, in the seventh week of an eight-week run. In Congress on Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the Endless Frontier Act, co-sponsored by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the Senate majority leader and Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind. The measure, first proposed in 2020, calls to allocate $110 billion over five years to advance U.S. technology to better compete with China, particularly developing semiconductors and investing in quantum computing.

StAnza, Scotland s International Poetry Festival, goes online this weekend

Updated: March 5, 2021, 9:42 am © SYSTEM StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, is set to go live online this weekend. The annual St Andrews-based celebration of poetry, which is due to open on Saturday, will take the form of a hybrid, digital festival for the first time due to Covid-19, with dozens of local, national and international poets taking part in the festival over nine days StAnza 2021 will open with a first night extravaganza showcasing a selection of poems, film, art and music with readings from Saili Katebe and Jane Longhurst as well as music from Glasgow-based folksinger, songwriter and ukulele player Claire Hastings.

StAnza, Scotland s International Poetry Festival, goes online this weekend

StAnza, Scotland s International Poetry Festival, goes online this weekend
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2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit

2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit Welcome to the 2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit The Peace and War Summit at Norwich University, America’s oldest private military college and birthplace of the Reserved Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), examines significant international issues with an eye at recommending viable solutions. The inaugural summit, a two-day event in September 2018, addressed North Korea’s nuclear and missile challenges. In our 2021 summit, we discuss a most pressing issue in the current global community escalation of the U.S.-China rivalry. Specifically, the 2021 summit highlights challenges derived from military/security, economic, and technological angles. Due to the ongoing pandemic, we offer the 2021 summit virtually. 

Class Wars: The problem with Darren McGarvey s representation of the middle-class

‘ALL my life, people have been insisting that social class is no longer relevant” Darren McGarvey says in the opening of Class Wars, a new documentary series whose first episode aired on BBC Scotland this week. Darren’s mission? To “prove to you just how entrenched social class is in Scotland”. The hook for episode one is a personal sense of crisis. With the success of his book Poverty Safari, he now finds he has “been afforded the very lifestyle I spent much of my life slagging off”. So what now? I was once one of those people who would have strongly resisted this kind of class analysis. Until I was in my mid-20s, I saw it as an inherently reactionary way of looking at the world. Just as there could be no intellectually respectable version of racism, I once believed that obsessing over class simply got in the way of treating other people as individuals, entrenching ­divisions and encouraging people to focus on their differences and alienations from one ­another,

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