Artist’s reconstruction of Xigou tool-hafting. Image credit: Hulk Yuan, IVPP.

    China’s Xigou Site Yields Evidence of Advanced Stone Tool Technology

    Technological innovations in Africa and Western Europe in the later part of the Middle Pleistocene signal the behavioral complexity of hominin populations. Yet, at the same time, it has long been believed that hominin technologies in Eastern Asia lack signs of innovation and sophistication. Archaeologists have now uncovered evidence of technological innovations at the site…

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    US President Donald Trump has ramped up talk of taking over Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. Photo: AFP

      Europe’s real threat is its own inner ‘demon’, not Russia: former Chinese envoy

      Europe made a “misjudgment” in categorising Russia as its top security threat and instead the continent’s real danger lay in Europeans’ inner “demon”, according to China’s longest-serving ambassador to the US. Cui Tiankai, a former Chinese foreign vice-minister, also claimed Nato had outlived its relevance and argued that the transatlantic security alliance no longer served…

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      Hong Kong education summit to discuss impact of geopolitics on universities

        Hong Kong education summit to discuss impact of geopolitics on universities

        The impact of geopolitics on education, including whether American universities can still offer students a positive experience, will be discussed among 2,500 delegates from more than 65 jurisdictions at a major international conference in Hong Kong next month. The city will host the annual Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) Conference and Exhibition two years…

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        Pro-government, armed civilians at a protest in Caracas, Venezuela on Sunday. Photo: AP

          China is likely to thread the needle after US attack on Venezuela

          China will be patient and play the long game as it views the new geopolitical chessboard, recalibrating carefully in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s move on Saturday to decapitate Venezuela’s leadership, analysts said. In a daring predawn raid, US forces descended on ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and airlifted him shackled and blindfolded…

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          ‘Potentially catastrophic’: US urged to rethink allies, arm sales amid contest with China

          ‘Potentially catastrophic’: US urged to rethink allies, arm sales amid contest with China

          A prominent US think tank has urged Washington to streamline bureaucracy, strengthen institutions and recalibrate its policies with allies to solidify cooperation and consolidate its foothold in the escalating rivalry with China. Intelligence sharing, coalition planning and arms sales are suffering from structural flaws which hinder multinational effective collaboration, risking “potentially catastrophic” results, according to…

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