After POLITICO reached out to Babiš and his ANO party for comment, his right-hand man, ANO Vice Chair Karel Havlíček, replied that “it’s nonsense” to say the party has moved toward the far right. Dita Charanzová told POLITICO that “it was clear from the developments in the Czech Republic that the ANO movement would push nationalistic…
“The total value of business in China for Finnish companies is estimated to be more than 20 billion euros per year,” a 2023 report from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs said, which labeled China as “one of our most important trade partners.” “Chinese investments play the largest role in Finland compared to any other…
In late September, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-equipped Earth observation satellite, named the “Hong Kong Youth Science and Technology Innovation Satellite” (香港青年科創號) with support from the ADA Space, a company that is associated with China’s central government and its military-civilian fusion strategy. This cutting-edge satellite – billed by…
What You Need to Know: Had the U.S. Navy proceeded with plans to build 29 Seawolf-class submarines, it may have been better equipped to counter modern threats, especially from China. The Seawolf boasts superior speed, size, and stealth compared to its successors, the Los Angeles and Virginia classes. -However, expanding the Seawolf fleet would have…
Chinese researchers say they have become the first people to use a quantum computer to compromise the type of password-based security system widely employed in critical industries such as defense. Instead of using bits, which can only be 0 or 1, to make calculations like a traditional computer, quantum computers rely on quantum bits—or qubits—which…
On substance, the EU had little to offer Kyiv. With Hungary objecting, the bloc failed to unblock frozen Russian assets as loans for Ukraine. Zelenskyy also met with Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, another increasingly pro-Russia country like Hungary. His Brussels tour began in the European Council. Despite a worsening situation on the…
Even though Scholz, following the U.S. lead, ultimately turned Germany into Europe’s largest contributor of arms to Ukraine — and second overall after the U.S. — it hasn’t been enough for Ukraine to keep Russia on the defensive. (Germany has committed about €11 billion in military aid to Ukraine so far, compared to €57 billion from the U.S.)…
China showed widespread enthusiasm for humanoid robots when several were put on display at an industry expo in Beijing in August, but University of Hong Kong’s (HKU) head of robotics says it will be some time before these machines are ready to take over people’s household chores. “Many [humanoids] are still in development, and there…
HONG KONG/TAIPEI — Beijing should launch a systematic cybersecurity review of Intel’s products in the country because the top U.S. chipmaker “continues to engage in actions that harm Chinese interests and threaten China’s national security,” state-linked Cyber Security Association of China warned on Wednesday. The association is chaired by a former senior official of the…
Navalny died in a high-security penal colony near the Arctic Circle in February, at the age of 47. Russian authorities attributed his death to natural causes, but media reports have claimed that Navalny showed signs of poisoning before his death. While Navalny had seemingly accepted his fate, he did not do so with “contemplative passivity,”…