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China Daily, August 15, 2020. Junfu Zhao is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Utah. Zhao can be reached at junfu.zhao [at] utah.edu. The author thanks Rudiger von Arnim, Minqi Li, and Han Cheng for their helpful comments. Following the Donald Trump administration’s publication of its 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy that designated China as a strategic competitor, the tensions between the United States and China have been heightened, encompassing trade disputes, China’s economic regime and territorial sovereignty, conflicts over geopolit...

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin defined the five “basic features” of imperialism: (1) the concentration of production and capital developed to such a high stage that it created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of banking capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy; (3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance; (4) the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the w...

June 4, 2021 You are here: Home / Policy / Health / Lessons learned from Medical Education in the times of COVID-19 Lessons learned from Medical Education in the times of COVID-19 Credit: Unsplash This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. Massiel Méndez Jorge, a final-year medical student, physiology teacher, and research assistant at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Dominican Republic. She is affiliated with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece...

Conditioning U.S. economic assistance to Israel would not be a game changer for the country — at least economically.

June 2, 2021—In a population-based analysis involving multiple countries, Png et al found that abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) mortality continu