The US Government has criticised Ford’s increasingly close ties to China in the same week that the manufacturer revealed a China-centric plan for Australia. Ford’s Australian arm revealed plans to import two vehicles from China this week – the hybrid-powered Bronco Basecamp SUV, and an electric van for delivery companies. It’s part of a push…
A cabinet secretary fretting about his daughter’s university choice might once have been considered a private family matter. In Donald Trump’s America, it has become official content. US transport secretary Sean Duffy recently appeared with his family in a road trip series carried on the department’s YouTube page. In one episode, his daughter, Paloma, said…
“Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.” Donald J. Trump It would be easy to write off the regular word salads of America’s 47th president as the increasingly incoherent ramblings of an elderly man in obvious mental and physical decline. However, one can also argue that Trump’s seemingly dyslexic struggles with the English…
Everyone* hates data centers now. How did that happen? There are lots of theories: People are worried about the environment. Or electric bills. Or their jobs. Or imperious Big Tech billionaires ordering them around. All of the above. Also: It’s China’s fault. That last one doesn’t come up in polling. But it’s quite popular on…
For the first time in nearly two weeks, America has not launched new strikes against Iran in the past 48 hours. The lull comes after 13 consecutive nights of American bombing and 12 attacks by Iran on ships in the Persian Gulf since July 6th, essentially shutting the Strait of Hormuz once more. The ceasefire…
Donald Trump has used an extraordinary prime-time speech to accuse “deep state” bureaucrats of hiding the truth about compromised US election systems and an alleged Chinese operation to influence American voters. The US president, who has for years claimed without evidence that the 2020 election was “rigged”, said he had declassified documents that would prove…
The market realignment over the past week starkly captures the self-defeating logic of America’s technology containment strategy. The momentum began on June 15, when the shares of Chinese artificial intelligence pioneer Zhipu AI, which trade in Hong Kong under Knowledge Atlas Technology, surged by 48 per cent intraday after it announced the open-source release of…
Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue through links in the content below. Palmer Luckey, the billionaire founder of defense technology company Anduril Industries and Oculus VR, is sounding the alarm on America’s dependence on China — and his warning goes far beyond cheap…
More than six months have passed, and Bruna Ferreira still does not understand why she was arrested. Nor does she understand why the Donald Trump administration labeled her a “criminal illegal alien” after her detention. What she does know for certain is that she has lived through a true “nightmare” ever since. She thanks God…
Hackers are excited. Surveillance advertising corporations are elated. Political thought-police are enraptured. China has just approved the world’s first brain-computer chip. And they’ve beaten billionaire tech-bro and MAGA evangelist Elon Musk to market. The coin-sized device, called NEO, is the first surgical implant to pass clinical trials for commercial sale. Version one is optimised to…