On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping reiterated the longstanding Chinese goal of strengthening science and technology to help achieve national rejuvenation. China’s advances in areas such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and facial recognition have already unlocked remarkable economic opportunities, supported China’s rapid military modernisation and mass surveillance capabilities, and enabled it to pursue its preferred digital environment internationally. Xi, as with all great power leaders, understands that technology is central to national power and relationships among states internationally.
While China’s ambitions of becoming a high-tech power are still yet to be fully realised, its progress already poses a challenge to the tech leadership and edge of the US and its partners. Only last month, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged “the technological edge enjoyed historically by Australia and our allies is under chall
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Where Can You Fly Right Now? Covid Zero Rethink Spurs Asian Travel
Kyunghee Park and Layan Odeh, Bloomberg News A surfer rides the waves at Surin Beach in Phuket on June 26. Photographer: Luke Duggleby/Bloomberg , Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) With some countries in Asia starting to frame Covid-19 as a disease that needs to be managed rather than stamped out, thereâs hope 2021 may not be the total travel writeoff feared a few months ago.
Speaking in parliament earlier this week, Singapore Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said that while the coronavirus is unlikely to go away any time soon, rising vaccination rates and improving treatments mean it can be thought of âmore like influenza.â Similarly, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised a ânew dealâ that would shift the countryâs strategy from suppressing the coronavirus to managing it.